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Speaks Polish?: yes, though Polska język trudna język. ;)

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Matyjasz   
10 Dec 2009
UK, Ireland / Poland vs. UK - how the manners differ [48]

What, am I the only person here that likes a proper gossip? C'mon people... The thing that strook me the most about brits, though, was their obssesion with celebrities and their lifes... It wasn't that big of a topic back in Poland, but than again it was 6 years ago and times change...
Matyjasz   
8 Dec 2009
Life / Do Poles Lack in Social Skills and Etiquette? [74]

I didn't rule that one out, did I? It's just another cause, and they are not always intertwined.

Of course, and I didn't try to make it sound as if you ruled that posibility out. I think many a times its a case of an old habit that dies hard.
Matyjasz   
8 Dec 2009
Life / Do Poles Lack in Social Skills and Etiquette? [74]

When he saw me, all the fuc*nut could think of to say was 'zajęty'. I figured that you dumb pric*! I had no way of knowing he was there.

Easy there Seanus. If I would be caugh sitting on a toilet with my pants down I would most proably say the same as this guy.Does the british etiquette say anything about such situations? ;)

I agree. Although I think that the lack of possibilities in cities and towns in Poland might be blamed for such habits as "not going out".

And this attitude in turn can be blamed by the peoples lack of funds. I've read once here on this very forum that it is a polish tradition not to dine out. Nonesense. The only people that eat out are those that can afford it, and lets be honest here, up until recently, not many could. Since the 90's things have been changing here, though, and no doubt with the population getting wealthier so will increase the number of nice, cheap restaurants other than pizzerias.
Matyjasz   
8 Dec 2009
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

Railways too, don't forget.

Agree. It takes bloody 10 hours to get from Poznań to Kraków by train! It's ridicules! The lack of proper infrastructure is something that is mentioned time and time again by foreign and polish investors, but the improvment comes at the speed of a disabled elderly snail...
Matyjasz   
17 Nov 2009
Food / Bad food experiences in Poland [30]

I think he means, over priced and substandard food, only tourists will pay....So not a tax as such, just a bit of a rip off...

Ahh, I understand now.

Very common place for students to eat prior in the commo days, food was cheap and good, now its a place where homeless people hang out, the place has a funny smell when you walk in, like the smell of a hospital.

Just for the record, those milk bars (Bary mleczne) are being subsidized by the government so no wonder you see homeless people eating there. They are not ordinary restaurants, although it might have been different back in the days.

PS: Your in-box is full again Shelley. I've tried to send you a message several times but failed. :(
Matyjasz   
13 Oct 2009
Life / Supermarkets in Poland not accepting card payments [12]

This is utterly ridiculous, me and the G/f went to do a weeks shopping in Biedronka of all places (we've been relegated from Auchan since the maluch caught fire :( ) thought that i'd pay for it on card as most normal people do only to be told that they don't accept cards,

I'm sorry to hear about your maluch. As for Biedronka, I guess that their target are the low-income customers so maybe they think that they do not have to strive for perfection? :)

From my experience most supermarkets do allow their customers to pay by card. The two exceptions tha I know about being Biedronka and Netto.
Matyjasz   
11 Oct 2009
UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in the UK. Ch. 4 - Language [66]

I tend to find that too. The range of language used does tend to be limited. They are totally blown away when I pull out all the British accents and dip into dialect. Their jaws just drop when I whip out the Doric (my dialect).

That's true. It's just the outcome of a quite successful policy of unifying the country made up of three parts that lost connection with each other for over one hundred years, carried out by the Polish government after Poland re-emerged on the map of Europe.

This policy of imposing the standard polish through the educational system was later on continued by the commie regime after the end of WWII. All Poles were suppose to be equal and that included the way they were to communicate. Generally the commie government did a lot to destroy the local/regional communities as they endangered the centralized system the country was supposed to be steered from now on.

There is also but a one more thing, the new lands and their new inhabitants. The speakers of the purest standard/literature polish are to be found in Szczecin and Wrocław. That’s due to the fact that it was mainly settled with people from various parts of pre-WWII Poland, mostly by Poles from central and eastern Poland( today’s Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine).

One part of my wife’s family came from Warsaw while the other came from today’s Belarus. Even though my wife has lived all her life in Wielkopolska she has problems with understanding my grandmother who speaks only the dialect of Wielkopolska.

