News / The past and future of Poland. Poland is lost. [113]


funny that this picture comes from The Bounce Magazine and refers to comments based on the character of Oliver Twist. Wasn't he an English character described by an English author and concerning the English poor?

Life / I AM BLACK. SHOULD I MOVE TO POLAND? [107]


yes, but we listened to Beethoven and read Shakespeare's love sonnets while doing that ;)

Language / Cases, Genders, Nominative, Instrumental...WHY? [40]


I don't think anybody ever suggested that.
In addition, Polish noun inflection system is perhaps not even the most complicated one, when you consider Finnish for instance.

Complexity of a language does not depend on one or two aspects of its grammar. In case of Polish it's just overloaded with irregularities, or regularities that are so complex that they escape often less complicated foreign semantic and grammatical sensitivity.

Love / Polish men and Filipino women [73]


with that much experience they must have know how to act innocent ;)

Love / Polish men and Filipino women [73]

I see, so they've been around, huh?
But then, lageiwniki isn't a metroplis.
GOTCHA BACK

Love / Polish men and Filipino women [73]


you've been around, huh? ;)

Love / Polish men and Filipino women [73]


too late, now you have to pay the price and stick around with Texans driving big pickup truck to compensate for something else :)

Love / Polish men and Filipino women [73]


I haven't had ... ahem... pleasure to check personally, but I guess there is a grain of truth in every myth.

Love / Polish men and Filipino women [73]

nope, not the lagiewniki studs. You might say they specialize in Central Luzon chicks.

Love / Polish men and Filipino women [73]


if he's from lagiewniki then he may like philpinas, but only if they are from Central Luzon.

Love / Polish men and Filipino women [73]


Which part of Cracow?

Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]


actually, it was first bohemian, and in the end it is Polish yet again.

Berlin is next :)


seems like that topic does not offer a whole lot of material for discussion after all ;)

Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]


I wrote it was Polish before it was German. Your post doesn't prove otherwise.


Oh, don't mention it.


What are you smoking?
I didn't expel anybody from anywhere, except for my cat from my bed.

Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]


I have. Have you?


It's all a question of how far back in time we go.

Jews were out of the area as a Jewish state for almost 2000 years. And even when they came to what is now Israel, it wasn't exactly an empty space a few thousand years ago. Israelis did quite a bit of ethnic cleansing of their own before they were able to settle there. I guess in today's terms it is sometimes referred to as crimes against humanity.

Language / Hail Mary in Polish [5]

wikisource.org/wiki/Hail_Mary
wikisource.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer - Lord's Prayer

Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]


yehudi simply chose to ignore the fact that Wroclaw was Polish before Germans got hold of it. So in fact his statement bears little weight, as Germans didn't lose anything. They just failed to hold on to what wasn't theirs in the first place. Lucky bastards got to keep Berlin though.

Language / Polish language problems (orthography) [47]


Easy.
The grammatical errors are in bold font.

History / Jews-Officers in the Polish Armed Forces 1939-1945 [52]


I think your shame is misplaced, or at least unbalanced. Haven't you ever heard the term "chosen people". That's what some (not sure how many) Jews consider themselves. So in short, to me Poles, and many other nations, simply reject the alleged superiority of Jews.

Language / Confusion about genitive plural [30]

other than metaphors (such as sciana deszczu and similar) "mur" often suggests a masonry structure.

murować - to lay bricks, to erect a brick wall

Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]


I don't think it's gonna happen. For Israel to survive as a Jewish state they have to continue their current policies against Arabs living within Israel's borders. If they stop and opt for democracy instead then Israel will not survive as a Jewish state. So it's either democracy or permament state of war.

IMO, about the only, albeit slim, chance to prolong Israel's Jewishness would be if all Jews from around the world moved to Israel. That won't happen either, and for one simple reason - Israel cannot survive economically and thus militarilly on its own and without foreign... ahem... aid.

Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]


Gods do not pick anybody because gods do not exist.

Here's how it works: first people invent a god or gods and than make him/her/them do whatever is suitable to the god's creators. Praise the Lord!

Language / Confusion about genitive plural [30]


Can he really get any worse. I'd think a little incident like that could only help him.

Language / Pronouns, the meaning of "Wy"? [7]

In some dialects, "wy" is still sometimes used in reference to a single person, usually addressing a mature man or woman. This usage is fading away but it can still be heard used by older people.

Language / Using colors to describe an object [14]


First, it's telewizor.

Second, bialo-czarny in reference to TV or TV-set was ALWAYS used to describe the transmission technology, not the color of the box. Except in your home, it turns out.

News / On the verge of new and ideal world [63]


The reasons for poverty may be numerous.
As for the coffee, did you steal it or someone gave you theirs?



I couldn't find any knights in shining armor riding white horses. Were the horses cooked and eaten, perhaps?

Work / Americans teaching english...your help please! [51]


I think you could pay off $15 in a day. Just get a squeegee and find a good set for traffic light during rush hour.

Btw. what's your major?
Sounds like something awfully unique, for 15 bucks ;-)

Feedback / how can i log out??? [19]


You're not.

Think of it as a TV set:

The ON button is at the front, the OFF in behind.

Language / How to learn Polish ASAP? (speaking is my priority) [22]


Are you sure?
I would have thought they learn by first listening, and listening and then listening some more, before finally they start uttering the first clumsy words. Depending on gender and other factors, that takes usually between 1 and 2 years.

I'm not sure if it is possible to learn a language, including a foreign one, by first speaking it. How does the learner know what to say?

Language / How to learn Polish ASAP? (speaking is my priority) [22]

Unless you live among Poles I can't see how you can learn Polish, or any other language for that matter, without learning how to read/write in that language.

Language / Polish Translation software [24]

I'm pretty sure that is you spend $100 on whiskey or beer, and drink it all in a day, or two, then you will be as good a translator as any software based translators advertised as good ones. No such thing exists between Polish and English, save for individual words and some trivial clusters of words.