Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]


Yes, but only a south-eastern English L when it's before a consonant or at the end of a burst of speech (whatever that's called by proper linguists).

But, as you said, that's not particularly hełpfuł for Pawełek here. Unless he's learning Polish and Cockney/South-eastern English (please don't use that flipping Estuary word).

I hope this post has assisted someone from my neck of the łoods instead.

News / Earth Hour - possible in Poland? [62]

When people turn their car engines on five minutes before driving anywhere 'to get it warmed up'. It will heat up quicker if the engine is doing more than just idling. Then the same people choose their car, in part, because of how many miles it does to the gallon, when they frequently run their cars doing ZERO miles to the gallon. Get a bike and turn the lights out when you don't need them.

Life / Polish Fireflies [23]


I was amazed when I saw them when I was twenty five.


But perhaps just a lantern. Batteries? No. Oil? No. Leaves? Probably. At least I don't think they're carnivorous.

Life / Polish Fireflies [23]

I've seen them in Cornwall but nowhere else.
Do they make good pets?

Food / Polish food is making me fat [49]


Experimentation gives rise to innovation. Good luck, sir.

I don't think it's just what you eat, but how you eat it and what you do to burn it all off afterwards. I eat quite a few large breakfasts with very high meat content, but I do manual work so it soon disappears.


You didn't mention pies (hot or cold), sausage and mash, bacon sandwiches, black or white puddings, kippers, roasts (especially pork, lamb, beef, pheasant, with roast tatties and Yorkshire puddings), bread and cheese, bubble and squeak, cauliflower cheese, scones, kedgeree, and so on and so on. British food should be more interesting than it is. A lot has been lost over the years, but a lot also just gets ignored. I'm sure there are some very nice Polish dishes that had British equivalents that died out. We should eat more Polish food over here. So what about worries about getting fat - junk food seems to be far worse. We have more of it here and people are getting fatter all the time.


But not everyone has one, so you reach the stage where you just have to learn to do it for yourself.

Feedback / Forum times? a noob question perhaps... [20]

They actually threw him out of their spaceship because paying all the bills for all his painting and decorating started to get too much for them to cope with.

Feedback / Forum times? a noob question perhaps... [20]

I thought he once claimed to be a Pole living in the US (not a Yank), but I believe he's actually living in a secret base somewhere under the ocean off the coast of Peru and he originally came from Antarctica.

Feedback / Forum times? a noob question perhaps... [20]

It's the time in Peru isn't it?

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]


In the two houses and one flat I have been in in Poland, all three have had the washing machine in the bathroom. I only wish my bathroom was big enough for me to do the same. I don't see why dirty clothes and washing powder should be anywhere near food.


My bread usually lasts less than a day. I eat it all before it gets a chance to go off.

UK, Ireland / The best place to buy a house in the UK [120]

For a Londoner, America has as good-enough access to Birmingham.

UK, Ireland / The best place to buy a house in the UK [120]


What the flippin' heck is that supposed to mean?


But there's some lovely bits in the Lake District.

UK, Ireland / British Flag Will Proudly Fly Above All State Buildings [16]

I'd still like to see the Welsh dragon superimposed on the flag. How cool would that be?

Life / Polish escort services - legal in Poland? [98]

But as more time passes since they replaced it with the Focus, there will be fewer and fewer Escorts that need servicing, whether it is legal or not.

Love / BLACK GUYS POLISH WOMEN [809]


Try not being shallow if you want to accuse someone of being shallow.

You speak such good English though.

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]


... and I have a time machine.

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

G'day G'dañsk.

My Polish teacher kept making me repeat the name Gdańsk again and again as he tried to correct me. Every time I either gave it too much or too little Ń apparently. In the end, he left me with no choice other than to say that the people of Welwyń Gardeń City call it Danzig. Not very nice, I know.

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

Ń sounds more like N and J (the Polish one, not the English one) pronounced kind of at the same time, but with a kind of aftertaste of J.

How to say Gdańsk if you're a beginner or a donkey like me:
Gdansk - NO!
Gdanjsk - YES! (Until somone corrects me).

Travel / AGROTOURISM FARMS [10]

Repeat a word such as 'enough' enough times and gets too much and starts to look wrong.

Enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough...

That last one looks like it was spelt wrong, doesn't it?

Anyway, I stand corrected.

Language / Greetings, to much respect? [23]

What would be a better way of saying 'Hello, everyone'?
I'm thinking more of a cześć than a dzień dobry.

Sorry if this thread was supposed to have been all done and dusted by now.

UK, Ireland / What's So Great About The UK? [416]

Oh yeah, the sarcasm is the flipping best.

The irony ain't so bad either.

Travel / AGROTOURISM FARMS [10]

I'm sure in English this shoud be called one of these two things:

Agritourism
Aggrotourism

Love / BLACK GUYS POLISH WOMEN [809]


Attractive or attracted?
I imagine it depends on how loudly you proclaim your racist views.


Who are you to judge then?


[/quote]
Your opinions you have given seem to declare:
I'm not racist,
but I am racist.

Feedback / CLOSING THE TRANSLATION THREADS [55]

How can a thread be closed? Take a thread. Look at it. How could it possibly be closed? I suppose you could close it back into the sewing box. It might even be an embroidery term I'm not aware of. "This tapestry is nearly complete. All that remains for me to do is to close the thread."

I'd prefer to use a term like 'Tie a knot in the end of thread."

If you have a sticky thread, you might need a trip to the dry-cleaners, but maybe a simple machine wash. Maybe even a handwash, but certainly not if chewing gum is involved.

Posts like this are a disgrace to the forum and members who do such things ought to be punished by the moderation team.

Feedback / CLOSING THE TRANSLATION THREADS [55]

I still want to know about pirates.
Do I really have to start a new thread?

UK, Ireland / The best place to buy a house in the UK [120]


I hadn't ried that one until I saw your post here, so in went my postcode and out came:

K Impoverished Pensioner
48 Poor unemployed without current accounts

But really, where I live is not well off, but it's quite a nice place to live. Honest.

UK, Ireland / The best place to buy a house in the UK [120]

Some people like the architectural style they call 'Urban Brutalism', as seen in lovely towns like Hull and Cumbernauld.

UK, Ireland / The best place to buy a house in the UK [120]


It seems to say the same for a lot of people.
I went further and checked out the ACORN site.

For my postcode:
5 Hard Pressed
O Burdened Singles
52 Council flats, single parents, unemployment

I wasn't entirely sure what all that means, so checked out
the post-code of a very close relative:
1 Wealthy Achievers
A Wealthy Executives
2 Affluent working families with mortgages
I'm still not much wiser having read that. Probably because I have a low level of education and am a single mother in a council falt.

Hmmmm.

UK, Ireland / The best place to buy a house in the UK [120]

Are they talking about where I live or somewhere in inner-city Glasgow?
They don't even sell the Daily Record in my local newsagent.

UK, Ireland / The best place to buy a house in the UK [120]

Where I live, everyone is blonde haired, blue eyed, has the correct number of fingers and toes (on which you can count to eleven-ish).

Actually the bloke over the road has this funny-looking dark skin and tight-curly black hair. I'm sure that UPS van he drives is for delivering drugs (UPS - going up - getting high - see what I mean). We're not worried because we'll be forming a lynch-mob fairly soon - just after I've bought some interior doors off him that he's selling (he probably stole them off a little old white lady who had blonde hair, despite her 96 years and having fought in three world wars for us).

Feedback / CLOSING THE TRANSLATION THREADS [55]

Can I be a 'trusted translator'? I know a few odd phrases, very short sentences and a reasonable number of swear words.