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Ziemowit   
2 Feb 2018
News / Poland's economic future? [294]

It is the Polish govt that gives coal 920 million euros in subsidy per year

What is it that the gov't subsidizes coal? It means that we all subsidize coal, but we could well subsidize some renewable form of energy instead.

I trust the gut feelings of the local municipality authorities in the area

How do you know what this gut feeling is?
Ziemowit   
2 Feb 2018
News / Poland's economic future? [294]

Hey that what Germany is doing right now. Where is EU? Ziem castrated by commies. lol!

Did I address my post with those remarks to you? I don't recall it. I must have a good reason or if you just picking on my post addressed to somebody else, maybe I should've addressed this post to you?

Now, you're not allowed to question your betters. Is that clear? True Polish patriots living in Norway rather than in Poland should realise it as soon as possible. Such patriots from WSI should hang.

If you don't like it kiss a horse under his tail and to chase down aftertaste eat a pretzel.

Poleski National Park

Why this sudden change from discussing Białowieża Forest to discussing Poleski NP, Gumi? Doesn't Białowieża fit into your theory?
Ziemowit   
1 Feb 2018
News / Poland's economic future? [294]

try to compare it to a coal mine which can give jobs to hundreds of people

Log the entire Białowieża Forest out then and build a coal mine in that place instead. I'm sure your locals would be more than happy.

But, there still could be some problem with getting the blessing of JK for such a project project. You may perhaps have not noticed, but JK has withdrawn his blessing for this damage-doer and idiot Jan Szyszko to continue in office as Environment Minister ...
Ziemowit   
30 Jan 2018
Language / Learning Polish Book? Milo mi? [15]

True Atch, very true:-)

As Mark Twain once said: Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Or: I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
Ziemowit   
30 Jan 2018
Language / Learning Polish Book? Milo mi? [15]

although I prefer the construction, 'nic nie rozumiem', I just think it flows better.

#metoo, Ms Atch. What I meant was that Roz's phrase lacked another negation, and merely the single negation (as in English) was applied instead. For that reason and for another reason that it was wrritten as one word, I did not read her nick properly for quite a long time. I was reading it as something like 'rozumnienić' or 'rozumienić' taking it as a verb in infinitive because of the ending -ic (ic). So you can now see how important for the Polish speaker the double negation is and without it even the meaning of the phrase may be lost.
Ziemowit   
29 Jan 2018
Language / Learning Polish Book? Milo mi? [15]

The trick is that the phrase rozumiem_nic is utterly wrong. But nevertheless her nick is charming, it took me several years to decipher what she meant by that ...
Ziemowit   
29 Jan 2018
Language / Learning Polish Book? Milo mi? [15]

It was called Nie rozumiem, Proszę powtórzyć

Hence Roz's nick rozumiemnic on this forum, I suppose?
Ziemowit   
29 Jan 2018
Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

Szyszko lost his job

He is no longer in the news, no one misses him as a minister in Poland and no one talks about that idiot any longer. There is absolute silence about him now in this country. It was the best thing on the part of Our Great Leader Jarosław Kaczyński to kick Szyszko out of the new government, though it was very silly to bring him in in the first place.

you tell me 10 fungi in bialowieza

Do tell it yourself if you are an expert ...
Ziemowit   
29 Jan 2018
Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

You're wife's pu$$y - I already told you dumbass

Dirk, it is obvious you are loosing the debate and because you can't accept it, you've started to throw insults on your opponent.

they pay for people to protest Bialowierza logging

You had failed to spell "Białowieża" correctly in the beginning, but then probably thanks to Casual Observer who always got it right you noticed how it is spellt and finally improved. Good for you!

I wonder how many more usernames he has going? TaxpayerVoter has 11 warnings

Casual Observer is definitely not Harry (Taxpaying voter). CO has a distinctly different style of writing from Harry whose style can be very easily identified and I sincerely dount if he is ever able to change it.
Ziemowit   
28 Jan 2018
Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

I have noticed that many thousands of trees alongside the country roads are being cut down, the excuse is the roads have been reclassified??

That's very sad, indeed. There should be some solid reason or excuse, as you say, for that. Otherwise, it is purely barbaric. Or has the former environment minister Jan Szyszko been appointed to the post of the governer of the Niederschlesien province?
Ziemowit   
28 Jan 2018
Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

In real life I haven't heard anyone defend it.

You are right. The Polish public opinion in general has never supported all those lobbying groups from the forestry and hunting circles.

Lasy Państwowe (National Forestry) is a state within the state, the same can be said about the associations of hunters. Those two groups are interlinked on many levels including having influential friends among MPs from all political parties. That damage-doer Environment Minister Jan Szyszko was clearly a representative of their interests. Thank God he has been fired from the government with the blessing of Our Dear Leader Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński and the logging in the Białowieża Forest has been stopped.
Ziemowit   
24 Jan 2018
News / Arrests made in Poland for Hitler birthday celebrations [35]

looked staged, as if they were performing for a camera.

