UK, Ireland / Anti-Polish sentiment of England [253]

For no good reason, there is a certain amount of anti-Polish sentiment, both in the UK as well as the US. We have the long standing problem of Polish jokes. Not jokes from Poland, but about Poles which generally are degrading.

I favor legal immigration. As a US citizen, however, I feel US government has failed miserably in its duty to protect our Southern border. Probably 2/3 rds of the yard and lawn work in this area is done by Mexicans. Fifteen years ago, it was done by American teenagers and college students. Those teenagers are still looking for jobs. There's a lot of anger by US carpenters, tile workers, painters, roofers, etc. who see wages being under cut and jobs not available.

I'm sure many UK workers feel the same way about jobs not being available and seeing wages being under cut. The big difference, however, the immigrants or guest workers in the UK are legally there, and generally paying proper taxes.

Life / Secondary school choices in Poland [11]


Not a chance. Maybe the embassy.

Life / What is the easiest way to get to IKEA in Warsaw (from downtown)? [15]


Do you have to be on key?

News / China to buy 150 helicopters from Poland [47]


How could Russia guarantee the quality of Polish made products?

These Polish helicopters have an excellent reputation.

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

Zespół rockowy - how would one pronounce "rockowy" in Poland?

Is pronounced as the English word "rock" followed by -owy such that spelled as a pure Polish, it might be "rakowy"?

Is pronounced like the Polish word "rok" such as "rokowy?"
Or, do they say "rotzkowy?"

Where's the accent, second to last?

Thanks.

Love / BLACK GUYS POLISH WOMEN [809]

Do the women in your mosque have to wear burkas? Or do you simply keep them, barefoot, pregnant and without a driver's license?

Love / Pornographic Polish magazines [65]


Many, many church going married men are into a great deal more than just buying porn. Some like the former governor of New York, spend thousands of dollars on a high priced hooker. Others, like the Idaho senator, play footsie in a public men's room. Some chase teenage choir girls. Others do worse.

If you have children in the house, and he has left this out, that was not smart at all. No kids in the house, then as others have mentioned, he may telling you something about spicing up your relationship.

Your mother-in-law may not have realized what was in the magazine.

Your husband is not evil because he looked at a magazine with some porn in it. It's a rare, all most not existent, guy who won't take a peep.

A straight forward non-agrumentative conversation with husband is the best thing you can do.

Polonia / German nation - degradation or just deviation? Your opinions? [66]


I think you want particular (конкретный, особый) rather than peculiar (странный) although English definitely has its peculiarities as does Russian.

Language / What is the most annoying thing about non-native Polish speakers? [90]


Welcome to the "global world."

Two Polish friends of mine said they were walking behind a beautiful girl in Rome, one commented in Polish "Co za ladna dupa" and the girl turned around and said, "Tak, ale nie dla wszystkich." ["What a lovely butt." "Yes, but it's not for everyone."]

Polonia / German nation - degradation or just deviation? Your opinions? [66]


You seem to enjoy throwing "el crapo" into the fan and seeing what happens. Look at your title, "German nation". You may as well throw the Swiss into that mix.

Unfortunately, every nation has its horror story or stories of deviant behavior. (Well, I don't recall ever hearing about mass murders in Iceland so maybe not every nation.)

How 'bout for your next post, "Russia - Land of Mass Murdering Dictators."

News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]

Look for a Obama-Clinton ticket in the fall. An Irish guy (O'Bama) and a woman.

Language / Polish language problems (orthography) [47]


If you please, what does "wkurzające" mean? Haven't found it in my dictionary.

Language / Polish language problems (orthography) [47]


Your English was fine. I meant no criticism. Your use of the word "polish" was absolutely correct.

Earlier in the thread, we were talking about Polish spelling. My comment was meant to merely point out how confusing English can sometimes be; capitalizing polish makes it an entirely different word, and is pronounced differently.

Language / Polish language problems (orthography) [47]


Don't Polish your English.

P vs p make a big difference in meaning and pronunciation.

Language / Polish language problems (orthography) [47]


I admire anyone who is willing to learn another language other than his own, and try to speak it. As adults, we fear being laughed at if you say something that sounds stupid.

You have spiked my curiosity, Marek. I wondered why you wrote, "Thank G_d..." rather than "Thank God." Typo or deliberate?

Language / Polish language problems (orthography) [47]


What a horror story for the non-native speaker. Trying to figure out the proper cases for numbers. Dzięki Bogu for 1,2,3, etc.

