Travel / Wroclaw airport to the city center-how? [5]

there is a direct bus from the airport to the centre - I don't know the current fares but I guess it is about 3 PLN - I have no idea about taxis these days - it was long time since I ridden any taxi in Wrocław - my guess (from the distance) is 30-40 PLN - if you need to get to the centre (like railway station) quick taxi is the way to go as depending on time of the day a bus ride can take as much as one hour (though these is extreme and according to the timetable the ride is less than half an hour) (well it was back in my days in Wrocław and some new roads have been built since then wich alleviate traffic jams)

I'm pretty sure someone can inform you much more precisely

Food / Could you recommend me a fresh Polish juice from fruit? [18]


aronia is full of tannins but elderberry not at all - I know cause we occasionally make elderberry juice as a winter preserve (it's quite tasty though some people don't like the flavour)

aha and elderberry is not aronia and aronia is not elderberry - they are not even close in flavour and neither are botanically (all they share is similar though different colour of the fruit)

Life / Struggling young Polish couple - try to solve their problem [176]


because Poland is very different country to live in when you've got your house built and some money to start a business Fuzzy (especially when you are Polish)


there are not so many cities nor towns on Polish German border to begin with - next - you can have a quite well paid job in service sector on the Polish side (as Germans often go to car mechanic and hair dresser to the Polish side because it's cheaper) - next - the German areas next to the Polish border are among those poorest in Germany with not so many jobs and high unemployment among Germans themselves - there is some strange result to this: Poles are buying up property on the German side of the border around Szczecin because it is a lot cheaper than on the Polish side and they commute back to Szczecin where they work or run businesses (this is not massive scale but it attracts attention)

USA, Canada / Problem with mother in law's US visa (Warsaw interview denied her) [10]


I think so, but I may be wrong here - I do not base all these on my personal experience just a short internet query (in Polish) - the affidavit gets often called Zaproszenie do USA in Polish internet

Life / Edyta Herbuś - The "Polish Sophie Lauren" [8]

she just happens to be pretty, she is not really a great actress, neither she has enough wits and class to host TV shows that are not taken down after a season

USA, Canada / Problem with mother in law's US visa (Warsaw interview denied her) [10]

uscis.gov

you need to somehow officially confirm the form after filling in

Food / Could you recommend me a fresh Polish juice from fruit? [18]

why don't you go for those fruit juices in cartons - sure they are more expensive but typically good qualtiy and tasty - there are lots of tastes too - many contain fruit pulp and are simply delicious (jabłko antonówka from Tymbark is very good, there is also plum juice from some producer by don't remember which one, it's got fruit pulp in it too) - juice in karton deos not neet any preservatives as it is not affected by light and it's typically not as sweet as bottled juice - and yes Kubuś went to the dogs - it once was very thick stuff but the competition started selling much cheaper stuff which was much more watery and people have fallen for that trick - still it is good to have some of these even watery things from for example Biedronka (they have green, yellow and orange variety and the colour comes only from the fruit (and vegs) used

aha there is a caveat to cartonned fruit juices - some cheap brands have sweeteners (aspartam and other) instead of sugar and they taste really bad - always read the ingredients part on the packaging

Language / Mam silnego kaca! Why is this genitive/dopełniacz? [34]

sure it is ok - because it creates no ambiguity - it;s actualy broadening of virile noun type of declination onto other masculine nouns

Language / Mam silnego kaca! Why is this genitive/dopełniacz? [34]

it's just that genetive and accusative are the same for some nouns - all virile masculine nouns and a whole group of other masculine nouns (but only in singular - among them are all masculine living things (the gender of noun matters not the actual gender))

News / Why are PO and PiS the most popular political parties in Poland? [15]


yes - plenty of corruption and not really much done and nothing done on time - this is called focus on economy a la PO

Language / Would someone be able to explain when to use być and bywać with regard to adjectives? [10]

Ona jest szczęśliwa. - She is happy.
Ona bywa szczęśliwa - She is happy from time to time.

I won't expand with technical terms this time :)

Language / "żółwik" - the same word?? [55]

you can be more specific in this case simply (as robal robak is quite general) - in case of angler's worms they are colloquially called 'glizdy' and traditionally and scientifically 'dżdżownice'

if a Polish person doesn't know how to specifically call some little creature they will surely say 'robaki' 'robale' 'robactwo'

when an angler says 'idziemy nakopać robaków' you will know he means 'dżdżownice' out of your knowlegde aboout angling (though 'białe robaki' in angler's speak (white worms) are carrion flies larvae and you don't dug'em out normally )

Genealogy / My father from Lublin - Boris Cusazc [6]


Kusacz can actually be Ukrainian - a cognate of Polish Kąsacz -(this is a just a guess) the first name Borys is also not typiacally Polish but Russian (or Ukrainian generally Orthodox) - btw boletus you have any idea where Polish ornitiologist had taken the kusacz name for these South American birds? the etymology is completely obscure to me

Language / "żółwik" - the same word?? [55]

the thing is colloquial 'robak', 'robal' etc is not equal to scientific term 'robak' which is more or less the same as English scientific 'worm' - and from a short search I have found that many people call specific beetle larvae 'worms' which they are not from scientific point of view - I am not sure but I guess those 'grubs' you find in in apples or plums (not those bought in a supermarket because these are extensively sprayed with chemistry) are typically called 'worms' in English and they are moth larvae (and not worms from scientific point of view) - one thing they certainly share is the shape - one thing Polish 'robale' have in common is they are small and insect-like

