News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


"Don't be fooled Mr President, Poland ain't Trumpland" - says The Guardian in response to your quotes from the WSJ.

The newspaper also talks about "bussing people in [to the Krasiński Square] from all over Poland" and suggests that the idea is "to make the big man [Mr. Trump] feel as good about himself as possible". PiS is working hard to tickle Trump's ego - it concludes.



Krasiński Palace, 1770. Painting by Bernardo Bellotto also known as Canaletto

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


The most famous was "I am for it and even against it" [Jestem za, a nawet przeciw]. Another funny one was: "The box with Pandora" rather than "Pandora's box" [Puszka z Pandorą vs. puszka Pandory]

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]

President Trump is going to deliver a speech in Krasiński Square in Warsaw on the 6th of July.

[picture of the square] On the left, the Krasiński Palace by Dutch architect Tylman of Gameren, bought out by the Treasury in 1765 hence its second name - the Rzeczpospolita Palace; the building of the Supreme Court is on the right .

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


Never heard of that before. Anyway, we do have the railway line from north to south on which you can travel in Pendolino trains (Gdynia-Kraków via Warszawa). Or perhaps they mean Via Baltica from Estonia to Bulgaria through Poland? But that is going to be a highway and not a railway line.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


What 'railway thingee' do you have in mind?

USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]



He's just repeated the opriginal joke of Radosław Sikorski who told it as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Donald Tusk (PO). Possibly Radosław Sikorski was showing some kind of irony, but against whom is largely unknown (Obama himself?, Polish missionaries?, cannibals?, Polish people tracing down Polish ancestry in everyone? - I think the latter one is the most probable).


Excellent!

Genealogy / Poland's distribution of I1 haplogroup (Germanic haplogroup) and influences from Europe [17]


Using terms such as 'specifically Polish' is of course a kind of simplification. We cannot talk of nationalities as defined through a specific set of genes. It is rather the pattern observed in a nation that defines that nation genetically. And this pattern changes in the course of history. The current project in genetics being carried out in Poland these days is aimed at determining how the genetic profile of the contemporary Polish population differs from the genetic profiles of the people of the Middle Ages in Poland and also of the people living here the Roman period (100-400 AD). The results will be very important since it may tell if the Slavic people migrated here from the Ukrainian steppe in the 6th century AD as it is commonly believed or they were the very native population of our land even as far back as in Roman times.


And you have what against my Polishness, you Russian troll Snotty? Do you really think that being Putin's agent makes you a star on the PolishForums?

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


What 'Poland's property' do you have in mind?

Genealogy / Poland's distribution of I1 haplogroup (Germanic haplogroup) and influences from Europe [17]


Did it tell your Y-chromosome haplogroup? What is it if's not a secret? The R1a is most common among the Polish people (about 50%).

Real Estate / Contact from a Łukasz Mróz about Krakow property inheritance is this a scam? [20]


So the theory of it being a scam has just collapsed.


And even the theory of an advance fee scam has collapsed!


The key question would be to assess how much the property is worth. If he offers you 35k euros for the 7% of your share, the whole entity should be assessed at half a million euros. It is obvious that he wants to earn something on top of that, so the next question would be how much is that 'top'. Now you don't tell us how big the building is and where in Kraków it is situated, so it's hard to tell what its approximate value could be.

News / Majority of Poles support same-sex civil partnerships [9]

There is nothing strange or shocking in it. Normal Polish people would surely understand and accept it except perhaps some noisy minority like Młodzież Wszechpolska or other extremist devil associations which are ideologically motivated .


Now, what do you want to say by saying "the beginning"? I don't think that marriage would ever be a proper form for the same-sex partnership simply because man shall never overcome Nature, and so marriage should remain exclusively reserved for different-sex partnership.

Genealogy / Poland's distribution of I1 haplogroup (Germanic haplogroup) and influences from Europe [17]

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Quite close to 'mare' in Latin or 'morze' in Polish.