“Na bane młusisz płujść na szage bez the hynhy.” :)

All of her family speak with standard polish as it enabled them to communicate better with the locals and eventually blend in the community. She actually hates it when I throw in the odd word in Wlkp. dialect once in a while. She finds it to sound as a vulgar speech of uneducated peasants.
Matyjasz   
11 Oct 2009
History / Matters of Propaganda...Or: how was the West portrayed in Poland? [150]

What next? More brave than the Czechs? More resisting than the Hungarians??? WHEN??? When did you do all that??? Maybe I really lack the education but then clue me in!

There was this little movement called Solidarity with its lider Lech Wałęsa that you might have heard about... :)

I'm not here to take sides in this "we had it worse than you" argument but to make this conversations more about facts and less about assumptions/speculations:

polish resistance againts communism:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_1956_protests
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Polish_political_crisis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_1970_protests
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1976_protests
August 1980
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August-Streiks_1980_in_Polen

This of course does not include the forest partisans.

PS: Great thread MG.
Matyjasz   
30 Sep 2009
Life / Poland's westernization [44]

There might be not common political views between england and Holland, but there some common grounds like in Human rights, inmigration policies, rights of women, etc. which to some countries of the east block was asked to join the EU, before that they did not have them.

O common mvefa, next you will tell us that before Polish accession to EU we had slavery in Poland and women didn't have the right to vote. :/

In terms of human and women rights Eastern Europe and western Europe don't really differ (I don't know about Belarus, but Czech republic, Hungary, Poland, etc most certainly don't).

I think that what people think when they say westernization is consumptionism. .

@ MareGaea

You pretty much make a mistake of lumping all Poles into one bag with each other. I can assure you that a professor from a university has a different taste than a guy from a construction site. Maybe in Holland truck drivers read Dostoyevsky, listen to Vivaldi and spend their free time at Opera, but in Poland a menial worker will most likely listen to pop-music, won't read anything apart for some tabloids and spend his free time drinking beer down at the pub.

What are your thoughts? does Poland hates the western culture even though they use it and adapt it to themselves? Or is it just a double faced statement and its fashionable to hate the western culture?

Does Poland hate the western culture? It depends. The simple folk, as I imagine all simple folk in the world, love the consumptionist way of life. After all, this was what they dreamed about and couldn’t get during the commie times. A new TV set, cable TV, a new car and some vacations somewhere nice from time to time. The intelligentsia is somewhat more critical towards consumptionism, preaching the impotance of some higher values and all. Is this that different from wherever you are?
Matyjasz   
2 Sep 2009
News / Poland Remembers start of WW2 [200]

Similar thing was with the anniversary of the fall of the iron curtain. I/we know what you are trying to say, BBoy.
Matyjasz   
2 Sep 2009
News / Poland Remembers start of WW2 [200]

Wroclaw Boy:
How long do you think Great Britian could hold out if we were being attacked from both sides by arguably two of the greatest land fighting forces in the world and with no Channel?

so now in a forum of 'facts' you want to talk hypothetically?? lol, funny where some people will go to try and make a point.

Well than, lets talk facts. GB got their arse kicked in France in 1940, in Norway in 41', Grece 41', Crete 41', Tobruk 42', Greek Islands 43'... well lets be honest torny, even together with the super powers of that time like France and USA on your side and with the help of the countries from the commonwealth you were still no match for the Gerries, so maybe it would be wise for you to step down from that high horse of yours and have just a little respect for the twenty year old country Poland was at that time that took a stand against a power that your empire had no chance with.
Matyjasz   
9 Aug 2009
History / Poland and Lithuania [161]

It's a big mistake to equate the historical Lithuania ( "Litwa" ), or the Grand Duchy (GDL), with the modern, small, ethnic country called Lithuania.

True. But than again it's the same story with the Commonwealth and Poland, which similarly to Lithuania and GDL, also thinks of itself as a natural heir of Rzeczpospolita, even though Pl is a homogeneous country these days.

What drives Polish people crazy is that Lithuanian do not think that the Commonwealth for them was a good thing. Try to think hard why (they might be wrong)? Why Lithuania not so keen in "celebrating the world's second modern constitution and the first in Europe"? Think hard! It will do you a lot of good. Why Lithuania is not so quick buy a myth that the Commonwealth was first prototype of EU? Think hard!

I'm actually more than very interested in hearing your story, Nerijus.
Matyjasz   
29 Jul 2009
Language / SILESIANS WANT THEIR LINGO RECOGNISED [23]

W antryju na bifyju stoi szolka tyju. : p

Interesting, in Greater Poland we have a similar rhyme that goes:

W antrejce na ryczce
Stały pyry w tytce
Przyszła niuda, spucła pyry
A w wymborku myła giry!

