News / English vs. Polish hostility [323]

One of the masons was drummer in Pink Floyd.


Particularly when we had a football match England + 1 German vs. Poland. They one. Aargh!

UK, Ireland / PASSPORTS FOR POLISH PEOPLE TO COME TO ENGLAND [103]


Oh no! Like when a copper caught me cycling on a pavement aged 12?

(I was 12, not the pavement - that was at least 14)

Life / Smoking in bars or restaraunts in Poland. This nasty habit continues... [27]

I was in a pub a while ago.
People were eating chips.
All I could smell was the stench of grease and cheap vinegar!
Tobacco smells nice and sweet.

I smoke, but don't like it when I'm eating.
Restaurants maybe. Pubs no.

Life / Smoking in bars or restaraunts in Poland. This nasty habit continues... [27]


That's nasty. Pub gardens in my neck of the woods are rarely big enough for a rule like that.

Bit if it's possible in Ireland where it rains most of the time...

In Poland, I've drunk more outdoors than indoors.

Feedback / Deleting a member [23]


Not just for you.
This is a public forum.
I know those whom I've heard complaining about 'liberals' and whom I haven't.

Feedback / Deleting a member [23]


Liberal-ISM is not a politcal party. It is an ideology.
You get to say what you want - others let you.
That is liberal.

The people who complain about 'Liberals' are narrow-minded people preying on the narrow-mindedness (and greed) of others.

Feedback / Deleting a member [23]

That is not liberalism.

News / English vs. Polish hostility [323]


Yawn.

Feedback / Deleting a member [23]


What are you going on about?

Feedback / The issue of [not] writing in Polish on the forums (part 2) [45]

Here is an example:

Someone in the US wants to find out about their Polish heritage, yet doesn't speakl Polish
Someone in the UK is trying to learn Polish, but is still a beginner.
Someone in Australia wants to know more about Pierogi.
A Finn who speaks Enlgish wants to learn some Polish swear-words.
A Polish person wants to practice English.

On a forum with an English name.

By the way, it's not like anyone doesn't like having Poles around (with one obvious exception).
Many people (most probably) are at least slightly Polish.
For consistency's sake and to hold the site together as a creible forum, it has to be based in one language.

Life / Smoking in bars or restaraunts in Poland. This nasty habit continues... [27]


Right next to the egg sandwiches room.

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]


What? about a quarter Germanic, the rest French, Danish, Latin, Greek, Turkish, Hindi, Italian...

I attempted to speak a bit of Germany last time, but all the Polish I'd been learning and practising made me forget any German I ever knew (very little).

Love / POLISH SIBLINGS SLEEPING TOGETHER! [172]

Could be as inbred as a family of Norfolk bakers.

UK, Ireland / Do Poles integrate well into British society? [18]

Those who stay in a large group of their own community will always find it easire not to integrate.
I've met a few Polish people who go it alone, usually to get a better job, and they seem to find integrating much easier.

It's one thing to risk moving to another countrym
but another thing to risk moving into a different culture.


You're not selling DVDs of your work?

Language / Polish Present Tense [16]

Ivonka and all who have made corrections,
this is just the kind of thing I like to find on PF.
It saves so much time trawling through the couple of books I try to learn from
(which are usually missing when I want them).
Even better than Admin's old guide to swearing!

With tenses, it's nice to know that something in Polish is actually more straight forward than English!

Life / Smoking in bars or restaraunts in Poland. This nasty habit continues... [27]

My brother, when in lived in Ireland, liked the smoking ban.
He said it was a great way of meeting girls. You pop outside for a cigarette, get talking, and you can actually hear them (unlike inside).

In the UK, bouncers at clubs seem to use the ban as an excuse to be nasty to anyone having a smoke within 10m of the building.

The irony is, quite a few smokers (myself not included) like the band because it will help them give up,
and many non-smokers don't like it because they have to freeze their *******s off standing outside with their mates who are smoking.
Although, I actually prefer being outdoors (that's why I work there), especially in the cold (not so much in the rain).
I haven't had a lock-in at my favourite pub in the village since the ban came in.

Genealogy / Maluka - searching for roots [7]

We respond, but do we have the answers?

Of course! Someone will have the answers!

Life / I'm about to move to Szczecin, Poland. I'm Muslim, black. [37]

There have been black people in southern Iran for a couple of hundred years.
Some Asian people (certainly in the UK) describe themselves as black (as in non-European or Oriental).

There is not much familiarity with people of different hues in Poland.
I'd hope that most people wouldn't think it a problem.

Language / Correct Polish spelling [69]


Oh!

It's just that other than in 'oh' and 'ah', the letter h after a vowel is not used.
In words like 'verandah' it is there because it was there in the language from which it was borrowed.

Language / Correct Polish spelling [69]


Please don't pronounce the h's
Each of the vowel letters are all vowels, not dipthongs.
The ie in pies is a kind of dipthong, like the ye in yes.
Using the letter h after a vowel, I think, only makes it harder to understand.

Language / Correct Polish spelling [69]

I agree.
Children are much more receptive to foreign languages.
At the age of 5, he should be able to pick up quite a lot quite easily.
For words he's less likely to pick up from his peers, pictures would be a better bet.
Trying to use Polish yourself may lead him into expecting you to use Polish you don't know.

Language / Correct Polish spelling [69]

Osiol = Donkey.

There should be a line through the L, making it sound like an English W. (or like a typical SE England L when there's no vowel after it)

The SI is pronounced like the Enlgish SH.

Osh-o-w

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]


I have heard that it's not a very popular subject - they's rather be learning Spanish, French or German.
But in Wales, their language is more popular now than it's been for a couple of hundred years.
I met an Irish girl in a Welsh pub. She was shocked at how everyone, young and old, were speaking Welsh.
But it is also true that there are no monolingual Welsh speakers.
It is not in the same category as Polish, the learning of which has far more uses.

History / Memories of the Polish communist era [115]


Maybe this is the solution:


Coventry.

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]

The strongest Celtic language in the world today.

Love / I really like this Polish guy....what to do next?? [76]


Nothing wrong with that?


Nothing to lose.

You could try a nice Polish phrase.
Think of something, somebody here will translate it for you.

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]


Mae'n hyfridd heddiw.

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]


I chose French over German because I had a head start learning it in Junior school.
If they'd offered any language in the world, back then I'd probably have chosen Welsh!
(No particular reason!)

No matter what language you learn, I'd be interested to hear anyone say they were worse off for learning it.
Even if it is Welsh! (No offence to the Welsh, but you do all speak English...
until I enter the pub when I'm on holiday there!)

News / Air-show accident in Poland [81]

To change the subject slightly,

It is a shame that the British media seems to be incapable of reporting anything from abroad
(except the obvious exception of Isreal & Iraq)
Unless they speak English. Even then, there's not much.
I even listen to the BBC World Service (for UK residents, it's the BBC Insomniac Service)
The news here is far too Brittanocentric. (Like the new word? It's one of mine.)

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]

I see. Most of the Germans I've known have either come from the northwest or Berlin.
I like the word 'Meerschweinchen', though possibly not in Franconian!