Love / How many Polish girls are married to foreigners? / How many Polish boys to foreign girls? [104]

You've misquoted me. As well as writing nonsense. Kindly delete right away.

News / Poles, Polonians and aliens on Pussy Riot? [182]


And that is irrelevant. Doing their stuff in a church wouldn't be neccessary in the UK, the US, Poland, France etc. In Russia a different paradigm applies. If Russia was a bit less autocratic with opposition activists and journalists murdered on the direct orders of the president they wouldn't have needed to make that gesture at all.


Not that Russia has a legal system worthy of anything other than contempt.


I'd rather see every church in the world (except the architecturally or archeologically interesting ones) put to the torch than ***** Riot imprisoned.

Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]


But which 12 percent? ;-)

Law / SKOK Stefczyka? [5]


A thousand times more reliable and a longer history.


Not quite any of those. A few similarities to a Friendly Society but again, not the same. Not a sparkasse or a 'plankton bank' either, but similarities to all of those.

Love / How many Polish girls are married to foreigners? / How many Polish boys to foreign girls? [104]


Poland has its share of dog rough people.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]


One problem with this is that there is a discontinuity between pre and post-war Warsaw. So many of the people were killed - at least two-thirds and many others left. Most of the people there now were either brought in from smaller towns and villages in the 1950s, 60s and 70s or are descended from people who were. And of course people move to the capital from all over the country because of their work. The result is a kind of Estuary Polish.

An old Warsaw resident told me that the pre-war Warsaw accent was quite sibilant - lots of sh and ch. I've met elderly people who've spent their entire lives there, even through the Uprising and the massacres that followed but I can't say I've noticed that. People's accents can change with time and exposure to others.

There used to be a programme on Polish television that showed fragments of pre-war films with a commentary. Most of the actors were of course cultured so perhaps their accents weren't typical.The accent was very different from today's - closer to that of educated bourgeois elderly people I know who came from Vilnius, Grodno etc.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

This thread put me in mind of an old lady who lived in the village I grew up in. She was at least middle class - perhaps even 'county' and was the widow of the area's largest farmer. She lived in quite a grand house built by her husband's family in the Eighteenth Century, came from money herself, was very articulate and cultured however someone from the home counties might just hear a Yorkshire accent and make a very incorrect assumtion about her.

I suspect there are/were quite a few people like that in Poland. People whose vowel sounds are similar to those around them, but speak in a different register.

UK, Ireland / Polish Family stabbed to death in St Helier. [40]

Rzeszowski's saying that voices in his head told him to do it. The prosecution say he is habitually violent.

The court reached a verdict:


bbc

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]


That's a good description. I suppose mine is educated Yorkshire. It has a bit more in common with RP than with any dialect and is several social degrees higher than, say, Estuary English and a bit of an old fashioned sound.


I suspect not as much as you would like to think.

History / Forced Polonisation campaign? [16]

Thousands of people actually like it.

Work / Teaching English in Poland without TESL certificate? [17]


You wouldn't be required to use Polish in the classrooom - many schools do not allow that.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]


A friend from Lwow sounded just like that. He wasn't old - he'd be 46 now.

There are still accents - it's easy to tell he difference between a Poznan person and a Warsaw person.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


I'd go as far as to say that pretty well all politicians do, especially when they reach high office.

By the way, the first lady, Dr Komorowska speaks English. With me only spoke Polish, however at the gathering where we met there were a number of dignitaries from the Arab world present and I heard her speaking English with reasonable ease.

History / 75th anniversary of Stalin's 1937-38 anti-Poland genocide [32]

The Bolsheveiks won the Russian Civil war. Then he had the Gulag stystem.


No, No, No.

His name wasn't unpronouncable - it was Dzugashvili. Translates to English as 'Shepherd. Stalin means 'man of steel' not 'steal' (why the capitals?) and he didn't change it to appease anyone, he adopted it as a pseudonym (one of several he used - his favourite was 'Soselo' the name under which he was a celebrated Georgian poet) while he was on the run from the Tsarist secret police.

Learn some history - preferably not from websites.

Travel / Custom Restrictions for Income Devices in Poland [4]

All that sort of stuff is available here at the Apple Store in various malls.

You don't say though how many you plan to bring - whether it's just a few presents or wholesale quantities.

USA, Canada / Warsaw or New York? Where to work, raise a family, etc... [14]


Yes - but avoid one with a similar name in Piaseczno.

History / 75th anniversary of Stalin's 1937-38 anti-Poland genocide [32]

Because they were drafted into it and didn't have connections with the ancien regime. Read the thread.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]

So the PiS demographic.

Anyway - the President is for everyone who lives there, and since 1989 there hasn't been a better one.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


You seem to be implying that you're neither.


I'd even go a bit further and say he was a laughing stock at home as well as abroad.


Exactly - and he acquitted himself very well during the recent EU Presidency.

Komorowski has his weaknesses as well as strengths, howeve at long last Poland has something that it hasn't had before in the 3rd republic - a President with dignity.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


Compared to his predecessor who was an international laughing-stock, very much so.

History / 75th anniversary of Stalin's 1937-38 anti-Poland genocide [32]


The obvious what?

Either start making sense or stop trolling.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


Most Poles are. And yes, one could say "just look at them"

Part of his appeal stems from the fact that he comes across as a man of the people.

Travel / A week in Lodz - genuine taxi, trams, night safe? [7]


The name of a company on top. Lodz airport isn't far from the centre anyway.


Yes


Yes, though the usual precautions are sensible.


No. There isn't much worth seeing in the surrounding area, but a trip to Warsaw might be a good idea.


At any newsagent or kiosk. They are labelled either 'Ruch', 'Kolporter' or (the best ones) 'Relay'. There is one at the airport, and the airport one is most likely to have an English speaker in.

UK, Ireland / Poles 'failing to integrate in the UK'? [58]


Working mens' clubs are closing by the dozen, Polish or not. And the generation coming to the UK are products of the post-communist 'free for all' - suspicious of community involvement unless there's something tangible in it for them. Normal in Poland.

Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]


Stick to home made.

Mind you, when it's made well it's excellent. When it isn't (and it usually isn't) it's disgusting.

History / 75th anniversary of Stalin's 1937-38 anti-Poland genocide [32]


Perhaps you'll link to a quote where I said that.

But somehow I doubt it.

Amazing how a troll can turn a thread about the Stalin years into something about race - without actually making any points either.

History / 75th anniversary of Stalin's 1937-38 anti-Poland genocide [32]

What's the surprise. People who worked for Stalin had liottle or no choice in the matter and it's frankly unlikely that someone would be attracted to nationalism in a country that had discriminated against then terribly.

BTW, admiting what?

Trolling again?

History / 75th anniversary of Stalin's 1937-38 anti-Poland genocide [32]


He deliberately drafted them since they were less likely to be Russian nationalists.

When Stalin (an ex seminarian) wanted something, the only choice was his.

Life / An Indian wants to convert to Christianity in Poland [60]


There are between 24 and 27 million Christians in India including the head of the ruling political party, the Minister of Defence and many other public figures.


Where are you from originally?
If you don't speak Polish, there's a few churches in Poland that perform masses in English. Not sure of the details, but it might be worth looking into.

Every Sunday there's a Mass on ul. Radna in Warsaw.

Life / What's the deal with Polish Piracy? [27]

Six factors, any one of which is sufficient. A mismatch between price and income. A history of having to get round scarcity. A history of having to circumvent the law. A philosophy that it's OK to do something if you can get away with it. The belief that if someone doesn't protect their property from being taken it is available to take. A tradition that if something doesn't obviously belong to one person, it belongs to nobody.