News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]

I wouldn't say that PiS economic policy goes as far as that of Greece and certainly does not it go as far as in Venezuela. I should remind you that PiS was rather cautious about their economic plans in the years 2005-2007 when in power. Nothing that you would call a reckless economic policy at that time.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Yes, she does indeed. But may there be even more skeletons in the closet? This ridiculous Brexit affair is becoming more and more interesting day by day...

Cameron promised a referendum on any treaty with the EU (if he became PM) as early as in September 2007. In an article for the Sun he even called his promise a "cast-iron guarantee". In October 2011, David Nuttall MP, chairman of the Better Off Out group of MPs proposed an EU Referendum Bill in the House of Commons. Despite it being opposed by all main parties, the motion gained the support of 119 MPs. This helped trigger the chain of events that led to Cameron making another promise to offer a referendum on EU membership in 2017. [Tim Newark, "Protest Vote. How Politicians Lost the Plot", 2014]

Yea, a chain of events, it seems ...

Language / How do you literally translate Home Sweet Home in Polish [22]


That's a good one. Never heard it before! It has reminded me of the commie times "transformation" of another well-known old saying: Czym chata bogata, tym rada into a more up-to-date one: Tym chata bogata, co ukradnie tata!

Language / How do you literally translate Home Sweet Home in Polish [22]

No, it shouldn't. This expression has retained its archaic form and is used as such in our days. The phrase implies movement here (gość przybywa w dom - accusative) and not place (gość jest w domu - locative) as in your example.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Juncker was the prime minister of Luxembourg when that country was turning itself into a European tax heaven. He may be a maniac, but he is a maniac with his hands deep inside everyone else's pockets. Tusk is just a clown who thought he may safely go away to Brussels and leave the invincible PO behind him in Poland. But the great leader of the nation (Harry's expression), Jarosław Kaczyński, has overtaken Tusk's party with his "18% majority" democracy (Harry's expresion again). Now in Europe things take a completely different course, but the eurocrats will never understand the new reality which is arising, so they simply must be replaced. They seem to think "they are doing the work of God" just as some banksters used to think in the past.The entire structure of the EU should be profoundly reformed.

Language / How do you literally translate Home Sweet Home in Polish [22]


It does and this equivalent is 'dom'. The noun 'dom' has several meanings in Polish, but the two principal ones correspond exactly to the English (1) 'house' and (2) 'home'. When I want to say that I was away from home yesterday, I will say 'Nie było mnie wczoraj w domu' even if I live in a flat.

A rough equivalent for the English 'home sweet home' may be the Polish phrase 'domowe pielesza', but that definitely isn't appropriate as a sign to hang above the fireplace mantle. A nice Polish expression describing reverence to your guests is "Gość w dom, Bóg w dom".

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]

There is no such thing as church divorce in RCC. Annulement of marriage is called "unieważnienie małżeństwa" in Polish. This means that the RCC states that a particular marriage has never been valid, so it has not existed really. I think civil annulement of marriage exists, but must be applied for in a given, rather short time ("non consumatum" is probably the main reason for it) immediately after the marriage took place. Civil marriage is just a contract between the two sides, whereas religious marriage seems to be more than that.

UK, Ireland / London's POSK smeared with anti-Polish grafitti [150]


You don't have to. She has never been in anyone's team. She's independent, you know.


This is simply ridiculous even for me who have his index cards always ready to use ...

Life / Poland after one year of living here [105]


There must be something in it. Notice that he said exactly the same in his other thread created a year ago, only one month after his arrival to Poland. He also says he cannot write in Polish (so can he read it?). Personally, I would think his knowledge of Polish may be poor and restricted to some few useful phrases.


It is best not to eat any cakes, be it British or Polish, unless you are a slim person.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


You are right here. But believe me, neither PiS nor the nation as a whole do not think seriously about leaving the EU. And even without all the financial gain Poland has from the EU, I am sure people would vote to stay in. You've been simply influenced too much by the British libtards' propaganda on this forum to believe otherwise ...


You have been drinking too much recently and that is your real problem, not the Brexit.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


I'd be very much surprised if they did otherwise. Calling for referenda or calling the bureaucrats in Brussels to listen to the voice of people has been conveniently dismissed by them as "democratic populism" so far. If you don't know what I mean, just remember the British gang on the PF calling the results of the latest election in Poland an "18% democracy" or something like that. Now this "democratic populism" has slapped Brussels in the face.

