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RJ_cdn   
10 Mar 2008
News / Should Polish citizens living abroad have the right to vote in elections [69]

What if they made an active effort to keep up with the politics and current affairs of Poland? It's easy to do now, especially with the use of the Internet.

I am out of the country for 20 years now and do try to keep myself well informed, however I feel that if I participated in polish elections I would be dishonest to myself and to the people of Poland. Just by reading the internet or watching the news you can not, IMO, really know the reality.

They might still care very much about Poland

Yes, but is it enough to make the right judgment?
RJ_cdn   
10 Mar 2008
News / Should Polish citizens living abroad have the right to vote in elections [69]

Every lawful citizen has a right to shape the political scene in his country, even if he doesn't live in this country at the moment

I don't agree with this and I am a Pole still holding polish citizenship. No one who is out of the country for more than 5 years (or a full term between elections) or possibly even never been to Poland should be allowed to vote. Not having a complete knowledge of current events, issues and of course candidates their votes may do more harm than good.
RJ_cdn   
10 Mar 2008
Language / Się and Non-Się [6]

Okayy and what about zmienić?

Same like for ukrywać
RJ_cdn   
10 Mar 2008
Language / Się and Non-Się [6]

ukrywać, ukrywać się, they both mean to hide.

ukrywać - hide something or sombody
ukrywać się - hide yourself, him/her-self (się = -self)
RJ_cdn   
9 Mar 2008
Life / Poland and doctors [37]

I would also suggest that you ask your doctor to write (in English; I am sure there are polish doctors in Malmo so if you can get it in Polish) a history of your illness and what kind of treatment you were getting, so you can bring it with you to Poland and give it a doctor there.
RJ_cdn   
9 Mar 2008
Language / 'Na pole' or 'na dwor' ? [32]

look at the word, na POLE. I guess a Pole would get it

Not really. First time I heard "lets go na pole" my answer was "it will take us 1/2 hr to get there"
RJ_cdn   
7 Mar 2008
Life / You know you're Polish when... ? [111]

You have five kinds of gourmet ketchup in your kitchen cabinet and you put in on everything including scrambled eggs, stake, mashed potatoes and veggies!

That is a typical american way, not polish at all
RJ_cdn   
7 Mar 2008
Language / Understanding Languages [24]

Bottom line-you are wrong, wrong, wrong. There is no such word as oczów

Michal, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about! Here is the prove:
Czy jest wyraz oczów w języku polskim?
Był raczej niż jest, bo dziś mówi się oczu. Jednak np. Benedykt Chmielowski w encyklopedii Nowe Ateny (1745-46) pisał: "Zioła leczące, na ból oczów naturalnie pomagające, wierszem są tu wyrażone", a Ignacy Krasicki w niewiele późniejszych Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadkach (1776): "Nowa postać sytuacji mojej długo nie dała mi oczów zmrużyć". Z późniejszych autorów formy oczów używali m.in. Gojawiczyńska, Iwaszkiewicz, Korczak, Kruczkowski i Makuszyński.

- Mirosław Bańko, PWN
RJ_cdn   
6 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Polish worker's excuse and a vacuum cleaner (UK) [79]

you must remember that Poland and the Poles are at least three hundred years behind other advanced western countries. There are poles who would not know what a vacuum cleaner is. It was the Russian Army in Poland after World War 2 that introduced the Poles to toilet paper.

Michal, thought for the day for you

Don't ever hold your farts in, because if you do it'll travel up your spine into your brain and that's where all your shi*ty ideas come from !!!!
RJ_cdn   
4 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Question for Polish people working in UK? [15]

What the f.ck are you babbling about ?

He is babbling because

thank God that I do know nothing about Poland and let it stay that way.

RJ_cdn   
4 Mar 2008
Travel / Traveling to Tczew [6]

About Tczew en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tczew
Pics of Tczew tczew.zaprasza.eu
Hotel Carina in Tczew
· Single Rooms: 123-203 zł 50-90$ US
· Double Rooms: 166-246 zł 70-110$ US
RJ_cdn   
4 Mar 2008
Language / Jak sie masz -> niezle, doskonale. Wyglada ladnie - grammar questions [45]

whats the real difference>NIC chyba

Actually there is a difference

Zofia jest ładna

In this case you talk about Zofia's physical beauty

Zofia wygląda ładnie.

Here, Zofia may not be beautiful, but, lets say, has a really nice dress on and looks better then usual and you would say
Zofia looks nice (in that dress) - Zofia wygląda ładnie (w tej sukni)
RJ_cdn   
3 Mar 2008
Travel / Traveling to Tczew [6]

where can I stay in Gdansk and Tczew

Hotel in Tczew: hotelewpolsce.com.pl/carina.htm

does anyone know of an interpreter

Try to contact this lady
Mrs. Lucyna Gibas-Jóźwiak (translator: English and German)
Tczew
Email : lucyna.g.j@wp.pl
Tel. : 0600 59 68 61, 058-533 9000
RJ_cdn   
2 Mar 2008
Language / Which case for adjectives? [47]

m , f , n , plural m , plural f/n
Nom miękki miękka miękkie miękcy miękkie
Gen miękkiego miękkiej miękkiego miękkich miękkich
Dat miękkiemu miękkiej miękkiemu miękkim miękkim
Acc miękkiego miękką miękkie miękkich miękkie
Inst miękkim miękką miękkim miękkimi miękkimi
Loc miękkim miękkiej miękkim miękkich miękkich
Voc miękki miękka miękkie miękcy miękkie

ja miękki
ty miękki
on miękki
ona miękka
ono miękkie
my miękcy
wy miękcy
oni miękcy
one miękkie

Please, wait for others to confirm that.
RJ_cdn   
1 Mar 2008
Language / Kupować vs Kupić [27]

will be buying, tak?

yes

will buy?

(Ja) kupię
RJ_cdn   
1 Mar 2008
Language / Kupować vs Kupić [27]

In this case, I think, it will be:

ja będę/ ty będziesz/ on/ona/ono będzie kupować
my będziemy/wy będziecie/ oni/one będą kupować
RJ_cdn   
28 Feb 2008
Genealogy / Polish surname meanings and origins [25]

the meaning of kurowski?

From Ancestry.com
Habitational name for someone from a place called Kurowo or Kurów, named with kur ‘rooster’.
RJ_cdn   
27 Feb 2008
News / Happy Birthday Mr. Fascist (ie. Roman Giertych) [37]

then why friend is calling him that?

Well, he is the God Father of Młodzież Wszechpolska -ultra nationalistic group of youth know to have neo-nazi members.
Młodzież Wszechpolska in Polish
and his father Maciej Giertych is very well known for his views on the subject of Jews and women.
RJ_cdn   
25 Feb 2008
News / What you think about the Polish President, Kaczynski? [53]

Perhaps only to liberal like yourself.

Yes I am very liberal, thats true, but it is also an opinion of the majority of Poles that chose him as the worst president ever. Apparently you are not as well informed as you thought you were.