Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]


... in the bathroom?

For a moment, I read that as 'Hang gliding saves electricity' - I suppose it could do.

Language / Polglish - mixture of Polish and English [34]

Another couple of ideas:

Read English words as if they are Polish, ie. using the Polish spelling conventions.
Read Polish words as if they are English, blah blah blah.

Go-od eede oR v-hat?

Language / Polglish - mixture of Polish and English [34]


Zależy ile English and how much język Polish i jakie they're balanced.

You could completely jumble it up.
You could try using English laden with a heap of Polish grammar.
Or you could just use English with a few Polish words substituting English ones where it's easy to do so.

Finally, you could just have English with a little bit of swearing in Polish mingled in.

Language / Most commonly used letters in Polish [37]


Aaaaaah! Breathe a sigh of relief.
Well done old chap.


I need to visit my greengrocer and come up with some sort of deal.

Language / misleading differences between Polish and English languages [92]

Who, you? - sounds like an innocent question in English, but like a nasty insult in Polish
Cheaper may mean less expensive in English, but in Polish, again, you might sound like you're saying something slightly rude.
Słoń is elephant, not swan. Nothing rude about that.


C'est combien - how much is that? - French!

UK, Ireland / National Holiday To Celebrate Britishness Could Be On It's Way [83]


I say anyone else can have it because I certainly don't want it.

Life / Cool Polish names [133]


I thought that for each name, there is often more than one name say per year. You have to get the right one. I think it's the next time their name appears after their birthday.

I don't have a favourite Polish name.

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

Q: What has washing clothes got to do with food?
A: Food fights.

UK, Ireland / National Holiday To Celebrate Britishness Could Be On It's Way [83]


When will I have self-determination? Am I just being greedy? Am I just being individualistic?
Scotland and Wales help to keep the balance of power between Labour and Tory. It looks like if Scotland and Wales waved goodbye, we'd be stuck with the Tories for perpetuity.

Go on Scotland, have a referedum. Then maybe I can have one too.
Liberation for Donkeyland!

Life / Funny Polish/American movies [16]

I've heard of Blaxploitation, but not Polaxploitation Movies.

Love / Meaning of Friendship (my friends is going back to Poland) [57]

I don't rate my friendships. No particular person is my best friend. It has been this way since I started going to a different school to my then best friend (I was about 12). I do have very good friends though, I have lost a few over the years, and gained a lot more. Some of my friends have been girls, but I didn't want to have sex with all of them.

Language / Most commonly used letters in Polish [37]

Why did you put 'r' and 'w' in bold?

Language / Most commonly used letters in Polish [37]


Good stuff, Krzysztof.


How about half of that? Or possibly just a fifth?

I'm still going strong with my avoiding putting that thing in my writing.
Nobody saw my tiny slip-up with a bit of luck!

Language / Most commonly used letters in Polish [37]


I can't put any affirmative words (look on your PC's typing tool 'twixt 'W' and 'R' - that button on my PC is now out of bounds), but what I can say is simply: No, I'm not asking for such a vast tract of writing. Too much to ask, I think.

Language / Most commonly used letters in Polish [37]


I was hoping for about a thousand words or so. Too much to ask for?
That's why no carrot.

Language / Most commonly used letters in Polish [37]

From now on, if I post anything in this topic, I will go without using that most common symbol found in my own languag. No - it is difficult. But I might try doing this across the forum.

Good try, Piorun! You could win two carrots for that. Possibly. Though probably not.

UK, Ireland / The Poles are Coming documentary [38]

I've never been violently drunk.
That is unless you look at it from the point of view of the alcoholic beverages - "He's going to kills us all. It's an act of mass beericide."

I still don't have a television so I still can't say anything about the program itself.

Language / Most commonly used letters in Polish [37]

Has there ever been an attempt to translate Georges Perec's novel 'La disparition' into Polish? It is about 300 pages and it is entirely void of the letter 'e'. It has been translated into English, also without using the letter 'e', and I believe, into Spanish where it omits the letter 'a'.

Sometimes I wonder if anyone has actually read it.

If anyone would like to type some stuff here in Polish, without using the letter 'a' (the most commonly used letter), then feel free. Even more shocking (although probably easier) would be trying to write without using the much-loved letter 'z'.

Something tells me no-one is prepared to rise to my challange.

A YEAR'S SUPPLY OF CARROTS FOR THE WINNER!

Language / Most commonly used letters in Polish [37]

Okay, so I shall now answer my own question.
I found the following sequence on the Slovenian language department of Wikipedia.

A I E O N Z W S C R Y T K D P M J U L £ G B H Ą Ę Ó - Ś Ć Ń F Ż X V (Q)

How Polish does that look?
I bet some of you non-Poles were expecting all the vowels to be down the other end with the X, V and Q.

Food / Feeding of Livestock in Poland [13]

What is deemed to be of good enough quality by the powers that be is not necessarily what you would want to eat. My butcher (I hasten to add I don't travel to Poland to buy meat) is of far superior quality to the perfectly legitimate supermarket-quality meat that I occasionally stoop to buying.

It probably depends on how much demand there is for quality meat (as opposed to stuff filled with growth-hormones and water).

Food / Tatar - a raw meat dish [28]

Perhaps originally the recipe depended on the heat generated by the horse (or by the rider - something spicy last night?)
Looks a bit grim to me.

UK, Ireland / Fao Poles living in the UK [107]


No. I do think it looks quite cool on electric guitars.


In capital letters? You're too kind.

UK, Ireland / Fao Poles living in the UK [107]


I care about my country but I don't need to flap a bit of cloth about to prove it.

UK, Ireland / Fao Poles living in the UK [107]

Why be ashamed of your flag? It's just a bit of coloured material.
Why be proud of it too? Again, it's just a bit of coloured material.
And it only represents what people want it to represent.
What were The Who doing posing with Union Flags in the 1960s? Noel Gallagher's Union Flag guitar.
I can harldy see Mr. Gallagher (note the origin of the name) using it to conquer and oppress the Irish.

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


Flatley my dear, I don't riverdance.

News / iPhone to be Released Officially in Poland? [21]

My boss swears by his Mac.
I just swear at my PC.

Love / Polish women are the best!!!!!! [77]


Do I sense the presence of a hen-pecked husband here?

Life / Smoking ban - will this be coming to Poland like other EU countries? [183]


The European way is to put the smokers outside in the rain, and sometimes even shoo them away from the building. Indoor smoking areas looks a bit too civilised.

Language / 'Na pole' or 'na dwor' ? [32]

Thanks, Krzysztof. After I posted, I guessed that was roughly the answer, but it's always nice to have some reassurance sometimes.