Getting down to a deeper level, there are simply too many people on a relatively small island such as Britain (and in England in particular). However loudly the libtards (including the libtards on the PF) may praIse immigration, an ordinary man-in-the-street of the UK feels that enough is enough and believes that the continuous inflow of people to the UK will be better controlled if the UK is out of the EU than if it is in. Another matter is whether the goal to stop people from coming to the UK is achievable at all. But maybe despite the fact the Roman Empire didn't achieve that, the tiny remains of the British Empire led by brave Cameron are just able to do so.

Life / Poland after one year of living here [105]

Before listening to any advice, you should have a sound diagnosis first :

P-r-o-b-l-e-m 1


* Symptom : I am not able to experience any occasional (socializing) contacts with people
* Reason : ? (try to find any possible reasons for that on your side before finding any on the "Polish" side, it's not really a game to blame anybody, after you find the reasons on your side, move to naming the reasons on the "Polish" side)

* Cure : ? (suggestions welcome, but only after making the diagnosis)

There is some fun in it, but if you fancy that, you may try this "diagnosis" game. It is indeed a sort of self-diagnosis with a little help from your "friends".

Life / Poland after one year of living here [105]


I think this is not for him. The OP is looking for some social contacts. In one of his previous threads which he started only after a month-long stay in Poland, he complained of the same problems as he does now. He admitted working remotedly from home, so he evidently lacks contacts with people other than his wife and child or occasionally his in-laws. Don't advocate him any hobbies which don't involve contacts with people as he has one such which is the work he loves.

I think he really has a problem. Even a computer-geek type which I suspect he may be one to some extent needs socializing. A workplace where you can meet other people offers you a chance for that and is a welcome change from living exclusively in the family circle. When I used to live in the UK for some time which was living in an environment completely strange to me, I affiliated myself to an institution where I could go and meet people other than my British friends with whom I was staying and with whom I was perfectly OK. I think such an opportunity may be a very refreshing one for the OP. For example, I imagine he may volunteer to teach English for two hours a week (teaching children might be even more exciting than teaching adults perhaps). If I were to live in a family circle only, I would have gone mad quickly, so the OP has had a lot of patience so far. Living in a foreign country is exciting in itself, but you must find a kind of balance in it, too. The life of the OP is in a way very imbalanced and that is his real problem, not the social "infrastructure" of Poland to which you may gradually get used to.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Slightly off-topic. Would Brexit be much welcomed by the people of France? I asked myself this question before answering the opinion poll in the French quality paper LE FIGARO:

"Souhaitez-vous que la Royaume-Uni reste dans l'Union européenne ?"

lefigaro.fr/actualites/2016/06/21/01001-20160621QCMWWW00109-souhaitez-vous-que-la-royaume-uni-reste-dans-l-union-europeenne.php

It is only after having voted yourself that you can see the results of the poll. I thought the result would be around 50-50, but I was very much surprised to see the majority of those who participated wanted the UK to get out of the European Union (64% "non' against 36 % "oui")! So, enough of entente cordiale with the UK for the frog-eaters?

News / Monthly Smolensk Commemorations in Poland! [34]


Well, if he did that really, he must certainly have some mental issues, I can see no other reason for that. Beata Szydło promised in her electoral campaign that Macierewicz wouldn't be taken to her government as a minister. That promise wasn't kept, however ...

Language / Problems Polish People Have with Learning English [63]


This is it. I made this mistake once, but in the opposite direction. Reverened J. repeated "ration cards" several times to me as he heard me saying "Russian cards". Reverened J. of the Scottish United Reformed Church delivered excellent sermons in Queen's language during the mass I attended every Sunday.


I would point out that the stress should be on "li" here. Both consonants sz and cz should be pronounced with the same force, in fact they tend to form one sound: "szcz".


Yes and in my previous post I think I perhaps confounded (I'm not a linguist) NSS with Natural English Intonation, so to speak (or are those the same, in fact?). Whereas I had few problems with the syllabic stress in a particular word, the very characteristic rythm and melody of different types of English sentences was a real challenge. Intonation of an English sentence may be very different from the intonation of a Polish sentence.

Language / Problems Polish People Have with Learning English [63]


Oh yes, at one point my pronounciation was nearly perfect. Back in my student times, when I talked on the phone from the home of an Englishman I was staying with, he was later told by his friends who phoned him that they thought the person speaking on the phone was English! That was only about two weeks after my arrival in London from Poland. It clearly means I must have come to the British capital with Received Pronounciation already on hand. And indeed I did as the BBC course on Polish TV I watched ("Slim John") was supplemented by the Warsaw University scholars with a part showing how to pronounce the English vowels and diphtongs correctly. Mobile graphic techniques were used to show the learner how the tongue moves inside the mouth to produce a particular English vowel or diphtong sound. And I was a rather keen learner in that TV course which later on resulted in almost every person in England being sincerely amazed that one was able to acquire RP to such an extend in living outside England or an English family.

