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osiol   
6 Dec 2007
Language / Why do people want to study Polish? [90]

I do quite a good demonstration of the 'th' sound.
If you pull your bottom lip out of the way with your fingers, the placement of the tongue becomes a lot easier to see. It also helps to show that it is not, as far too many English people fink, the same as 'F'. It does make you look a bit weird.

Describe it as an 'S' with a lithp inthtead.
osiol   
6 Dec 2007
Life / Is drinking water in Poland good? [96]

you can see all sorts of sediment and build-up

Let's start a geology of Poland thread and find out where the chalk is.

Hard water does this to your kettle. Where I live the water is so hard it comes out of the tap in chunks.
osiol   
6 Dec 2007
UK, Ireland / 13,000 Polish births this year, in the UK [180]

what about if i said that i dont want any bloody scottish or english living in spain ?

I feel sorry for you. A lot of them are the ones I'd be glad not to see again.
Some people claim they don't cost the Spanish economy anything. I doubt this to be true.
Should I dare to ask for your thoughts on this?
osiol   
6 Dec 2007
UK, Ireland / 13,000 Polish births this year, in the UK [180]

The governemtn forecasted that 40,000 poles would come to the uk

You trust all projected figures from the government?

if all the poles left britain we would be fine just like before the poles were here (which was only a couple Of years ago

Suddenly a hell of a lot of job vacancies and no-one there to take them all.

Are so arrogant to think that these polish migrants are holding the british economy (which is ne of the worlds strongest) together

The economy is strong because of what is available to it due to its pragmatic approach.
osiol   
6 Dec 2007
Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]

in Moscow many years ago and my Polish girl friend at the time, had bad tooth ache. She explained to me that in Poland

Don't go to a Polish dentist because a man on the internet said someone else said to him that they are sadists!

Mine is a damn sadist...

Oh well!
osiol   
6 Dec 2007
UK, Ireland / 13,000 Polish births this year, in the UK [180]

All our lives? I think I first paid tax when I was a small child buying a plastic toy (VAT included) with my pocket money at the age of about 5. How was I paying then for people who arrived in this country 26 years later?

And if someone is living here legally, they are paying tax and that gives them the right to the services available to them for as long as they are living here, paying taxes.
osiol   
6 Dec 2007
Life / Brits moving to live in Poland [88]

wheater is crap

What's that? Someone or something that does wheat?

cusine is crap

One of the best things about the place.

roads crap

The quality driving can be bad, but not all the roads.
osiol   
6 Dec 2007
UK, Ireland / 13,000 Polish births this year, in the UK [180]

Today, 09:35
not to mention poles get their tax rebated to them when they leave their country.

Re: Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education?

Dec 3, 07, 14:15
they get all the tax they paid back when they leave.

You still haven't explained this one.
osiol   
5 Dec 2007
History / WW2: Britain Declares War on Germany to Save Poland [290]

The English

Who are they?

Our great nation stood up to the evil

The English nation, which is a part of the United Kingdom.

God save the Queen!!

Who came to the throne in 1952 (or was it '53?)
osiol   
5 Dec 2007
Language / Why do people want to study Polish? [90]

If English is already the first foreign language many people around the world choose to learn and English is your mother tongue, what language do you decide to learn. People speak of Mandarin as a good choice due to its number of speakers and rising power. But I'm not going to need Mandarin. I'm not about to start dealing with or trading with China - I live in a small town in England and I grow plants for a living. Poland is pretty much the furthest away I expect to ever go on holiday.

French? Could be useful, but having learnt some at school and for the purposes I can imagine I might need it, a tourist phrasebook is probably the most I will need. Similarly with German (although I learnt next to nothing at school).

So if I'm not going abroad much, why not learn a commonly used language in the British Isles. Welsh would be fun to learn, but as there are no monolingual Welsh speakers, that would be merely an exercise in finding out what the locals are saying about me in shops and pubs when I visit remote parts of Wales.

So non-native languages spoken in Britain. I'd say the most useful one these days has to be Polish. There are so many Polish people here and I've worked with quite a few. The people working here from other parts of the EU are not just Polish, but as there is some mutual intelligibility with Czech and Slovakian (speakers of which are in much smaller numbers), Polish is the winner.
osiol   
5 Dec 2007
Language / Why do people want to study Polish? [90]

Quoting: osiol
Not here.

meaning where?

Not me.

because it's there

I could have chosen French - there's a lot of it about in the world, and opportunities for learning it are quite easily available, but no thanks.

Portuguese (this is the one I go on about more) - listening to a lot of Brazilian music, I want to know what they're going on about. So I could have tried, but...

Finnish - all the words are too long and I don't know any Finns (any more).
German - not my cup of tea. I have friends who do speak German though. I'll leave it to them.
Polish - plenty of Polish people around these days, whether I go to work, the pub or wherever. With people being there to be amazed or amused or just to provide some help along the way.
osiol   
4 Dec 2007
Language / Why do people want to study Polish? [90]

1. descendants of Poles who emigrated to other counties want to speak the language of their fathers

Not here.

2. Europeans (esp. Brits) want to speak Polish to be able to communicate with Poles who settle in their countries (?)

Partly.

3. Polish is randomly chosen by people who want to study any foreign language (but it would be rather odd because Polish grammar is so difficult that they could choose less complicated language to study:D)

I just like learning stuff. Everyone should be able to speak more than one language.
Who said anything should be easy?

4. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
osiol   
4 Dec 2007
Language / Names for days of the week and their meaning in Polish [15]

what do you mean 'deal with'?

Did the day once start at a different time of day?
Some cultures used sunrise, sunset, maybe even midday?

Is there a word that sometimes means the day or evening before something?
osiol   
4 Dec 2007
Language / Names for days of the week and their meaning in Polish [15]

I'm wondering how Polish deals with (or perhaps rather, dealt with) eves.

Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Halloween (All Hallows' (Saints') Eve) and so on.
I'm not sure, but I think the eve is the same as evening, and that the day was once reckoned to start at sunset rather than midnight.
osiol   
3 Dec 2007
USA, Canada / USA, the nation of immigrants [30]

Not true... people pass down customs and traditions from their countries of origin for many generations

Some do. I accept that. I'll even go as far as to say some communities hang on to traditions that get lost back in the old world, but by and large, I'm not so sure. As an example: many 'Irish' Americans seem to have very little understanding of the situation in both the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland with regards to religion, the economy and so on.

Maybe it's different in the UK

Some communities, especially those originating in Southern Asia remain culturally in their place of origin. Many other communities are too small to keep language and customs alive.
osiol   
2 Dec 2007
Language / Conjugate TO BE in polish for me? [37]

Btw, I thought you were fluent in Polish?

I'm rubbish in Polish. The future is something I haven't even started yet!

'there will be aubergines and cheese'

Yes.
Thanks.
osiol   
2 Dec 2007
UK, Ireland / Poles in Hatfield and Luton!?!?! [17]

Not on screen, but at home it raised a chuckle.

This Jonathan chap's best bet is to check out some St. Albans pubs. Any sensible Polish person living in Hatfield will spend their social time there. There is very little to do in Hatfield.
osiol   
2 Dec 2007
Language / Conjugate TO BE in polish for me? [37]

Where does this word bakłażan keep coming into the equassion for?

Wherefore?
I like it. Almost as much as I like its English equivalent.
That is almost as much as I like the vegetable itself.
I also think it makes quite a neutral word to use in examples.

polishgirltx

Thanks.
Some aubergine for you!