History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]


well I was being sarcastic - I am one 'uneducated' - but you wouldn't believe how this conspiracies are twisted in some Polish minds where PiS becomes the KGB and is believed and expected to conspire - where it is seen as a threat to democracy - no logic in such accustations - just picking up headlines and news flashes

and all of those prominent intelectuals who say that those who vote for PiS are 'cattle'

btw Polish shipyards that have been sold recently and the buyer could not be named at first - then it was presumed to be a company from Qatar - and now it turns out to be Sapiens incorporated with not so Arabic but rather quite Semitic appeal

Life / I live in Warsaw and my hot water is brown!!! [32]


well in many rural areas (where I live for example) tap water is really drinkable, as well as in some bigger cities (I was told tap water in Częstochowa is very good) - but there are cities and areas in Poland where tap water should be avoided - the whole of Śląsk i guess, Wrocław, Warszawa and perhaps Kraków too, (I guess this is going be the same with Szczecin and Poznań) - the thing is many cities in Poland draw a considerable portion of water from running waters (rivers) - this is the case of Wrocław and Warszawa (but also a town of Brzeg) - (I guess noone in his good mind would try to drink water from Odra - the treatment of this water (filtering mostly) doesn't make it really drinkable - the only way would be to distill it - expensive also because you need to fill it with minerals before you let it into the pipe system - not very healthy drinking distilled water)

Love / First date with this Polish girl! Some advice required on what to say and what to do. [35]

tell her just cześć when you meet her :) - pronounced cheshch - a Polish accent enough for long enough - believe me :)

Love / First date with this Polish girl! Some advice required on what to say and what to do. [35]

czego się napijesz is really good but still you are not supposed to know such things - memorising phrases wihtout knowing much background (when and why you should use such and not such etc etc) is a sign of not being genuine - be yourself and just greet her with cześć from time to time it is informal and friendly enough - you don't want to be formal with someone who you want to be closer with, do you?

btw if a Pole wants to ask another Pole if s/he is thirsty, s/he says 'Chce ci się pić?'

literally Do you want to drink? just to show you literal translation very often don't do the thing

Travel / Foreign ATM & Credit Cards vs. Polish Kantor [9]


Canadian dollars as other not as wide-spread currencies can be different from the main currencies in kantors - kantors have better rates for main currencies (as well as for Czech and Slovak korons, Danish and Norwegian kroner and East European currencies) than banks

Language / Polish Language Pronunciation - Example Words and Phrases [178]

moglishmi vs mogwishmi

bilishmi vs biwishmi

the accent is on the penultimate syllable of the verb root here not the penultimate of the word (in both these cases the penultimate is the first one)

Travel / Prague to Auschwitz/Krakow - safety? [10]


I don't know about discrimation - but you can expect people to stare at you sometimes - as if they have never seen darker complexion

Food / Can anyone teach me an easy and fast Polish dish? [40]

I think you can try making naleśniki (sort of pancakes) they are quite easy - I am no cook myself but I can make naleśniki

if you cook for one person take half litre of milk (one pint), add about one glass of wheat flour, mix it well with the milk - it should form pastry - then you add one egg - mix it again - and finally add salt - you have to figure out yourself but one teaspoonful should be enough - a bit too little salt is better than a bit too much - the pastry should not be thick - you should be able to pour it out onto a frying pan

pour some cooking oil onto a frying pan and heat it until you see a little bit of an oil fog above its surface - then you pour pastry over the frying pan so it covers the whole of it but rather with a thin layer - you have to check if the down side is ready it can be golden but not dark brown - when it's ready you have to turn the pancake - having some experience you can do it quite easily throwing it out of the pan so that it turns in the air and then you catch it back with the pan again

the amount of ingredients should give you up to ten pancakes depending on how thick you make them (the thinner the pastry the thinner pancakes you can get)

when ready you can fill the pancakes with various fillings or just smear them with say jam or maple syrup
spinach filling is very delicious - in Poland you can buy frozen spinach with cream which is best for the purpose - you just need to chop two garlic claws??? into very little bits and add it into defrozen spinach pulp (if you buy spinach sans cream you can add some half glass of cream) - the spinach now needs some salt and pepper and short boiling in a frying pan (you can add some cooking oil but it's not absolutely necessary)

when the filling is ready you just fill the pancakes with it

smacznego :)

Language / Polish Language Pronunciation - Example Words and Phrases [178]

Sean - definitely not moog - it's not mógliśmy but mogliśmy

Language / Już and jeszcze [36]

but you can encounter colloquial -' Pijesz jeszcze jednego żywca?' - Will you have another żywiec

Language / Using państwo and surnames. [8]

yes - I guess you just wanted to get rid of any doubt - anyway you got good ear for Polish

