Travel / Is there a healthy expats scene in Poland? (drinks, food, golf, etc.) [143]

Don't forget that there's also the International Women's Group. They have an office in the LIM Centre.

Also, for areas to live in, look at Zoliborz, Stara Ochota and Saska Kepa. All nice.

Travel / Is there a healthy expats scene in Poland? (drinks, food, golf, etc.) [143]

Perhaps you should check out the difference between an expat and an immigrant.

Law / How do i locate a polish company? [3]

I think they're imported to Poland by these people. If they're Polish-made then this firm may be able to advise:

karex.net.pl/index/strona/page/osklepie

Language / Stworzyć and Utworzyć [14]

Thanks!

Language / Stworzyć and Utworzyć [14]

That's quite a nice one - this should be both formal and very straightforward. You've given me an idea though. I might say " ''It was created to make ... space''

Language / Stworzyć and Utworzyć [14]

So subtle. How would you translate the example I gave?

Edit.

My first thought was to be creative and render it as "It exists in order to create...". Perhaps that's cheating.

News / More punch-UPS ON 11th NOV in Poland? [56]

That's not what a bystander last year saw. Even the sentiments you express in your post are aggressive.

Language / Stworzyć and Utworzyć [14]

That's the problem.

The sentence I'm trying to put nicely into English starts "Stworzono go, by utworzyć przestrzeń......".

News / "Plebs Out!" Roman Kuźniar, presidential advisor on educational matters talks about uni [14]

Hard to say what your grandparents have to do with anything, but evidently your time at private school and university wasn't very well spent since you have managed to misinterpret both the passage you originally quoted and my last post!

Either deliberately, basically ignorance, or not deliberately, basically stupidity. Which is true?

News / "Plebs Out!" Roman Kuźniar, presidential advisor on educational matters talks about uni [14]

Sounds fair enough to me - university isn't for everyone and never has been. Otherwise apprenticeships and technical colleges wouldn't have a role.

Strange that you're getting on a high horse about educational snobbery. I well remember on another forum it transpired that we come from quite near each other (you said you'd had a drink at The Three Houses at Christmas and so had I) then you promptly rattled out a list of all the fee-paying schools within 20 miles and asked which one I'd been to!

And I still don't see what the guy's private life 30 years ago has to do with anything. Sour grapes maybe...

Your understanding of the Polish text is, by the way, deeply flawed. Nothing at all about 'plebs'.

News / "Plebs Out!" Roman Kuźniar, presidential advisor on educational matters talks about uni [14]

I don't see what the point is of the gossipy stuff in this thread. Surely his relationships are his own business

Off-Topic / I am teaching my Polish friend English, advice needed [30]

Remember that the key is that people can speak more easily, freely and willingly in a foreign language on subjects they enjoy talking about in their own language. You can then use the language they produce to build up their vocabulary in that area and gradually get them to expand into different topics.

Life / Poles and the temperatures they heat their homes [36]


Spot on.

I know people here who won't even let their kids eat ice cream in case their throats get cold!

And the rutinoscorbin thing in winter too. I get stared at for not wearing hats, gloves, or layer upon layer of over warm clothes, but almost never get ill, whereas friends who dress up like Eskimos, neck those pointless rutinoscorbin things and wear slippers, pyjamas etc are przeziebiony throughout the winter.

News / Papal Day in Poland JP2 [26]


Indeed. I seem to remember referring to it myself in the post before yours.

IFLEITY however is an archaic word, occurring in certain Kashubian village dialects meaning great-grandmother.

Life / Poland: When usually is the best time to change from summer to winter tyres? [42]

Doesn't the insurance policy specify when they have to be changed?

News / Papal Day in Poland JP2 [26]

From: wordnik.com/words/illeity


If a word is used often enough, perhaps it will end up in the dictionary.

News / Papal Day in Poland JP2 [26]


It wasn't - nothing special, the time warp that sections of Polish society was stuck in is fading away.

Richfilth, maybe you know the OP...

News / Papal Day in Poland JP2 [26]

There's a word 'illeity'. Obscure though.

News / Papal Day in Poland JP2 [26]

As well he might, given that his name is among those at the bottom. Nevertheless, it doesn't say anything about a deceased former pope being the "supreme authority".

People can make their own minds up. As that article accurately suggests, the church is only one influence among many.

News / Papal Day in Poland JP2 [26]


I thought McDonalds was the supreme authority, closely followed by the Coca Cola company, Jogobella, and God.

UK, Ireland / Polish Pirate Radio Station In Nottingham 87.5 FM ca.2008 [8]

There used to be a good one in Leeds. Weekends only and didn't interfere with other stations.

Life / E-books in Poland? [10]

Yes, yes and yes.

Except the proprietary hardware sold by Empik is probably the best known.

Law / Famous brands which had to give up Poland [11]

A fast food chain from the US. If you haven't heard of it, I assume it isn't a nationwide one. It appeared in Warsaw about 10 years or so ago and vanished quickly.

History / A state funeral for the last of the Polish Habsburgs [5]

Was it a state funeral?

Law / Famous brands which had to give up Poland [11]

There was King Pie in Warsaw for a while. People didn't really know what it was about.

Travel / There is only one railway station in Warsaw Chopin airport? [12]

Very easy, especially if you have GPS.

If you're coming from Siemiatycze (lovely town) you'll either come the top or the bottom way (Wyszkow/Marki way or Sielce/Minsk way). Just follow signs; the roads are much better than they used to be 5 years ago thanks to the Nobel Prize-winning EU.

I don't remember any airport signs in the east of town, but they may well be there now. If not, the new outer ring road isn't complete yet so if you come the top way; you need to keep going until Trasa Torunska/Armia Krajowa becomes Prymasa Tysiaclecie and keep going until you see the airport signs near the turn off for Zwirki I Wigury. Basically anti-clockwise through the suburbs on one dual carriageway. If you come in the bottom way, just follow the dual carriageway clockwise round town, along Trasa/Lazienkowska until it becomes Armia Ludowa and you come to the same airport junction, at Zwirki I Wigury. From there, it's plain sailing.

Allow plenty of time for traffic jams, especially on Monday and Friday.

Travel / There is only one railway station in Warsaw Chopin airport? [12]

You can buy the tickets on the train - go to the first carriage though. You might want to write down the word £ódź on a piece of paper ;-)

BTW, I agree with Ziemowit, you should go via Centralny. They have ticket machines there that accept cards, and as for walking - you may find you have to walk further at Zachodni.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]


Do tell.

Though I'm not holding my breath for you to be able to provide the slightest shred of evidence that 'there are more of them'.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]


Now those guys are very family orientated indeed. Their religion has a very high turnover of members, however among the ones who are either devout or second/third generation, I've never met one I didn't like.