Language / What are escorts called in Poland? [25]


In general American English it's just more about a woman who does not exercise any type of sound judgement in matters sexual. A woman might be clean and have a nice house and a job, but if her sexual judgement is really bad (or non-existen) she's a slut.

Keeps a steady boyfriend with a job but repeatedly cheats on him with tatted up losers? slut

Lawyer who specializes in one night stands? slut

Teacher who sleeps with her teen students? oh yeah, she's a slut

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


How does he balance his musical career with working as a lawyer?

News / Tragedy of Polish couple; Polish woman repeatedly raped in Italy, her partner almost killed [101]

A "cultural mediator" from Pakistan, resident in Italy, apparently dismisses the seriousness of the gang rape in Rimini. He says it's only bad at the beginning but then the woman relaxes and enjoys it.

ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2017/08/28/rape-worse-at-start-man-takes-flak_c0c8f880-836d-4c84-bff0-f6203c289446.html

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


The only reference I saw (using search: 1920) was about restoring lost citizenship (to the people who lost it) and not about determining or acknowledging the citizenship of their descendents.


Then they need to look at the 2012 law.

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


Thanks for the link. The most important bit of information at said link was

status: repealed
date of repeal: January 19, 1951

following the links through current laws I found the uniform text of the current law for obtaining Polish citizenship or for having Polish citizenship recognized (mentioned on the first page). If your Polish citizenship was not recognized by 2012 then this is the only relevant law in your case. some random law from 1920 have no legal bearing and anyone who tells you that they do is a fraud and a scamster.

I'm not going to read it because it's 24 pages long.

isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU20120000161

I don't see an English version but it can possibly be found at: Dz.U. 2012 poz. 161

I assume you're familiar with this page.

Language / Where did you start or the best techniques for learning Polish. [85]


For better or worse, English is pluricentric with no single standard acceptable to everyone.


I often wish that Webster had been more successful in his spelling reforms and that the language had been encouraged to go its own way more definitively. When I hear British I understand most of it but it doesn't sound like my language, there's a lot that's just stubbornly.... foreign about it.

Interestingly my tolerance for British usage decreased as my knowledge of Polish grew (some other Americans have reported similar experiences), maybe you're experiencing something similar?

Language / What are escorts called in Poland? [25]


I think that's semantic drift caused by translations from English. I remember wanting a word for slut in Polish many years ago and most people said there wasn't one and offered 'dziwka' (with the primary meaning of prostitute) instead. Suka wasn't used at all in the English meaning back then.

On the other hand, I can't think of a good American equivalent to cichodajka... (woman who has sex on the sly while maintaining a respectable public image).

Language / What are escorts called in Poland? [25]


I've hardly ever heard kurwa actually used to refer to real prostitutes, and on the rare occasions I've heard it addressed to actual women they were decidedly not prostitutes. Like you said, it's a general swear word (THE general swear word) but not much used in its literal meaning.

Dziwka is by far the more common word I think (though prostytutka is far more used in Polish than it is in English). I've also heard tirówka for roadside prostitute and maybe some other specific words but I can't remember them...


or go on vacation to Egypt.....?

Real Estate / Can a foreigner buy a property in Poland which is listed for sale under TBS clause? [7]


They're not for sale, they're for lifelong occupancy (last I knew) without ownership. they were first intended as a way of trying to bring some relief to mid-income earners who were squeezed out of the very tight housing market. There also used to be restrictions on sub-letting .....And.... they tend to be loud (not always but a large minority of people I've known who live in them complain about noise levels from partying neighbors and the like.

Mostly likely not worth it.

Genealogy / Kameczura surname - any Polish people related? [30]


That's because of the cz

Maybe play around with variants (and abbreviations) using hungarian cs or czech-slovak č and maybe something will come up.

I came across one reference of kameč meaning ox but that was in the caucasus which doesn't help here....

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


Which the grandfather in question..... wasn't. So it's on to the parents.


Polish laws tend to be badly and ambiguously written which means that the only binding interpretation is that taken by the official who's looking at your case.


Only if complaints were made about them to the government. Otherwise it doesn't necessarily monitor what people say the law means in English when only the Polish version is binding (and liable to be ambiguous)


Serve up the relevant chunk of law in Polish and I'll take a whack at it. How well do you know Polish? Well enough to read the laws in the original?

UK, Ireland / 31 year old Polish man causes accident under influence of alcohol and kills 8 [198]


Many years ago there some guys dripping it through bread to drink it and they didn't like the way I looked at them and threw the bottle at me. fortunately their aim was terrible and missed by many yards...

UK, Ireland / 31 year old Polish man causes accident under influence of alcohol and kills 8 [198]


In the PRL they also operated (usually out of apartments people were living in) primarily to sell acohol when the stores were closed. These weren't nice but they were far from the total squalor and degradation of such places now....

Genealogy / Kameczura surname - any Polish people related? [30]

Men who were so-named couldn't convince enough women to have babies with them?

To my non-native ears, it doesn't sound very Polish though I don't know what it could be I tried some romanianish and hungarianish spellings in google and hit nothing.