I generally have a good ear for languages, but my feeling is that without proper theory and that "graphic support" on a TV screen I wouldn't have been able to get to all the nuances of RP just relyuing on my listening abilities. English is particularly difficult to learn as far as the proper pronounciation of vowels and diphtongs is concerned. Natural syllabic stress (NSS) is in my view the most difficult thing to achieve by a foreign learner of English. Basically you have to live totally immersed for some time in an English-speaking environment. I think I finally got to it only at the last month of my 5-month stay in England. Prior to that NSS seemed to me "weird" or "bizzare" and I had just been deeply "intimidated" to apply it to my English before I crossed that psychological barrier. This was also the first thing I lost when my continuous contact with the spoken language stopped. NSS is no longer present in my English and in addition to that my fluency has deteriorated significantly, but this I believe is quite normal when you don't use the spoken language on a daily basis.

Language / Problems Polish People Have with Learning English [63]


While in Poland, learn English with the BBC. I did and I have no problem with reading the PolishForums now.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]



Et oui, M. Polonius has mizpelt ze names to give zem an elegante French look. Francja-elegancja, you see.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


If the EU is so wonderful, why is the UK going to vote to remain in it? Just to confirm that the EU is wonderful?

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]


What proof for that (Ziobro's motives: ethnicity vs. crime)?

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]


He is not for a time being. He left the court in Kraków not a long time ago with the court turning down the American plea for his extradition. The verdict was final and what sheriff Ziobro is planning now is an extraordinary measure which is filing an appeal with the Supreme Court to cancel this verdict.

Roman Polański at present prepares a huge project on the Dreyfuss affair to be filmed mostly in Poland.

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]



Yep, and since when Harry is a right winger, Delph?

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]


No, it is not. Harry explained it very well in his post #16 (page one of this thread)


It's all about the fact Roman was having sex with a child, Delph.

News / Polish bishop caught with 2,5 promille [45]


A two-year (!) suspended stuff for a first-time offender and with no human damage resulting from it would be a typical ruling for the typical Jan Kowalski in such a case - my acquaintances in the Polish legal system inform me. So the bishop was no exception here. Btw, your 'allies' in this thread were ridiculing a supposedly much less severe sentence, but now you are pushing the 'laughable' stamp for such a rulaing very much upwards, so it is likely that a sentence of, say, 12 years in prison for this deed would be merely called 'moderate' rather than 'severe' by you in the case of the offender being a Catholic bishop.

The ruling was in fact the 2-year suspension of a six-month in-prison sentence.

News / Polish bishop caught with 2,5 promille [45]


First, since neither of the British posters lamenting over the shameful state of the RCC and the state of the courts in Poland said nothing of the final ruling in the bishop's case, it seems very likely that the sentence wasn't such a farce as it was supposed to be according to those posters.

Second, the info is here, if you can read in Polish:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Jarecki

News / White, Catholic, Polish bus bomber caught [28]

Let's remind all the British expacts posting in this thread of another white man, an American of Polish origin nicknamed 'Unabomber", whose name was... surprise surprise ... KACZYNSKI. His first name was neither Lech nor Jarosław which is a great pitty, nevertheless he was a perfect piece of proof that the Kaczynskis of the white race are capable of doing the most hideous things, not only in America, but in Poland as well.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]

There is supposed to be a Sunni one in Kraków

History / 13 of December - the anniversary of MARTIAL LAW in Poland [48]


At the time before Marshal Law was introduced, no one really knew if the Russians would invade Poland or not. This was on the mind of many people in Poland and they thought it would most probably happen, if Solidarity went too far. 1981 was not too far in time from the year 1968 when the Warsaw Pact armies orchestrated by the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia and only a little farer from 1956 when the USSR invaded Hungary.

I remember a joke on BBC Radio 4 on that:
- Mr Brezhnev, what do you think of the American invasion of .............. (sorry, but I've forgotten what country the Americans were invading at that time)

- The Soviet Union condemns it utterly! And in this condemnation we have the support of the people of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan and next week I hope to have the support of the people of Poland as well ... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (Brezhnev laughs for quite a time)

Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]

If you are an IT specialist and you are quoting you salary as 160/k a year and at the same time comparing it to 120/k a year in Poland without ever mentioning in your original post the rate of exchange on the level of 1 : 17 (one to seventeen !!!), then there must be something wrong with your maths and thus with your professional skills in IT.