Food / Herb used in Polish rosol (chicken soup)? [88]


Have you read "Holland and eastwards"?

Or tried to buy pietruszka in Western Europe?

Food / Herb used in Polish rosol (chicken soup)? [88]


Sounds a bit rude. At least it isn't pierdeczki.

And I am right. Hamburg Parsley isn't a common ingredient in Western Europe - it's basically Holland and eastwards.

Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]


Actually, it's a very broad vocabulary. We linguists are in an optimal position to assess this.

Interesting that you're trying to go off topic just to argue with your betters.

Are you familiar with CELEX (or its English-language source COBUILD)? A very meet and commodious resource for those of us who write textbooks.

News / Brutal rape by Polish man on homeless woman in Rome [50]


The 'western European media' didn't say he was Polish. The Polish media said he was Polish.

Food / Herb used in Polish rosol (chicken soup)? [88]

Go into a shop and ask for pietruszka - you'll get Hamburg Parsley. Ask for natka pietruszka, you'll get flat-leaf parsley.


In which decade did you last buy ingredients for rosol in Poland?

Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]

I have far broader lexical control than most people - hence a more nuanced choice of low frequency words.

Food / Herb used in Polish rosol (chicken soup)? [88]

The leaf is 'Natka Pietruszka' in Polish.

Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]


It isn't colloquial in mainstream UK English. As I say, check CELEX for the frequency - you'll find it's quite lower than the alternatives


This is possible. In the UK it would come across as older, posher, whiter and more likely to be written than spoken.


Same here, Albeit is OK, hitherto is a bit like seldom.

Food / Herb used in Polish rosol (chicken soup)? [88]


Not in Western Europe. Most people have never heard of Hamburg Parsley.


It's very different.


Flat-leaf parsley (only a tiny bit) is common, as is marjoram.

Food / Herb used in Polish rosol (chicken soup)? [88]


The one sometimes called "Jewish Penicillin". Both the kosher recipe and the usual one in Poland & Ukraine must have pietruszka - hard to get west of Holland.

News / Brutal rape by Polish man on homeless woman in Rome [50]

I think that came from the Polish article in 'natemat'.

Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]

It's a normal internet post, in standard educated English - formal enough for purpose. When writing online, (including in threads like this about teaching and education, where professionals have to be very aware of the register they use) it's important to be careful. Over-formal can come across as pompous - you often fall into this trap. There's also the issue of use of standard English, v. other variants like American English where there is a wide disparity in register between the formal and the informal.

I spend a lot of time with my postgraduate students undoing the damage caused by 'academic writing' courses that they've suffered.

I'm sure Delph has this issue, where kids' parents have odd ideas from courses they've taken.

News / Brutal rape by Polish man on homeless woman in Rome [50]


Corriera della Sera, in their English-language pages said "thought to be Polish". I don't know if there's a particular suspect, however there will doubtless be DNA traces which could track him down wherever he's from.

Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]


No issue provided it's a Bachelor's with QTS or followed by a PGCE. They could of course rename a PGCE as an MA or MSc. Not an MEd, which is best kept for research.

Not an Eastern European Licentiate though - that is insufficiently rigorous.


My posts are usually in formal English unless obviously otherwise. Check CELEX.

Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]


Indeed. They are well qualified, and their qualifications are standardised to European norms.


No, it is a more formal word today, rare in normal, direct speech. Check out the CELEX frequency before mouthing off.


Nothing is forever.

Travel / Horror House in Warsaw [20]

Remember it was chaos then, people fleeing homes, body parts, bits of uniform, improvised burials, often by troops that moved on, got killed and were far from local. Now it's usually just bones that people find.

My downstairs neighbour is a registered skull keeper (this exists), she has several from the wartime. She's a doctor.

Travel / Horror House in Warsaw [20]


There was heavy fighting in my district, even now people find things when digging.

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


Those pesky experts, daring to disagree en-masse with that great scientist Kaczynski.

News / Brutal rape by Polish man on homeless woman in Rome [50]

Do we actually know the alleged attacker is Polish. The newspapers ay the victim was tied to a pole, but I didn't see anything about the attack being by one...

News / Brutal rape by Polish man on homeless woman in Rome [50]


Surely it would be the Italian government, since the crime happened in Italy?

Travel / Horror House in Warsaw [20]

So it's something like a ghost train? The old ones are the best.

For me, a 'Horror House' has Urzad Skarbowy written on the front.

Study / Cheap International School for children in Poland [5]

Anywhere in Poland or a specific city?

Life / Apple v IBM computers in Poland [37]


They last for years and are very well built. More pleasant to use than windows too.

I only use Mac, except for occasionally at work, and even then, I tend to use my own Mac rather than the tinny Lenovo they gave me..


Both of these actually run better in their Mac version.

Life / Apple v IBM computers in Poland [37]


Considered expensive. They exist, however they're above most people's budgets. There are Apple shops in the big cities, however I suspect that MacBooks are only a small part of what they sell.

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


I suspect many things are.


That is probably the lamest excuse yet for the wanton destruction of Bialowieza by PiS...


Basically yes, and the standard "but Americans lynch blacks" argument, basically a criticism is somehow unjustified unless everything everywhere is perfect. Good to hear he equates the current regime to the not so rosy past.

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


A silly question. And you are still unable to justify the wanton destruction of Europe's largest virgin forest by the cretinous PiS regime and their crony capitalists.

Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]


Yet they rarely strike for better pay.


Language use changes fast.


"Rarely" is better nowadays. It is old fashioned and over-formal for speech, emails etc., and can sound artificial, pretentious or both.

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


They very obviously failed - there's no reasoned defence for the damage being inflicted in Bialowieza. It's entirely a case of reactionary individuals blindly being apologists for a reactionary and malevolent regime.

Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]


"Seldom"! It crops up in all these online dictionaries.


I can imagine - I've been on tours with some of those 'guides'. Their spiel tends to be quantity rather than quality. For kids, they should entertain.

News / Unhinged Israeli Arrested and Charged for Knife Attack on Polish Policeman [23]


I'm sure you don't need any excuses for your views.