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Joined: 21 Sep 2006 / Male ♂
Last Post: 14 Mar 2010
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Posts: Total: 64 / In This Archive: 30
From: Włocławek/Łódź, Poland
Speaks Polish?: Yes
Interests: Sci-fi, fantasy, math, writing, D&D

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dziadek   
2 Oct 2006
Food / favorite polish recipes? [65]

I like kopytka ("hoofs"), the potato dumplings. Especialy covered with melt butter, crumbs and sugar... yum:)
dziadek   
3 Oct 2006
Language / Every language is unique [2]

There does'nt exist a language that would'nt have its own, unicue and non-translateable sentences. In this topic i would like to share with that information and i would apreciate that if you too would share with sentences (even jokes) you know.

The first sentence (for a start) is a not-so-well-known polish joke:

"Na gałęzi siedzą dwa gołębie; jeden grucha a drugi jabłko"
literally it means:
"Two pidgeons are sitting on a branch; the first one warbles, the second apple"

the spot, where is this non-translatable thingy is a word "grucha", which not only means "warbles" but is also known as "pear" (normaly said "gruszka" instead of "grucha")

So the entire sentence would sound:
"Two pidgeons are sitting on a branch; the first one pear, the second apple"

What is most fun in this joke is the fact, that even in the polish language it makes no sense:)
(accualy nothing else is funny in it...and that makes polish language so special :) )

Hope anyone has better idea than mine, both english and polish sentences apreciated.
dziadek   
5 Oct 2006
News / Poles "perfected" the US dollar [3]

The popular polish saying "Polak potrafi" (a Pole can do) which has roots in many talents that poles have. There were many incidents that made from an "average pole" a comical stereotype. Not many know that the most perfect fake of the US dollar banknote was made by the group of the polish criminals. But scientists found the way to recognize the fake:

The real US dollar had minor imperfections in the print; on some banknotes the print was slightly in the other places than on the other. Poles just tried to make it to perfectly and thus they made an error. But the most popular stereotype about poles (and other slovac nations, especially russia) says that "Even if the mortal portion for an average human being of the alcohol is 4 permilles, it does'nt refer to Poles and Russians" and IT IS TRUE i heard about an accident that happened on road: the polish police patrol had caught a person who had 13 permilles (i'm absolutely honest, really) in his blood and he even was RIDING ON A BIKE. It was a great shock for the policemen. They took him later to a hospital in a fear of his life. There are many other interesting facts about Poland but it would take quite a while for me to write this all and it wouldn't be even a 1% of all i heard & know. Hope you all changed the attitude towards all poles and you'll still dig for all those interesting facts.

See ya!
dziadek   
6 Oct 2006
News / Poles "perfected" the US dollar [3]

Poles don't have only talents in criminality and alcohol. For instance my fathers friend, who is electronics specialist knows a method to reset the computers installed in cars which are non-stop checking the status of a vehicile. You know- the exact number of car accidents and other information about the damages and repairs that were done on that car. Thanks to that method he could sell them for a price of a new car even if it had quite number of years drove. When he showed it to some german car salesman who had many those computerized cars in a stock, he (the german) immediately wanted to know how he did that, he even wanted to give him 'bout 7 his best cars for this information, but fathers friend did'nt wanted them- he was just observing this poor guy begging for that priceless information.

Yup. When a pole knows something- he knows it well
dziadek   
22 Nov 2006
News / Mine disaster in Poland [23]

There was just now said in the news, that there isn't any chance to rescue those people

Hope that it isn't true...
dziadek   
3 Dec 2006
Language / Polish Language Pronunciation - Example Words and Phrases [220]

uzdrowienie- "ooz-dro-vie-nieh"
odrodzenie- "odd-rod-ze-nieh"

Raciborski- "ruh-chee-bor-skee"

it doesn't sound exact 'cause it is difficault to find a word or a letter in english that sounds similar to "ci" which sounds like "ć"
dziadek   
19 Dec 2006
Life / How many people really know English in Poland? [53]

I guess about 80% or even more of teenagers haves English lessions at schools

Yep. Nowadays polish education system is strict on teaching poles foreign languages
-I started learning english when i was at kindergarden.
dziadek   
9 Jan 2007
Language / Conjugate TO BE in polish for me? [37]

I am- Ja jestem
You are (singular)- Ty jesteś
He is- On jest
She is- Ona jest
It is- Ono/ To jest
We are- My jesteśmy
You are (plural)- Wy jesteście
They are (males)- Oni są
They are (women/ children)- One są
dziadek   
15 Nov 2007
Language / Using of numbers in these examples [6]

It depends on if the word is masculine, feminine or neuter.

For instance a book ("Książka") is feminine so we use "jedną",

for masculine we use "jednego" and for neuter- "jedno"
dziadek   
14 Jan 2008
Life / Problems with Gadu-Gadu Settings [24]

the sms window pops-up only when you, yourself wave a status "Niedostępny". Change it and you should be able to chat. The status button is in the bottom left corner of the gg window
dziadek   
10 Apr 2008
Life / Dungeons & Dragons - big in Poland?/Who here plays it [45]

My Nickname is the name i gave my Ranger.

I also played as a ranger. Our team played for few months and stopped, but our DM plans to return to the game soon... i just can't wait for that moment
dziadek   
12 Apr 2008
Life / Dungeons & Dragons - big in Poland?/Who here plays it [45]

Our DM gave us an Uber-equipement planning that we lose it in the meantime. But he didn't have luck and his constant tries of killing us were one big failure. He even send once on us a whole army, but the only reasult was that, that we earned FOUR levels in ONE game, even though it is against the rules.
dziadek   
13 Apr 2008
Life / Dungeons & Dragons - big in Poland?/Who here plays it [45]

I remember one (of the many) priceless moment- it was near the end of our campaign:
Our party's human rouge (who hates elves, but unfortunately us- other three members of the party- were elves) found once a strange ring and put it on finger before giving our party's sorcerer a chance to check it for curses. It turned out that the ring indeed was cursed and the owner of the other (who we didn't knew) could easely kill him

(the rouge) from any distance. After hearing this, he tried to remove it, but the curse didn't allow him to do so. Having no other way he tried to cut off his finger- but his will check didn't succeed. Then he asked us instead to try cutting of his finger- only my ranger dared to try, but when it came to swinging the sword- i rolled a '2' and cut off his entire palm... I planned to keep it as a trophy but (too bad) the priests took care of that injury (after removing the ring)...
dziadek   
14 Apr 2008
Life / To all of you who are Polish - where did you learn English? [64]

Started learning english in kindergarden, then in the begining of the elementary school from cartoon network, a bit in the last classes of elementary, and currently in high school and by visiting english-only websites... i think that's all...
dziadek   
14 Apr 2008
Language / x=a kiss sign. What's a kiss sign for the Polish? [48]

I noticed that english countries have a diffrent ditto mark than in Poland:
you have a " while we have a -||-

do you guys know perhaps what other simbols are used in the world?