Language / Polish language problems (orthography) [47]


"All Slavic tongues are believed to have evolved from a single parent language, usually called Proto-Slavic, which, in turn, is thought to have split off much earlier (possibly c.2000 B.C.) from Proto-Indo-European, the original ancestor of the members of the Indo-European language family. Proto-Slavic was probably still common to all Slavs in the 1st cent. B.C., and possibly as late as the 8th or 9th cent. A.D., but by the 10th cent. A.D. the individual Slavic languages had begun to emerge." (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia)

I learned Polish at the Army Language School years ago. There were other students taking Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Russian, etc. I found that I could better under those other Slavic language, then they could understand Polish.

For example, friend in Czech is přítel, in Slovak it is priate, in Slovene it is prijatelj and in Polish it is przyjaciel, but pronounced as if it is pszyjaciel.

The other could not under przyjaciel as being přítel or priate or prijatelj. The Psz sound was lost to them because they expected pr.

News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]


He dropped out of the race. See: kucinich.us

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News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]


If you have George Bush, America's favorite idiot, in mind, he got in Yale because he was a legacy. That is, his father went to Yale, and they have a program that allows for legacies to be admitted even though they don't have the best qualifications.

News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]


Julie, I would bet you not one will move. Please make a post one year after the election and tell us how many have moved.


A poor assumption. Obama is graduate of Harvard Law School. They accept no one based on affirmative action. They have so many applications, they can pick the absolute cream of the crop. Why would you assume that other than prejudice?

Language / How Many of you love the Polish Language? [79]

I have always been amazed at the ability of the human brain of a child to easily learn and adapt to whatever language is present.

My nephew and his Japanese wife and daughter visited from Tokyo recently and their little girl spoke Japanese to mom and English to dad. When I visited some friends who had been in Rome for about 6 months, their 6 year son just rattled away in Italian with the apartment complexes door keeper with perfect ease.

Why as adults do we lose that ability? Is it a fear of sounding stupid?

Food / How to sour/clabber homogenised store-bought milk [17]


Polonius3: Vinegar works well to sour the milk. My grandmother's banana bread recipe calls for sour milk which she always made by adding a little vinegar to regular homogenized milk. (You had the answer already.)

Language / I know "się" is the only reflexive personal pronoun..but "jak się masz?" [34]


What's your source for saying this? Seems to me it's more likely something both languages got from Old Slavonic.

Language / Things Polish people who speak English language say [180]


Somewhen I will find a way to use that new word. Great word.

Language / Things Polish people who speak English language say [180]


What is "pron"?

Language / a new Polish alphabet for internet and sms.... [29]

Setting your computer up with a Polish keyboard is easy and ąćęłńóśźż can be easily typed from it using the Alt key plus ace, etc.

Grzegorz Jagodziński has an excellent page on setting this up on your computer: [grzegorj.w.interia.pl/keyboard/indexgb.html] - Polish Keyboard Drivers

Use Help and Support on the Start menu of your computer. Put language in topic and the system will advise you how to install other languages.

News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]


Obama's pastor is not alone. We have a hotshot evangelist living in this area in a compound of six or so muliti-million dollars houses, occupied by her and her family. The archbishop of your city is likely living a palace of sorts (unless he had sell it to pay for sex crimes) and every in vogue big tv evangelist is living in a mansion and driving a luxury auto. So don't throw stones at Obama because his pastor has made big bucks and living la dolce vita rather than following the example of Christ.


Mary Grabar reminds me of many whinny people I have met who blame others for their lack of success. My immigrant grandfather came to US with little except the strength of his hands, his intelligence and a desire to get ahead.

White college students in California have been know to switch classes if they see a lot of orientals in a class because they fear the orientals will raise the curve. Orientals are not more intelligent, they're just willing to work harder. The white students who drop out would be bettered served if they decided to work harder and be the curve raiser.

News / Why does Poland love the US? [144]


Quite a profit, indeed: 418,000 dead (much less than the USSR's 23,000,000), but none the less devasting to many families.

American taxpayers paid for the war twice. First for the bombs to blow up Nazi and Japanese military sites and strategic targets, and then to rebuild the infrastructure via the Marshall Plan.

As far I know, the only profit we got was some pretty war brides the GIs brought home.

News / Why does Poland love the US? [144]


They certainly suffered greater losses of men and women and destruction of infrastructure. The US, on the other hand, had minimal infrastructure losses.

Hitler was certainly a idiot for invading the USSR.

UK, Ireland / Why so many British can't spell ? [83]


Don't feel bad. I only got 50. I couldn't understand the comic's accent and am not familiar with rhyming slang. Did fine in the other areas.

Just goes to prove old quotation, attributed to Oscar Wilde as well as others:

America and Britain are united by a common language and separated by a common language.