Does anyone know of anyresearch telling the percentage of particular DNA haplogroups in the Welsh-speaking or Irish-speaking or Gaelic-speaking populations (all of them native)?

Polonia / The Polish Failures Club in Berlin [3]

It's interesting. I am surprised, however, that their headquarters is in central Berlin (Berlin-Mitte) which doesn't seem such a big failure after all.

Language / Poles struggle with English vowels [42]


Precisely that. And you cannot be too sure of yourself, even if you think you speak the foreign language perfectly. I remember a Russian lady telling me once she failed some exam for an EU Polish-English interpreter because one of her mistakes was using the form "dzieci poszli".

Phonetics was once my great hobby and English phonetics in particular. Others in the field were German and French (I didn't start to learn any language without getting to grips with its phonetics first). And if you went through all of them, you may say you know something about the phonetics of the European "vowel" languages. But Polish being a "consonant" language is a completely different story.

Language / Poles struggle with English vowels [42]


But it is not, Ms Atch! The English sound is considerably "wider", so to speak, and also stronger which means the lips of the speaker are opened with considerably greater force than when pronouncing the a in Polish "Pan".


That has reminded me of Reverened S. of the Anglican Church who once spent the full five minutes reproducing the sound 'a' in 'ration' for me. This was because he heard the sound of the short 'u' in the phrase I had uttered which phrase meant for him "Russian cards" rather than "ration cards". Reverened S. must have been in exceptionally good mood on that day since it was generally very difficult for me to elicit any answers to my ever-lasting calls to Englishmen for correcting my mistakes in spoken English. True, Reverened S. who was repeating 'ration' several times for me in front of other people (we all happened to be guests for more than one month in his house) made me feel quite embarassed with that, but since he delivered his sermons in such excellent and perfect English every Sunday, I simply had to forgive him his sin.

Law / How to register my UK motorcycle in Poland? [15]

The last time we have heard from Wildrover was from Moscow or Bulgaria. It was a rather long time ago.

Work / Dutch translator job Warsaw- salary? [21]


If she is a native speaker of Dutch, she would be readily able to translate garbled Dutch into perfect Dutch. The problem is, however, to contrast garbled Dutch with the French original in cases where garbled Dutch is so dubious that you cannot make it out to perfect Dutch. Thus someone should explain to you what the French text wanted to say. But if you are a specialist in the given area, it shouldn't be much of a problem for you.

Work / Dutch translator job Warsaw- salary? [21]


She is to translate from French into Dutch and not from French to Polish.

Surprisingly enough, I am truly amazed how good these machine translators can be these days. And the more specialized text they have to deal with, the better they are! I'm talking about the Google Translate doing the English-Polish or Polish-English translations of medium-difficulty texts in law or medicine. Of course, the translations need human correction afterwards, but the translators save you plenty of time retrieving many specialized terms (not all) from their base quickly, efficiently and accurately. The machine translators do not seem to be good for common language texts.

Polonia / Who still speaks pidigin Polish after many years in the country? [59]


I'd say that it is not the lips that matter in correctly pronouncing one and the other. It is the tongue which is chiefly responsible for the producing the sounds ś/ci and cz correctly.

For producing the former it is the tip part of the tongue which is mainly at work while for the latter the sides of the tongue are engaged mostly and the tip only slightly. Plus a different place of articulation for both sounds.

Cross-sections of the mouth cavity showing the position of the tongue would be of much help, I believe. A film exposing the movement of the tongue in the mouth cavity would be even better. Such short films helped me to learn the difference in pronounciation between certain English vowels and thus overcome:

Real Estate / Contact from a Łukasz Mróz about Krakow property inheritance is this a scam? [20]

Łukasz Mróz is a partner in a lawyers' company: NIKIEL I WSPÓLNICY - Adwokaci i Radcowie Prawni - Kraków, pl. Axentowicza 6/3, tel. +48 12 632 71 02; +48 12 623 75 25. However, their profile says nothing about property market, it is banking and finance or capital markets.

nwlegal.pl/Radca-prawny,adwokat-lukasz-mroz,pl.html


Is your Łukasz Mróz the same person as their Łukasz Mróz?