(both of the examples you've given were correct)

Language / Polish Language Pronunciation - Example Words and Phrases [178]

Tseh-zah-ri - hyphens indicate syllables italics the accent (stress)

Language / Why do you have this weird grammar with y and i? optYka? magazYn? zYsk? why? [30]


Germans also use w for v, and v is pronounced mostly as f (as in vogel) in German

i have some idea why it w was chosen over v - not sure if it bears any veracity though - in old manuscripts and letter carvings V was often used to mark U sound - have a look at some medieval tombstones - (at least when capitals were used) so I guess it was used as a disambiguity means

as for sz, cz, dz, dź, dż digraphs - it is a matter of tradition - if you adopted some system it is sometimes counterproductive to overturn it for another

well as far as I know Czech does use y sign and sometimes the sound of it is a bit different to i sounds (well I am not quite sure about it)

btw sz cz groups are unpronouncable in Polish, rz is though and there is a couple of words that have rz that is not pronounced as ż but as two seperate sounds (for example marznąć, mirza but marzyć has rz=ż)

maybe it sounds weird to you but this is the way this words (magazyn etc) are spoken in Polish (we after all have a distinct sound of y not quite similar to i - so do the Russians btw) - these words were polonised this way long ago they sound better this way in Polish - btw if magazin was spoken as native word you wouldn't recognise it in speech actually - magazyn can be picked up more easily I guess by foreigners

there are no native Polish words that use v (v sign is called fau following German lines)

UK, Ireland / How can I receive child support from a Polish man living in UK? [33]

if he acknowledged his parenthood of the child it should be no problem getting the court to order him to support the child - however Polish legal authorities often have a hard time finding Polish person living abroad and getting the person to really pay his contributions - I am not quite sure about the state of the state child support fund - there was no such thing for 2 or 3 years in place and then it was reinstated in some form around 2 years back - anyway if the father cannot afford supporting the child the state fund does pay you some support (not very high though) - I am not quite sure weather it is the same case with the situation when Polish legal authorities cannot find the person in question abroad (but it seems logical)

I have no idea if there is any sense going to an English (or Scottish) court - it would be quite problematic and anything but cheap for you - so try to investigate every opportunity for dealing with the issue before a Polish court

my knowlegde of these things is quite superficial though and maybe I am mislead on some points - so you should inform yourself with a professional lawyer - there may be some lawyers in NonGovernment Organizations - for example Liga Kobiet or simmilar that perhaps could advise you on the matter for free (gratis)

News / Poland and Germany - Germany unhappy with the present border with Poland? [88]


who support those who live by the sword need to pay consequences for what who live by the sword do - the law of karma - if you don't have proper judgement of what is being done in your name don't moan afterwards



I should add significantly - the things you mentioned were anything but significant for German war effort

Language / Why do you have this weird grammar with y and i? optYka? magazYn? zYsk? why? [30]

Tomaco


oh you Slavic purist Tomaco guy

listen there are features of Polish that are not present in other Slavic languages (phonetics - nasal vowels; grammar - quite a lot - because other Slavic languages lost them - there are also features in Polish that evolved in the language in time and are particular to Polish - these are ś, ć, dź sounds for example not prestent in most other Slavic languages - do you think that it is any German influence??? where do you find such phonemes in German - if you could call any Slavic language germanized it would be Czech that copied a lot of German patterns including numerals ( zwei un zwanzig, dva a dvadcet vs dwadzieścia dwa, dvadcat' dva (Russ), there are a lot of Czech words that are direct copies of German words (e.g predstavovat from German vorstellen where Polish is wyobrażać sobie which goes along the lines of Latin influenced languages (an image-to imagine) Czech language was sort of artificially dragged back to Slavic roots resulting in such words as hudba, divadlo, plyn - that you cannot possibly know have anything to do with music, theatre or gas if you don't know the language - and you talk about peculiarities

there are peculiarities in every language simply - if you exclaim at some peculiarities in Polish you just simply state that you don't know much about any other languages including your own

Language / Why do you have this weird grammar with y and i? optYka? magazYn? zYsk? why? [30]


The thing is as far as I know the Czech were using sz, cz transliteration before they adopted the birdies or whatever it is called in English over s c n - it happened during and after 15th century

Language / Why do you have this weird grammar with y and i? optYka? magazYn? zYsk? why? [30]


Tomaco

I am now sorry for what I have written - I shouldn't have been harsh to you - my apologies - you have a right to be mistaken or not very well informed - after all all I know is because I have learned it somewhere and somehow -

so in the end I just would advise you to learn about these things - you could well be for a surprise here and there