:)

Antryj = ?

In GP it's antrejka, and it means hall.

Fach = ?

Craft?

Jodło = ?

Food?

Lyjberwoszt = ?

Liver sausage! In Greater Poland we call it "lebera", and it is a pate made out of liver that looks pretty much like a sausage. Delicious on a bread with pickled cucumbers mmmm...

Miech = ?

bag; sack?

Raja = ?

Is this the same as "rajka"? A line on a field where you plant veggies?

Sornik = ?

Cheesecake?

Tasia = ?

a bag or a purse?
Matyjasz   
28 Jul 2009
History / A few thoughts after plowing through most "Sabaton: 40-1" comments on YouTube [59]

It's even more amusing trying to make the Poland campaign somehow to something else than a devastating, humiliating defeat for the "in one week in Berlin" types of "proud" Poles. :):):)

That was propaganda, duuhhh... What else where they suppose to say. "We will be overrun in about four weeks and as a outcome most probably 3 million of us will die!" ??? :)

If Czechs didn't surrender like cowards in 1938 but decided to ally themselves
with Poland instead

Hold your horses there mate! The problem wouldn't have been to convince the Czechs to fight, but rather to come to an agreement over Zaolzie and start cooperating. Both sides failed to do so and as a result we were overrun by helmuts. Simple. The Czechs were alone mate, they didn't have many options.
Matyjasz   
25 Jul 2009
News / POLAND'S POPULATION IS SHRINKING... [62]

Who wants children during so unstable times ?

Well there are some lunatics who do actually. ;) At my work there are at least 6 people that are expecting children this year.

I think on the whole, that Bartolome, frd an mafetkis are right, however judging by the numbers of pregnant women looming the streets of Poland these days I expect this year to be a record-breaking one. It's probably a demographic echo of the early 80’s baby boom.
Matyjasz   
22 Jul 2009
UK, Ireland / Irish Primary schools to teach Polish [223]

Do you honestly believe the government acted alone? That they where not lobbied to introduce Polish lessons in class? Come on......

Right now I don't know what to believe. I'm quite open to your suggestions. However, by the way you wrote about this issue, I thought that you have some proofs other than your suspicion.
Matyjasz   
22 Jul 2009
UK, Ireland / Irish Primary schools to teach Polish [223]

Why then Polish has to be taught in Ireland when Irish are not interested in planning to settle in Poland? As WB said:

Hey there Nathan, since RN doesn't fancy to answer my question, maybe you will. You seem to be quite knowledgeable about this subject, tell me what is the word among the Ukrainian community in Canada?
Matyjasz   
21 Jul 2009
UK, Ireland / Irish Primary schools to teach Polish [223]

Get over it & move on...I'm as Irish as they come.

Ok, ok... I just thought that Magdalena is a strange name for a man, that's all. No hard feelings brate! :)
Matyjasz   
21 Jul 2009
UK, Ireland / Irish Primary schools to teach Polish [223]

Magdalena is as Irish as pasta.

There is more inconsistency here, namely Magdalena is a female name while our poster seem to be a male. But enough about him. RN, could you guide me where exactly does it say that this change in the curiculum was imposed by polish lobby? Or do you know that from some other source?

Hi there. Magdalena is from Ireland and my name is Krzysiek and I am from Japan. I need to be confidential as well because of my job (I am a student - shhh!). Using names like Kimoto or Kawasaki would shed my disguise immediately and you would know who I am ;)

Yeah, and Nathan is so uber-ukrainian. lol
Matyjasz   
20 Jul 2009
UK, Ireland / Irish Primary schools to teach Polish [223]

Well actually I can understand the guy. Personally I would rather my daughter learn English, German or Spanish than Irish, in which, it seems she would have troubles communicating even in Ireland. I can understand why some would feel the same about Polish. However, I don't see where does it state in this article that the Poles are responsible for the sudden change in the curriculum.

As for the problems with integration, it’s been only 5 years for Christ sake. Give the people some time.
Matyjasz   
20 Jul 2009
Genealogy / "-ski" last names more desirable in Poland? [28]

arent they ska's?

In Poland they are -ska's, in America they are ski's.

so basically we're all nobles..all the skis, skas, icz's...any exceptions|?

Some peasents also had the -ski ending so you never can be sure. :)