Language / Adjective/Noun Order? [20]


That makes it LOOK as though if the adjective is of greater importance than the noun, say it first.
There are two old fashioned style telephones on a desk - one is ringing, but which one?
"Pomarańczowy telefon." (ie. not the green one.)
Oh dear! Am I supposed to think of an example where the same the words are reversed in order? I can't think of anything.

Blah blah blah "Telefon pomarańczowy." blah blah blah...
Does it look right anyway?

I don't really know if that's right. I tend to say the words I can remember first, then think of the ones I'm not so sure about.

Work / low pay in poland leads to academic brain drain [11]

... if you like vodka and cabbage...

Language / Common mistakes made by foreigners in Polish [90]


Is this some sort of slow Slavic?

Work / Polish Labor Is Scarce as Workers Go West [60]


You seem to be doing your best to give a far worse impression about us.

USA, Canada / Who will be the best US President for Poland? [15]

I thought Grzegorz had already won.

Or was that just the more important contest in recent times?

Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

I don't miss Kraków at all. But then I don't miss Stockholm, Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatar or Shoeburyness for exactly the same reason.


I sense more than just a little irony in the Finnish legend that it was built in the air above the swamp, then gently lowered down onto it.


I thought we were talking about Peterborough.

News / Eurovision Song Contest: Isis Gee to represent Poland [156]

How long have I got to get the gold lame shirt ready?

UK, Ireland / Entering the UK on just a karta pobytu? [7]

I think it's the British who are the odd ones out (suprise suprise) when we have to take passports everywhere in the EU.

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]


Australians in the UK are definately different to me.
First, I don't have a backpack.
Secondly, I'm not able to drink that much.

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]

How about something like this:

It's all part of a cultural exchange programme by which Australia gets drunken Brits with backpacks, and we get their drunks with backpacks. Is the bit about backpacks really important?

Food / DILL (KOPEREK) - POLAND'S FAVOURITE SUMMER HERB [5]

Dill.

Anethum graveolens
formerly: Peucedanum graveolens

Keep sowing from spring to the middle of summer to keep the supply constant (you'll need this if, like me, you've read the post above and your mouth has started watering). Keep it watered, don't let it bolt (where it puts all its energy into making seed rather than growing more leafy matter).

Actually, I couldn't let myself read all of that post above. I'm too hungry to be able to cope with that much food-talk. Any mention of the seed and its culinary uses?

Just thought I'd add here that it's a member of the Apiaceae (also known as Umbelliferae). This is the plant family that includes carrot, parsley, coriander, fennel, caraway...

Food / POLISH-STYLE FRUIT & VEGETABLE GARDENING [4]


Ugly, but so much more useful than the stalky stuff.


Introduced to Poland in about 1708. Jusrt thought I'd mention that.

Life / "3 Year Tattoo" in Poland? [13]

I'd say between two weeks and six months for a henna tattoo.

Love / Best Man's role at Polish Wedding. [14]

There is a word that I've heard (in, I believe, the second person singular informal imperative) that is quite vulgar, with the meaning 'eat!' or 'drink!'. I won't tell you what it is in case it's the only word anyone gives you. I think I could even put it in the plural probably, but don't encourage me please.

News / How to form political party with Pan Slavic orrientation in Poland? [34]

I'd still like to mention the non-Slavic people who would be subsumed or enclaved by such an idea. Or those who would be under threat from such a large-scale enterprise.

Start with the bigger ones - Hungary, Romania.

Then there are those that Russia may see as its own - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. How about Georgia, maybe Azerbaijan, Armenia.

Then there are the many and various ethnicities that exist within the Russian Federation, many of them precariously. There are too many to name, although before Russian conquest, naming them would have been an even trickier business. Let's just say all of the Finno-Ugrian peoples (with the possible exception of Finland), Tatars and other Turkic peoples, various Mongolian, Tungusic and others in the far east.

How would an ethnically delineated Empire view all these people? Because Russia has been anything but benign in this regard when taking in the historical perspective. Okay, so the Slavic Empire is going to be good too all of her non-Slavic citizens, right?

So now you have to persuade Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Slovenia, blah blah blah... that the EU is no good - forget about the EU money, the free market ideals and so on and look to your good old pals in Russia.

The pig of peace will fly from Moscow to visit Slavia's happy European neighbours: the Republic of Germanic Peoples with its capital in... London! The Roman Empire too!

Food / What's is in this Polish can? [29]


Paddy fields - Do they really grow rice in Ireland?


French letters - euphemism for condoms.
French fancies - I think they are neither French nor fancy. Mr. Kipling sucks.

Food / What's is in this Polish can? [29]

Hang on everyone - I think I might have mistaken pate for putty. Which is the one that tastes better?


You mean the a wearing a pointy hat, the e with a beret?
Feeling sorry for not using french letters could mean realising the girlfiriend is pregnant
Feeling sorry for not using fancy French letters - go to the kinky thread.
Feeling sorry for not using French fancies - Mr. Kipling does make exceedingly good cakes.

