Po polsku / Amerykańskie chamstwo? [133]

Jeśli możliwe, proszę uzasadnić tę odpowiedź. Co kwintesencjonalnie polskiego ostatnio zawojowało świat? Oczywiście był Wałęsa i JP2, ale to są ikony nie specjalnych prawach.

Po polsku / Amerykańskie chamstwo? [133]

Niezależnie od czyichś zamiłowań do tego lub owego, czy zgodzilibyście się ze stwierdzeniem, że polska kultura i obyczajowość są raczej odtwórcze i naśladowcze a mało twórcze. Nie trzeba być megamocartswem, żeby coś własnego wylansować. Meksykańska salsa (taniec) zrobiła kareirę międzynarodową, a młode Beaujolais celebruje się dziś także w Japonii... Rok Chopinowski takiego piętna nie wycisnął.

News / What must be done to improve politics in Poland? [72]

There has been a German minority in Poland since the 19th century industrial revolution esp. in the Rhineland. How many generations does one have to live in a place to become a minority? The fact that Herr Hitler had most of them murdered, imprisoned or deported does not justify current Bundesrepublik piolicy. Those who survived the Third Reich were of course later joiend by economic migrants. If we want to take things ad absurdam, then all Germans living east of the Elbe should leave because originally that was Polabian (Slavic) country! Maybe the EU should recognise the Republic of Lusatia (£użyce) to do the job!?

Language / Capitalisation in Polish language; uncapitalised car marques (fiat, buick, honda)? [17]

I'll keep that in mind next time I need to write 'Scheiß'!

News / Polish robots in race for Mars [24]

Poland's Mars rover world's best

A Polish design team from Białystok's University of Technology has won a competition for the best Mars rover, beating competitors from Oregon State University and Ontario's York University. The trials were held at a simulated Mars base in the deserts of Utah.

Life / Uptight Poles [262]

There's a good word in Polish for the American/Western loud, loose & casual slob chic (including Brit-style laddism). It is CHAMSTWO!

Language / Capitalisation in Polish language; uncapitalised car marques (fiat, buick, honda)? [17]

In fact, according to Polish orthographic norms, not only car makes but also city dwellers (paryżanin, berlińczyk), religious orders (franciszkanin), months (czerwiec), days of week (sobota) and many other things that may seem strange to Anglos are in lower case. Or maybe it's the other way round and it’s English that’s got a capitalisation obsession. But it's not as bad as German where every noun (mother, dog, house, sh*t) has to be in upper case!

Food / Ok, what is it? Golumpkis or Golabkis? [13]

GO£ĄBKI: pronunciation roughly -- goWUMPkee
GO£UMBKI: dialectal pronunciation -- goWOOMPkee

Incidentally, when speaking english do we apply the ethnic/foreign or indigenous English pluralisation norm?
Is it pierogi (in English) or pierogis?
If so, we should say 2 zucchini not zucchinis, as the Italian singular is zucchino.

News / RHD cars in Poland - my campaign to change the rules in Poland [128]

Has anyone on PF ever driven a lhd car in the British Isles? How on earth would one overtake when driving behind a big coach or lorry? That is, without having the right half of the car sliced away by an oncoming vehicle.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

I like 4% ABV Donner Premium brewed by VanPur (part of Austria's Brau Union). It's the best of the lower-priced brands I've sampled. At different Carrefours a half-litre can ranges from 1,39 to 1,89 złotys. They've also got a 6.2% one for a few groszy more, but below 2 zł.

Genealogy / Popular Polish Names during the 1920s through the 40s? [16]

Nothing was normal in the 1939-1945 period. Able-bodied people were sent to slave labour, be it in factories or to the Reich to work for Bauers (German farmers), food was rationed, curfews were in force, only primary education was available to Poles. Even strictly following Nazi-imposed rules was no guarantee of safety. You could be peacefully walking down a street when a lorryload of German soldiers jumped out an rounded up everybody in sight. Some were never heard from again. The point is that if writing a novel about the period, it is war-time circumstances and considerations that must take the upper hand. Sheer survival was uppermost in everyone's mind.

Life / Is Lady Gaga popular in Poland? [47]

All i know is that the noise industry has only one goal: to fleece the gullible suckers who go to concerts, buy CDs, download the music, buy all the gadgets, etc., etc. And it keeps bloating and expanding thanks to the poor fools who don't realise that it's really only all about ₤₤₤ €€€ $$$ zł zł zł….!

Life / Is Lady Gaga popular in Poland? [47]

FlaglessPole
Ha, ha, ha... Justin Lumberjack has joined the show with Lady Zgaga. Now all we need is a Christina Agislutta for an unbeatable threesome!
As Poles say: Niech żyje popchałtura!

Genealogy / Where did Rafalik come from? [3]

RAFALIK: indeed the root of this hypocoristic form is the first name Rafał. Other pet forms include Rafałek, Rafałko, Rafek and Rafuś.

Life / Is Lady Gaga popular in Poland? [47]

Well, Poland is the home of Dodo, er, um...I mean Doda...so we've got a general idea of what Polish tastes are like.

Genealogy / How Polish am I? What is the correct formula? [58]


Of course there is. Otherwise how do you account for the Great Mulatto, who had a great-great-great grandfather from Ireland, being feted by the Irish as a compatriot visting the ancestral homeland?

BTW, Doberenski isn't quite right. Could it have been Dobryński? Two people in Poland use it. But some 8,000 sign themselves Dobrzyński. Maybe your relative modified the spelling.

Genealogy / Gniazdowski, Brzostek, Surzan - I would like to find my family tree and so forth [4]

GNIAZDOWSKI: topo nick from Gniazdów or Gniazdowo (Nestville)

BRZOSTEK; form brzost (Scotch elm - tree species)

SURZAN: from szurza - archaic word fro brother-in-law

Genealogy / Name "Mieczyslaw" / "Mietek" - Help on background! [11]

Maciej strcitly speaking is the Polish equivalent of Matthias. Both Matthias and Matthew (Maciej and Mateusz) come from a Hebrew root meaning 'gift of God' but got modified while travelling via Greek and Latin into other European languages.

Mieciu would defintiely be from Mieczysław (English: Miecislaus), but in family circles all kind of different things have happened to names, pet names and nicknames.

Food / Polish grape-wine industry emerging? [26]

Don't forget California. Some of their wines can rival the world's best! One of the California vineyards, Stag's Leap, is owned and operated by the PolAm (nomen omen) Winiarski family.

Food / Polish grape-wine industry emerging? [26]


The PC dictatorship has really nasr-ł ci do mózgu (excrementalised your brain).
I reckon you'd be happy only by hearing someone refer to p-ss poor winos as 'financially challenged non-teetotallers'.

News / Ustroń: Another giant religious statue in Poland [26]

Many countries are religiously deficient, esp. in decadent Western Europe.

News / Ustroń: Another giant religious statue in Poland [26]

Unlike a statue to the BVM, the Lutherans of Cieszyn shoudlnot object to a monument to Jesus.