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AdamKadmon   
6 May 2010
Life / Psychological predicament of del pobre polaco [7]

Noticing that many Poles abroad felt pressed to boost their spirits by speaking of fame and glory of our ancestors Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish writer and expatriate in Argentina, posed the following questions:

What does average Mr. Kowalski have in common with Chopin?

Does Chopin’s composition of the ballads raise Mr Kowalski’s specific weight by even one iota?

Can the Siege of Vienna augment Mr Kowalski by even an ounce of glory?

If our greatness or our past impress us, isn't it the proof that it has not yet entered our bloodstream?

Copernicus, Curie, Chopin are hardly ever, if at all, the subject of conversation among Poles in Poland. So many posts here on the PF are referring to great Poles that I am wondering why Poles confronted with other nations speak so often not about their own personal achievements but about greatness of others, which happen to be our compatriots? Do people of other nationalities feel the same urgent need to boost their spirits in a similar way when confronted with people from other countries?
AdamKadmon   
4 May 2010
Language / Having trouble pronouncing Polish words? [35]

Ivona will help. Write some words ending in -uj. Don't put letters uj into the box, Ivona reads letters as if spelled, one by one.
AdamKadmon   
2 May 2010
Language / "Idę do kolegi." - Polish prepositions/and translation [17]

I am translating senses not words. The point is that while translating, you must not be enslaved to the extent of rendering word for word. And if anyone does so, this comes from his impoverishment and deficiency of wit.
AdamKadmon   
2 May 2010
Language / "Idę do kolegi." - Polish prepositions/and translation [17]

Idę do kolegi

Translation: I'm going to see one of my friends/colleagues.

Word for word translation: I go to colleague.

Iść - to go infinitive.
Idę - I am going, literally, I go - the first person singular.

Iść do [kogo? czego?], these are questions of genitive case, so the noun which follows should be in the genitive case. We say that the verb iść do requires genitive or in other words governs the genitive case.

kolega - nominative case, by the way this is masculine noun, ten kolega, tho' the ending of it is typical for the feminine.

kolegi - genitive case of kolega

So we've got:

Idę do kolegi.

QED
AdamKadmon   
30 Apr 2010
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

The Voytek's story:

During the most crucial phase of the battle, when pockets of men were cut off on the mountainside desperately in need of supplies, Voytek, who all this time had been watching his comrades frantically loading heavy boxes of ammunition, came over to the trucks, stood on his hind legs in front of the supervising officer and stretched out his paws toward him. It was as if he was saying: I can do this. Let me help you . The officer handed the animal the heavy box and watched in wonder as Voytek loaded it effortlessly onto the truck.

iranian.com/History/2005/August/Bear/index.html
AdamKadmon   
23 Apr 2010
News / Michał Kamiński - referred to not by name on the UK Leaders Debate but ... [47]

Mr Zeichner sad:

You don't go and have an alliance with Angela Merkel, you go and find some people in the Polish Law and Order Freedom Party - some people who think that the best thing to do on a Sunday morning is to go out and celebrate the achievements of the Waffen SS in the last war

Polish Law and Order

Latvian For Fatherland and Freedom - national conservative political party in Latvia

So he made one party out of two, just a mental shortcut of a kind, play for the ignorant public, that's quite normal for a politician. Both of the mentioned parties are in alliance with the British Conservatives, at least here he's right.
AdamKadmon   
23 Apr 2010
News / Michał Kamiński - referred to not by name on the UK Leaders Debate but ... [47]

Check what the Independent wrote on the subject:

I do not claim that he said: 'the Conservatives are now allied with eastern European parties'
But who are they allied with then?

As to the actual words he said:
How on Earth does it help anyone... David Cameron, to join together in the European Union with a bunch of nutters, anti-Semites , people who deny climate change exists, homophobes
AdamKadmon   
23 Apr 2010
News / Michał Kamiński - referred to not by name on the UK Leaders Debate but ... [47]

Yesterday just after the pre-election debate I started the thread:

Is Prawo i Sprawiedliwość a bunch of nutters?

In which I wrote:

The Conservatives are now allied with eastern European parties. Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, described the Conservatives’ allies, eastern European parties as:

a bunch of nutters, anti-Semites , people who deny climate change exists, homophobes