I didn't watch the entire footage, just had a glimpse on it, but also had the same impression. There are people in Poland who say that all this has been planned and realized by the security forces. And it is quite easy to imagine someone developing such an idea in order to shed bad light on the present governent. And engage some morons who adore Adolph Hitler and who would buy anything for giving their consent to be filmed.

On the other hand, the PiS gov't has been building an excellent background for such an action over the last year or so. The morons from that group were precisely the ones who hanged the portraits of the PO members of the European Parliament in Kraków and the gov't spokeswoman Beata Mazurek was then telling everybody who wanted to listen that she condemns such a deed, but in she understands it in a way. What a moronic thing to say that! And there were many other instances in which the gov't (and most notably Zbigniew Ziobro as Justice Minister) was clearly excusing the actions of people forming this small Nazi group. Now the gov't is drinking what was perhaps prepared for them as a poisonous lotion
Ziemowit   
17 Jan 2018
Life / Fellow expats: Polish people compared to Czechs/Slovaks? [23]

Warsaw is not a city for silly dreamers, and you are going to turn a lot of people off with the sort of kiddie nonsense you have been writing

Perhaps it would be fine to send him to Poznań which has lots of parks and is apparently not so busy as Warsaw. Personally, I am based in Warsaw, but if I were to move to another Polish town, I would choose Wrocław (it has the Szczytnicki Park among others) or Gdańsk.

But altogether Berlin may be a most appropriate place for him. Lots of parks and lakes there and also other attractions. Plus East Germany is a bit different from West Germany. Have you ever been to Berlin, Dominic?
Ziemowit   
13 Jan 2018
Language / Verbal Aspect - "składała" vs. "złożyła" [15]

we could define "złożyć wniosek o wotum nieufności" as "successfully submit a motion of no-confidence". whereas składać would mean attempt to submit.

The imperfective aspect in "PO (czterokrotnie) składała wnioski (wniosek) o wotum nieufności" means that repetitive action was in progress and the emphasis is really on the action rather than on the result. The result is irrelevant here, tbh.

Whether the motions were rejected or not, the imperfective aspect would be most likely used in both cases as the emphasis is on the process itself which is usually fussy, noisy and lasts for a period of time. The result is pretty obvious from the very beginning - the motion submitted by the opposition is typically rejected and the opposition knows it. The whole thing about it is not the result, but the action and the fuss surrounding the acts hence it is natural to use the imperfective aspect for a repeated submission of a motion.

We will of course say: "PO złożyła wniosek o wotum nieufności" after a motion was submitted.

5 W zeszłym roku przeczytałem książki cały czas

This is incorrect since the phrase "cały czas" implies the continuity of an action. The perfective aspect of the verb adjoined to such a phrase makes it look really weird.
Ziemowit   
12 Jan 2018
Language / Idiomatic Polish [65]

Nieszczęścia chodzą parami.

obrazek
Ziemowit   
2 Jan 2018
News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]

Its deeply wrong to use term `pagan`. Term that is on us imposed by foreigners.

This is true. Someone who opts for the former pre-Christian religion in Poland should correctly be called "rodzimowierca". Such a term is used in those circles.

This is a great pity that so little information about the pre-Christian religion and pre-Christian cults has survived to our times. This is our ancestry which formed our mentality for a period much longer than the Christian period. Christian officials and functionaries destroyed everything they considered 'pagan' although they adopted some 'pagan' customs into the Christian faith. The Christian monks or priests did not bother to record the names of Slavic gods in Poland or their rituals for posterity. The few facts we know come from the area of West Pomerania or the area inhabited by the Polabian Slavs who were in contact with German priests and chronclers.
Ziemowit   
29 Dec 2017
Language / Idiomatic Polish [65]

I like this one: "Kurwa kurwie łba nie urwie", although it is a bit sub-standard or - to be honest - beyond any standard imaginable or acceptable.
Ziemowit   
28 Dec 2017
News / Polish `Robinson Crusoe` saved after 7 months [15]

Still no pic of the cat :-(

Apparently, the cat seems to be the most interesting 'person' on that boat. I've never heard of a cat eating Chinese soup.
Ziemowit   
28 Dec 2017
Language / Writing "to" and "from" on gifts in Polish. [41]

How about Felisia?

That would come from Felicjan --> Felicja --> Felcia or Felisia (less likely).
Felicja and Fekiksa are different names.

Have you heard of Tadz?

That is a Polish Americanism. The Polish diminutives are Tadek, Tadzio or Tadzik.
Ziemowit   
28 Dec 2017
Language / Writing "to" and "from" on gifts in Polish. [41]

The -ka dimunitive would be Felka or Feliska (the latter far less possible). As for Felikska, you mentioned Kresy

I think 'Feliksia' is possible as a dimunitive in Polish. Feliks --> Feliksa --> Feliksia.