Language / Polish Phrase - "motka nie-fienso", does anyone know the proper way to say this? [4]

My guess is what she says is 'Matko Niebieska' - Mother in Heaven (Holy Mary)

it is a guess though what you've written is quite dubious

Language / Polish Language Pronunciation - Example Words and Phrases [178]


Polish pronounce 'rz' in 'trzy' as 'sz' - i think many people could have trouble understanding what you mean if you say 'trzy' with a voiced 'rz'

this is easily explained by a rule that says that voiced wovels become their voiceless counterparts if next to another voiceless consonant

gadka is pronounced like gatka (d becomes voiceless because of neighbouring k)

Language / Why do you have this weird grammar with y and i? optYka? magazYn? zYsk? why? [30]

Tomaco

I have found plenty of infromation on history of Czech language in wikipedia (Czech version) just after writing my posts - but it's true I have gathered some knowledge before in many various places but much of it was on the internet - for example language forums - using your imagination, trying various ways always gives some results - you need to develop some knowledge of langauge related terminology to help you in your personal research (however part-time it would be) if you haven't already have some good foundation to it

oh and you can always aks about language related things in here (weather Polish or any other) - there are many language freaks here - some are actually linguistic professionals - I am not - just sort of etymology freak of me

I know some Czech btw

History / World War II - a tragic story for Poland and the World [489]

panzerwurst hahahaha

brilliant ;)

Language / Już and jeszcze [36]


nouns and infinitives ;)

me work good ;)

News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

first of all she was no rape victim - media in Poland do have their agendas - being quick to judge by what they claim proves to be yielding to manipulation

News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

don't get your point Sean


a baby in womb is a concious being - it is a being even before entering the material universe - all life is spiritual - even the material world is built with spiritual energy - most of us have been to this world many times before

there is a BBC series about pregnancy using some quite recent discoveries and footage that would make many of you change your views about the subject - i don't know the title I have seen just one part of the series - what they present is scientific approach not metaphysical of course [

btw I am not saying I know better what the girl should have done - but the choices we make have consequences sooner or later

News / What Poland thinks about China [27]

China is a big mildly totalitarian state in the middle of Asian continent that invaded Tibet somewhere in the 50's and will start a mission to the Moon God only knows what for

aaa and hhmmm China is strange in many ways ;) eating rice with stick - dear God ;)

oh and there are so many Chinese people there who say Amelika instead of America ;)

oh and there is hardly any religious freedom there

News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

well - you could believe me or her ;)

i'm a Pole too heheh

should I believe Sean you take anything you read in newspapers as beyond doubt?
Gazeta Wyborcza is actually leading manipulatory medium in Poland and for years they pampered a guy who was a secret services informator instrumental in the case of Pyjas's murder as the main editor (TW Ketman)

Sean - during sleep you are temporarily unconscious - and that is not that you are completely unconscious - loud noise can wake you up

the same goes to the stoned - after the stoning stuff gets metabolised they regain much of the consciousness, don't they :)

Sean - i am not sure science will ever be able to determine when a foetus becomes a sentient being (or inhabited by a conscious being) - anyway our being is far more than the material - i won't argue/dispute much on that - don't have enough missionary zeal - if you have your own views that's ok - just what teachings I have had a chance to study make much more sense than anything else - and I could also say I have some experience to back my beliefs but not to argue for them

News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

I'm sure that the choice faced by many mothers considering abortion is a difficult one - and simply denying them the right to do so (banning abortion) is no real solution (if there is no support from the society) - on the other hand abortion at will is even worse - that most people fail or don't want to notice that it precipitates dear consequences doesn't mean there aren't any

Life / Driving License - B1 that allows 16 year old to drive light vehicles? [27]

wouldn't bother dnz - it would be difficult to get rid of 80kg in maluch - window panes not that heavy after all - you could only replace front boot cover with fibreglass thing don't think engine cover (in the rear) could be replaced, cutting a hole in the roof could help perhaps but it weakens the construction considerably I guess - getting rid of both doors can help significantly - but not sure you could register the vehicle after all these changes - it would need some extra inspection by a professional which doesn't cost a pittance - and still there's no guarantee the vehicle would be allowed to use the public roads - also you could think of replacing the original maluch wheel which are quite heavy with something lighter - but it wouldn't be anything straightforward

oh I can see now you need 550 kg so perhaps it wouldn't be that difficult

Study / Did anyone (from this forum) face Master or MBA defence in Polish University? [4]

most questions on the exam deal with general knowledge (in your field/faculty)(but somehow connected to the field of your thesis) - there's three maybe four people in the examining commission - each is gonna ask you questions

there will be questions about your thesis of course

the exam is most of the time formality