Language / "żółwik" - the same word?? [55]


I pretty much believe what you call worms in English are actually various not really related groups that only share similar shape - then some of these worms become bugs in their adulthood - and you say it's much more logical in English

Language / New Dialects in Western and Northern Poland [24]


I don't know about written language but spoken language of the Mazurians was very similar to the Polish dialects just across the border like Kurpian dialect (Masurian settlers simply originated from lands more to the south and filled the void that was created by extermination of Jotvingians - btw the term Mazur itself meant an inhabitant of Mazowsze originally)

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]


or even there should be abortion on the demand of the father only if there is gonna be equality in abortion on demand, no?
so abortion is not a straightforward issue liberals would like to think

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]


why is that shameful actually

I would think killing unborn children is shameful - not for the women in question but rather for those who allow for it

yes, there is one thing that is not OK with Poland - it's the condemnation of women who get pregnant from casual sex out of wedlock - there is no point and no need for such a condemnation - it only heavily adds to the pressures that makes women consider abortion - so quite a counter-constructive measure for a presumably christian society

Real Estate / Gdańsk - Safe and decent residential areas? [14]


a travel nightmare if you try using public transport - perhaps it's different with a car - but there are certain streets that get clogged regularly on any given working day (Kartuska street for example, I think Słowackiego is quite similar in that respect)

News / Why are PO and PiS the most popular political parties in Poland? [15]


there is no 'middle' party in Poland (or if it is it's not PO but PSL) - PO simply hijacked the 'middle' because the system (thanks to the media) pushed PiS out of the middle (actually it's PiS that are christian democrats with a bit more socialist approach (and that not that much if you compare how much of a welfare state Germany is and how much Poland now) )

PO is a party of shady deal makers including the top ranks and of those who seek easy money and time (Roman Kosecki and Iwona Guzowska are serious politicians?))

Language / 'lubię, lubisz' - Infinitive [86]


they are both correct but in different situations/contexts

(it's a simplification a bit but won't hinder your understanding of Polish spoken or written language most of the time)

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


isn't Germany supposed to cooperate with it's neighbours in the EU rather than an external power which Russia is? Germany has given Russia a tool to pressurize Poland. One early result is Poland pays more for Russian natural gas then Germany does. And a new pipeland could have run through nothing but Russia and EU states (Latvia, Lithuania, Poland). Poland does not have a history of not paying for it's gas (though the economic situation in Poland was quite dire in the late 90's)

Proportional representation in Euro parliament means that every country has a percentage of seats in the parliament that is equal to the percentage its population forms in the EU.

While it sounds perfect at first it's enough to have a couple of thought experiments. Imagine a situation where you have a union of Germany and say 20 states the size of Slovenia. These 20 states would have no say in a governing body of the union. Why joining or staying in such union altogether? In our real situation Germany, France and Italy (plus Spain I think) have jointly more population than the rest of the EU. If they want to have a strategical partnership with say Russia at the cost of other EU countries interests they can have it.

Squar root model prescribes a number of seat in a representational body that is proportional to the square root of the population of any member state.

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


ever heard of Nord Stream?
ever heard of proportional representation in the Euro Parliament? and what happened to Poland when it suggested a square root model? I wonder btw if Germany counts in all those millions of Turks who live and work in Germany and don't have a German passport ?

what is good for Germany is good for Europe right?

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


the thing is such though experiment is useless because no matter what happens with the EU no sane Polish government would do that - and sentiment for old borders is much greater in Germany than in Poland - there is NOT A SINGLE organization in Poland that promotes getting back some territory in the east - even the most nationalistic organization - that there are some misguided individuals who happen to spam forums about it is just the bundle transaction of the freedom of speech on the Internet

you were big and important before the First and the Second World War - I think it was pretty costly to seek to prove your strength and importance to world - does Germany's strenght and importance allow her to make everything in Europe to suit her????

History / Wrocław's Train Station: Not A Happy Place. [39]


Polish bums are not a dangerous lot - they are obnoxious ye

History / Wrocław's Train Station: Not A Happy Place. [39]

I don't know anything about late exodus - what I know is there was a war hospital in the underground of the Wrocław main station (and quite big) during the time of siege of Wrocław in 1945

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

the line has been very recently modernized wiht instances of controls and signals malfunctioning in the result (read it on a railway forum) - there is a severe technical crisis in Polish railways that was developing since 1990's (not enough skilled technicians including) - it's very easy to assume human error but the realities may be very different and we won't hear about it very soon if it was not human error (because as the memory is still fresh the outcry in the society will be much greater)


there was a different type of accident in Baby in Piotrków Trybunalski area (derailement) - the engine driver was arrested for good couple of months (for the sake of what actually - many commentators said that only for the sake he couldn't speak to the press or he would damage Tusk's rule publicity) - it was like July I think - the commission still works - and the situation was rather simple - looks like they tried to cover or at least hush things up

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

isn't the railway infrastructure in the UK re-natinolized at the moment?

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


for me the animation on TVN24 makes little sense

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


some things can be ruled out instantly pal - just by the sight - a engine driver cannot intentionally derail a train - there was no head on collision - that one of the trains derailed before the collision is obvious from what they are showing - I couldn't figure out in what configuration it derailed

OK. I just found out more from the news - on a junction one train pierced through the other - and that's why the other trains' engine is intact