News / "Newsweek" inspiring assassination of Kaczyński? [10]


Those who are interested in what happens on Nowogrodzka just watch the "Ucho prezesa" series and they know.

Po polsku / Zamach na Kaczyńskiego? Inspiratorem będzie histeryczny antypisowiec Tomasz Lis [6]

Zamach na Jarka nigdy się nie uda. Jarek to jest człowiek grubej skóry i pociski będą się od niego odbijały. Nie chcę przez to powiedzieć, że jest to tzw. partyjny beton, tylko że to człowiek odporny na różne przeciwności losu.

Study / British Council CELTA in Krakow, how would you rate it? [60]


That one is really good - psychoterror coming from the East!

Genealogy / Polish First Names: Adam, Jadwiga, Ewa - in English [17]


Adam is 'means' in some biblical language (Hebrew ?), I am told.

"Jadwiga" has its German equivalent as can be observed in the name "Hedwig von Schlesien" or "Jadwiga Śląska" [Saint Hedwig of Silesia].

History / MS Jan Heweliusz disaster [3]

On a quick note, I remember very well this disaster being reported in the news at that time. From memory: the ferry was sailing from Świnoujście to a port in Denmark or Sweden when the main gate for receiving cars opened and water began to flood in. The weather conditions in the sea were extreme. All this happened during the night.

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Having checked the Wikipedia ("Katastrofa promu Jan Heweliusz") now, there is nothing about the main gate, however (I must have confounded that with the story of "Estonia" or it was reported in this way at the time). The description of the Heweliusz disaster is truly horrific. Safety procedures were evidently neglected.

The Wikipedia only has an article on that in Polish, no other language versions have been provided which is a great pity (my link is different from the one you have provided and gives a detailed description of the disaster).

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katastrofa_promu_Jan_Heweliusz

Life / Settle in Poland, which city is best? [30]


He may choose not to become a tax resident in PL then.

Life / Settle in Poland, which city is best? [30]

This is bizzare what you have said. Income elsewhere is not taxed in Poland. Can you point out to any regulation stating otherwise?


Why is that? Lublin is a nice city and is close to the Ukrainian border, but Warsaw will offer you better ways of communication to Russia.

Life / Driving skills of drivers in Poland? [41]


"Rossmann" is spelt with double s and double n - a bit like your other nick 'SS-notty'.

If your driving is as bas as your spelling, Roz should never come to Poland by car.

History / Vilnius Region must be returned to Poland! Right away! [10]


Who is "they" in "they give Konigsberg to Russia" since Konigsberg (Kaliningrad now) has already been in Russia's hands since 1945?

History / Poland's law and justice.. return of Sanacja? [19]


Judging by the overall results of the Sanacja rule in Poland, namely the very quick victory over Poland by the Nazi Germany in 1939 (Blitzkrieg), their governments were rather more disastrous than excellent. Notice that after September 1939, the officers of the Polish Army in the West (Sikorski et al.) generally judged the Sanacja people with contempt and no respect whatsoever. And they seem to have been right - Poland had been prepared for the war badly despite its army being quite large; the modern Polish warfare was sold abroad rather than left at home for the use by the army; and also the Sanacja economic policy was largely erroneous on the macro-economic level. At the same time, the Sanacja's propagandists were extremely loud in saying that in case a war broke out, our brave army were to arrive quite soon in Berlin defeating Hitler and its generals. As a result, people in Poland were truly shocked by the developments of war in 1939 and by the fact that the German army found itself near Warsaw so promptly.

So the lesson for you from all this is that shouldn't believe in everything what the propaganda tells you even if it is Jarosław Kaczyński himself who is behind that propaganda warfare.