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


christy use milk instead of water and remember to add eggs - still frying pan is really preferable for frying pancakes -

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

christy1991
well actually if you are doing pancakes just for yourself one egg should be enough

Language / Translations of Gadu-Gadu [158]

I am not sure it is possible - though someone showed me once another Polish communicator - tlen where he could see his gg contacts - must be that tlen works also as gg client - so if you 'pidgin' can act like a gg client then you can register but seriously I doubt if any universal (international) communicator does act as gg client

Language / Grammar for "Grandma Cookie" [7]

ciasteczka babuni

wouldn't bother with the pronounciation :P

ok babuni - would be baboonee ;) seriously ;)

and ciasteczka hmm - can be approximated as ch(i)astechkah

so cha(h)-stech-kah ba-boo-nee - italics indicate the accent/stress

Language / Grammar for "Grandma Cookie" [7]

oh well if just want to have grandma in Polis it can be Babunia's Cookies or Babuni Cookies or perhaps Babunia Cookies - proper grammar is not so important - you are not going to market these in Poland anyway - only the perception of your customers counts - I personally would go for Babunia's Cookies

Babunia is sort of diminutive of babcia and it is much more affectionate than the original babcia

Food / Łowicz BEST JAM EVER [23]


Vortumnus I guess is marketed in Lidl Sean - I am not 100 per cent sure though

Language / Grammar for "Grandma Cookie" [7]

mafketis - babcine would not be comprehensible to second or third generation Polonia - it is all true that in Polish you don't join nouns just like that (like say babcia ciastka ;) heheh) but I suppose they just need a Polish accent in the name - the accent that makes one think of his Grandma and her cookies ;) Grandmas Cookies won't do the thing - but Babunia's Cookies should

Food / Does Polish pierogi also have its story of origin? [43]

one cannot exclude that they came from the China originally christy - maybe with the Hunnic/Mongol nomads as the middlemen

Language / Formal "you" and Informal "you" : which is which? [46]

pluralis maiestatis

WAS is only for plural now

pluralis maiestatis was only used to address very high figures as far as I can tell - i.e. kings/queens, high church figures, top government figures - however it is all gone - it has no use in real life in Polish now (pluralis maiestatis means addressing a single prominent person with plural)

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

listen to lalka krabkakes - it is interest in her that you need to show - no need to show off with some memorised Polish phrases - don't be affraid to ask questions

Language / Formal "you" and Informal "you" : which is which? [46]

yes your right cinek

sorry to mislead anyone

but was is not used in the context Genvieve mentioned for quite some time (if ever)

Language / Hussar-the word, is it originally Polish? [10]

husarz - masculine noun, plural husarze - no articles (prefixes) in Polish - most often you can guess the gender by the form of the word (in singular nominative case most feminine words end with -a, most neuter nouns with -o or -e, and most masculine with a consonant - there are exceptions though)

Food / Mushroom Picking Parties (Poland tradition) [74]

first of all most mushroom that have lamellae under on the lower part of their hats are not edible with some exceptions, and most importantly some are very toxic - one species to the extent not much can be done to help a person who digested one - (they are from Amanita genus)

on the other hand most mushroom that have a spongy bottom of the hat are edible - but there are some exceptions

I did not mention other mushrooms (there are other types) 'cause they are rarely picked for consupmtion - there are no truffles in Poland - well there weren't - there are signals that perhaps there a couple locations where you can find them here

you should be careful with alcohol after eating mushrooms - some normally edible species can make you ill after following them with alcohol

Language / Formal "you" and Informal "you" : which is which? [46]


Ty też robisz postępy Marku :)

Language / Hussar-the word, is it originally Polish? [10]

Nathan

interesting hobby - making an idiot out of yourself :)

Language / Formal "you" and Informal "you" : which is which? [46]