I shall stop now.

Food / What's is in this Polish can? [29]


Exactly. Pate is that stuff you use for fixing glass into window frames.

High class tins have ring-pulls whereas low-class tins require openers.
I really can't stand cheap and nasty tin openers, but who has a top of the range tin opener for opening cheap and nasty tins?

News / How to form political party with Pan Slavic orrientation in Poland? [34]


I might want a serious answer to a question like 'How can I breed rabbits with foxes?'
Slavs are divided. Okay, like in your own beloved country. A more peaceful example would be what was once Czechoslovakia. Did they decide that they might as well stay unified (you know: 'All Slavs together' kind of thing)?

What can you do to persuade the overwhelming majority of people in the so-called Slavic countries that there should be just one country for them (governed from Moscow, I presume). What can you do?

Dream on.

News / How to form political party with Pan Slavic orrientation in Poland? [34]

Poles and Russians, Czechs and Slovaks, Serbs and Croats... they all love eachother dearly already, so I can't see it being much of a problem.

UK, Ireland / Magda Pniewska's "Last Breath" Heard Over Mobile [11]

A terrible tragedy, all the more upsetting, even traumatising for her sister, having to hear the last moments of life. May she rest in peace.

May also, whoever is guilty receive due punishment. It is a shame we have to discuss this at the same time as speaking of the victim of this horrific crime - how should the prepetrator be punished? There is so much more to the life of the victim. She wasn't a victim until she was senselessly murdered. She had a life, a job, family and friends. To be reduced to the status of victim just belittles how devastating the loss of an innocent life is.

But we are also discussing the penalty.

I do not believe in the death sentence.
Hanging, was the method used in the UK back in the bad old days. It used to, I believe, be the preferred method in the US until they deemed it inhumane or something. Different ways of tying the noose have different results. It can be very quick or very slow.

But, tell the family of someone who's been executed that it was a mistake and that they weren't guilty - it was someone else who still roams free.

Should death row be long and drawn out, and therefore very expensive? Or should it be short and with little time for all those expensive legal procedings involving appeals, retrials and so on?

But before anyone says 'he was caught red-handed', what about those who are not? Those for whom the evidence convinces a jury beyond all reasonable doubt, but then turns out not to have revealed the truth? Do we change the legal system to have different kinds of guilty?

He seems guilty enough, but better not despatch him just in case.
Beyond all reasonable doubt.
He definately did it, I saw it with my own eyes and it really really was him.

Language / Genitive case ("nie ma nic" vs "nie ma niczego") [71]

Something can mean something. It just could mean something else as well.

UK, Ireland / iMMIGRATION: The Unspoken Truth [7]

Does it snow in the summertime in Poland?

Language / Using e or ę at the end of words [12]

So as -e and -ę sound the same (with many speakers, so I believe), is it advisable to include the word ja, on, ona, or whoevers name it is doing the verb to avoid ambiguity.


* Donkey consults the Bible for its various plague references *

Language / Numbers in the Polish Language [39]


Good. I think Krzysztof's post afterwards cleared something up.
Today I have learnt something and it's only twenty to eleven.

Work / Horticulture/Landscape design - opportunities in Poland [17]

Later.

* Donkey performs the secret horticultural handshake, secateurs having previously been carefully put to one side *

There is this thread for further reading:
Horticulture in Poland

Work / Horticulture/Landscape design - opportunities in Poland [17]

For frosts, I have read about an invention from somewhere quite bizarre like Uruguay or Paraguay - a kind of chimney with a fan that draws cold air from just above the ground upwards. I believe they use it in fruit growing in South America (and probably various other places by now if it's effective).


I started working in horticulture by mistake, but I found I really enjoyed it, so I didn't leave and do something else after four months like I had intended. Ten years, some gardening at home, some drudgery with a lawnmower for other people's gardens, a lot of reading and so on later...

Work / Horticulture/Landscape design - opportunities in Poland [17]

Bananas are well adapted to strong winds. It shreds their leaves but they stay in one piece and don't seem to really mind too much.

Work / Horticulture/Landscape design - opportunities in Poland [17]

No, I'm not in Poland. If I had the time, money, inclination, language skills and ability to leap into doing something new, I probably would be.

My ornamental banana was an Ensete ventricosum.
Try using the thing called 'Attach a file'.
Now, people of Poland, take a look at this and tell yourselves you want one despite the climate!

Edit: It takes try after try resizing the ******* before I can get it to work.
2nd edit: Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii' are like buses. You wait for ages, then two come as the same time.

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  Almost a banana
  
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  A banana almost
  

Language / What is the most annoying thing about non-native Polish speakers? [90]

The crazy thing is, when my student here gets excited, he does already talk with a lisp.
luvvy jubbly in english means Very nice, but in polish ' nice arse'