Wild guess: scrambling of kocsma ura (hungarian versions of karczma and pan)

UK, Ireland / 31 year old Polish man causes accident under influence of alcohol and kills 8 [198]


Yes, doesn't anyone remember meliny from the PRL?

potocznie nazwa miejsca w której przebywają, spotykają się osoby z tzw. marginesu społecznego w celu spożywania wyrobów alkoholowych bądź używania narkotyków; miejsca te z reguły to opuszczone budynki, mieszkania bądź domy rodzin, osób powiązanych z patologią.

colloquially the name of a place where people on the margins of society meet and spend time in order to consume alcohol or use drugs, usually these places are abandoned buildings, or the apartments or family homes of people engaged in pathological behavior


there's no evidence AFAIK that the pictures have any effect (beyond making the practice of smoking seem more extreme and edgy to dumb teenagers)

want to stop teen smoking? get the most boring and respectable people possibly to encourage it.

UK, Ireland / 31 year old Polish man causes accident under influence of alcohol and kills 8 [198]


You've certainly not had one word of compassion for the victims of an assault by illegal aliens in Italy except to say the mediterranean is safe (trying to cast doubt on their story)? Also no condemnation of the illegal aliens themselves (afraid people will start wondering why so many criminals from north africa are infesting Europe)?

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


I don't think that's the issues as much as the fact that the Polish parent (or parents) never asserted citizenship which means the OP doesn't have that many options as citizenship through a grandfather doesn't work.

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


And the other shoe drops. It's the nigerian scam (with the added benefit that the victims come to him....) what a vile piece of garbage he must be.

It occurs to me that it would be massively useful if this forum had a 'fraudster" registry (not so named of course) to warn people of scamsters....

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


I don't have an economic interest in keeping you paying?

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


Only the original Polish is binding. I haven't read the two to compare, but legal translations in Poland are generally terrible, so a lawyer may be strinting the OP along..... trying to convince the paying client there's a case when there isn't.

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]

But internationally it was recognized (by UN etc) and the parents seemed to have de facto given up citizenship in order to live in a free country rather than deal with the ordeal of everyday life in a communist country. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me (one I would have taken in those circumstances in a heartbeat) but that does leave the OP without a realistic path to citizenship except for moving to Poland.

Polonia / Where do you live, in Poland or abroad? [28]

I'm an American citizen and longterm resident of Poland with no plans to leave (not saying it wouldn't/couldn't happen, just that I'm not making plans to leave).

I'm definitely not an expat (had some brief contact with some many years ago and promptly became allergic...) and don't really regard myself as an immigrant (which implies planned behavior) or migrant (implies rootlessness). I'm not Polish but I consider myself a participating member of Polish society.

I live between Warsaw and Berlin in the first city to openly rebel against communism!

Law / My Poland born father served in a foreign army - Polish citizenship questions [76]


Why is she mucking on about her grandfather, citizenship doesn't skip generations, she should be able to prove that her parents are/were Polish citizens.

History / For what the Germans owe Poland one trillion U.S. dollars? [299]


The issue has already disappeared from the media after serving its purpose of distracting people.

**** is no more likely to formally initiate any procedure for reparations than it is to formally invade Vilnius and Lviv...

It's political theater meant to rile up its supporters so they'll bark on cue. And it works.

News / Tragedy of Polish couple; Polish woman repeatedly raped in Italy, her partner almost killed [101]


Drugs. I'm originally from Florida and the sky high murder rates are mostly from the drug trade and low income minorities (in both case it's mostly in-group violence).


Yep. Especially since so many seem so blase and lacking in basic human sympathy (perhaps wary that any doubt expressed toward any behavior by illegal aliens could lead to policies to reduce their numbers).

Language / Where did you start or the best techniques for learning Polish. [85]


In Poland it's pretty easy to explain.

On the one hand you have Polish teachers with paper qualifications who understand how Polish organizations function and who've been in the position of the students and so understand what problems they're having and why

vs

Native speakers with no formal qualifications who are liable to not know any Polish (and need constant extra explanations) and don't know how the Polish workplaces (and need constant handholding for their constant traumas) and who have no understanding of what their students really need? And if the native speaker isn't from the British Isles there will be visa issues as well.

Which do you choose? Remember your school is a business that has bills to pay and teachers that alienate/confuse students mean fewer bvtts in seats and peril for your mortgage....

News / Tragedy of Polish couple; Polish woman repeatedly raped in Italy, her partner almost killed [101]


I'm sure the woman gangraped by (most likely) illegal aliens and her brutalized husband will be happy to know that. The same illegal aliens apparently also assaulted a transgender prostitute from Peru, so maybe you'll care about that since you can't spare any sympathy for the Poles.

UK, Ireland / 31 year old Polish man causes accident under influence of alcohol and kills 8 [198]

Be fair, jon said he felt very safe in southern Europe.

Food / Indian/Bangladeshi grocery store in Gdansk [9]


much less indian... I've never heard of Indian grocery stores in Poland, there are some restaurants and some of them might sell supplies (some chinese restaurants used to do that).

there's also the chance that somebody just sells things from their apartment (I knew of a such a location in Poznań but it was East Asian, not South Asian)

UK, Ireland / 31 year old Polish man causes accident under influence of alcohol and kills 8 [198]


how is he driving a truck and homeless.... don't the english pay truck drivers?