Lyzko

Language / When does polish "ch" sound like eng "ch" and when is it "h"? [59]

czała :P

man, these are basics :P

Food / Mushroom Picking Parties (Poland tradition) [74]


not true - one of the borowik family can be mildly toxic if consumed along alcohol - borowik ceglastopory - Boletus erythropus- quite common where I live - and quite tasty too

there are other members of Boletus genus that are toxic to various degrees for example borowik szatański (Boletus satanas) - still they are not common at all here where I live

History / 1940 massacre of Poles remains potent issue [35]

heh there were spies in MI5 and MI6 - remember Kim Philby - I guess he was just a tip of an iceberg of pro-Soviet espionage among the British - and the guy is after some Polish guy - btw there was a film about how brave American sailors captured enigma device and there was a Polish officer depicted in the film who was a German spy heheh - btw there was no mention in the film about the Polish contribution to the deciphering of enigma

eventually, I don't argue it wasn't possible - some Polish officer in Bletchley was a Soviet spy, but even if it is true did it matter that much in Soviet spy-riddled British intelligence

btw America was also communist spies riddled - see Algernon Hiss case, how did the soviets acquire atomic bomb plans etc.

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

you see - wine is not the main ingredient in the sauce - it isn't in any that I know of - but I am no cook - this is why we say 'sos z winem' - were the focus a bit different or were wine the main ingredient 'sos z wina' would be a prefferable choice

the more obvious example is 'chleb z kminkiem' and 'chleb z kminku'

chleb z kminkiem - is bread with cumin

while chleb z kminku would be bread made of/with cumin

side note: I am pretty convinced what the English call cumin is not really the same thing as what the Poles call 'kminek'

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

people - first of all the girl in question has not been subject to any form of rape

she had sex with her say boyfriend on her own consent (and as far as I can remember it took place on some trip organized by their parish)

were there any rape there would be investigation and conviction - there hasn't been any

Gazeta Wyborcza is actively promoting abortion on demand in that case using lies and manipulations

this is leaving the abortion dispute aside

News / New York Post : "Polish" Death Camps and more [278]


wrong

there were no gas chambers or simmilar there

the deaths that took place there where because of: poor conditions, poor nutrition or bestiality of the staff - the case of £ambinowice is quite telling - after it turned out what was taking place there the command has been replaced

anyway the subject is of course a bit more complicated but I don't believe there has been any planned genocide taking place

History / A few thoughts after plowing through most "Sabaton: 40-1" comments on YouTube [59]

Bratwurst Boy

Polish defenders only surrendered (cpt Raginis took his life on that occasion) when the commander was blackmailed that unless they surrender Polish prisoners of war taken in the battle would be executed

Life / Solidarnosc Tattoo - is it a good choice? I have Polish ancestry. Symbols, ideas, heritage. [31]

Parasol sign (symbol for Polska Walcząca) is a good one if you want to avoid the eagle or the red-white banner - if you go for the eagle I would recommend the eagle of the time of November Uprising (1831) - much more expressive than the present one (wings raised, sitting on the Amazon shield) -

Life / Good polish bank for online banking? PEKAO SA let me down. [32]

well I've got an Intelligo account (which is an internet brand of PKO BP) and can't complain - the only thing it is solely internet account and it lacks some features I guess - one can pay into your account for free in PKO BP

Life / Solidarnosc Tattoo - is it a good choice? I have Polish ancestry. Symbols, ideas, heritage. [31]

well I call it Parasol ;) yeah perhaps I am wrong -

Life / Good polish bank for online banking? PEKAO SA let me down. [32]


btw what do you need a credit card for - I don't think it is the cheapest way to get credit in Poland (or elsewhere)

Life / Good polish bank for online banking? PEKAO SA let me down. [32]

yes - i use PayPal with just a debit card (have my PayPal account associated to my internet Inteligo account for which no credit card is available)

Life / Good polish bank for online banking? PEKAO SA let me down. [32]

the trouble is they don't have the English version of the site so you might consider some other internet account (I mean Inteligo)

Life / Good polish bank for online banking? PEKAO SA let me down. [32]

from what I gather they do (just been there) - but wouldn't judge the quality (intelligibility) of the English version