Language / Is math in Polish different than in English? [59]

The Arabic numerals are (sort of) the same, but Polish (and various other European) 1 can be mistaken for an English 7 which would normally have a line through it. (I've always liked putting lines through my sevens).


Polish bilion is the same as British English billion (Yankeeish trillion), not the American billion (the British half a billion / thousand million, Polish ____?) I find it exceptionally difficult to know these days, if British speakers are using our own or the American (much smaller) billion.

Correct me if I'm wrong please!

Language / Poland in different languages? [74]

As much as Magyarország has to do with Węgry or Hungary.

Travel / Sleeper train Poland to Holland, the Jan Kiepura [13]


An interesting and well written story. You describe it as being quite similar to the mattress I sleep on every night. Surely a hard mattress is better for the back. I think I'd still prefer to travel by train than coach. I have a tendency to stay awake all night anyway (nothing to do with my dodgy mattress of course).

Language / Poland in different languages? [74]

Anyone mentioned Gwlad Pwyl? (Cymraeg)


Welsh has mutations - changing the first letter of a word according to grammatical case.

News / Poland's pollution of the Baltic Sea [46]


Do you still have it or has it been recycled?

Genealogy / Any Polish Tatars here? [95]


They typically look atypical. Tatars were quite a mixed bunch. Perhaps generally darker skin than your average Pole. Some look a bit more Mongolian, some don't.

Work / Brazilian moving to Poland - job ideas, Polish language, other tips? [30]

As far as I can tell, it's about as much difference as there is between standard British English and American English. That's not as much difference as there is between standard French and Quebecois, but not quite as similar as the Polish spoken in Gdańsk to the Polish spoken in Gdynia.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

There are other alternatives.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]


Do you have to smash the bottle to scrape the last bit out? I always think it should come in a tin, a bit like wood varnish or something.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]


The Omnibus edition is part of Polish culture isn't it?

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Never looked at Hungarian or Welsh then?

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

I just invented a Polish joke. I might not be the firt to have come up with this one, and I might go back and edit this post and claim that it was nothing to do with me just in case it doesn't go down well.

Why did the Polish chicken cross the road?
To meet his droga friend.

How did the Polish chicken cross the road?

He pole-vaulted.

Feedback / The image of Poland according to PolishForums [90]


No.

You could think about how many people in the world can't have the internet or just can't be bothered with it. Some people even have the internet censored by their lovely cotton-wool governments. Then, you could think about all those people who do use the internet, but use it for facebook, buying music and downloading pûrnography rather than visiting Polish Forums.

After that, we are left with the tiny fraction of the world's population who have visited Polish Forums at least once in their lives. Of these people, I would guess that most already have their preconceived ideas of what Poland is like, either because their Polish and come from Poland, because they once opened an Atlas, they wondered where it was their strangely named great grandmother came from and looked it up, because they live in another nearby country that has some knowledge, understanding or sterotypical view of Poland, blah blah blah...

That's why I said no. Would the short answer have done the trick?

Food / OKOCIM PORTER BETTER THAN GUINNESS STOUT? [43]

Stout, such as Guinness, was a British innovation in brewing although it has become a much stronger tradition in Ireland (Guinness, Murphy's, etc.) rather than Britain (Mackeson's...) I don't know much about Polish Porter, although I did try one that was a bit like trying to drink tar. It wasn't Okocim.

Work / Are you teaching English in Poland? [120]

Topic not really attached on merging: Are you teaching Scots in Poland?

What kind of accents do your students emerge with?

UK, Ireland / What do Polish people think about Wales and Welsh people? [191]

Notice how the title has now changed.

The hate bit has lost its relevence (taking the micky out of another thread).
There is a corner of my family tree, and a corner of my heart that contains some serious Taffiness.
I hate that Welsh girl who insisted on drinking games a few years back in a pub in Portsmouth.

UK, Ireland / What do Polish people think about Wales and Welsh people? [191]


You can dislike England and the English as much as you like. It won't stop me from liking Wales and Welsh people. How many English people really care about Wales' level of dependence or independence? Although there are so many layers of inconsistency in the constituation of the UK, I believe that a country encompassing all of Britain makes sense. If countries within Britain wish to be independent, I say let them vote on it.

Plenty of us English are at least a little bit Taff!

UK, Ireland / What do Polish people think about Wales and Welsh people? [191]


Sometimes I forget that people do not pick up ironic nuances on here. My family lived in Wrexham before I was born. I once got drunk with a man from Wrexham who had no kind words to say about it. Maybe believing the words of a drunk man is not the best way to form an opinion.

There are parts of Wales I love and will always think of fondly. There are some very nice Welsh people too. This thread was started in reaction to another similarly titled thread about the English or the Polish - I can't entirely remember.

Important annoucement: This post is irony-free. (Probably)

UK, Ireland / What do Polish people think about Wales and Welsh people? [191]

Kilts and stuff aren't exactly native to parts of Lowland Scotland either. Before the 19th century religious revival, they made whisky in Wales, I believe.

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Home dentistry, anyone?

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]


I wouldn't prefer to see the bnp troll. But sometimes we need to know, although certainly not as much as noimmigration reminds us, that such views, however sick they may sometimes be, do exist.


Afraid to say it's both. I would prefer to have seen this thread deleted a long time ago. However, his failed arguments and illogical conclusions and his sick so-called sense of humour do not do any credit to his anti-immigration stance.

Love / My boyfriend is on a Polish dating site [158]

People don't need to explain every detail of their entire lives in a relationship, but the more secrecy, the worse things will be.

Language / I'm gonna learn Polish in a month! [86]

Learn to speak Polish. But how much?

Nic.

That'l do for now.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

One that gets topped up again and again for me without having to get up out of my seat.

One of the very few pubs in town has bottles of Tyskie. Other than the rather fine dark Suffolk Strong, Tyskie seemed to be the best of their selection. It would have been better if they had had Okocim (a beer of which I need more experience). The barman even knew what I was asking for when I pronounced it properly.

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]


So do gays reproduce, or do they turn straight people gay? Or, as I believe, does acceptance of homosexuality allow people to be honest about their sexuality and that there are neither no more no less gay people, in terms of percentage of population, as there have ever been?

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]


Neither are you.

Language / Listening to music and learning Polish [45]

Whilst my flatmate and I were comparing English and Polish wolf-whistles, I decided to play this song to demonstrate something. Not sure what - probably just how old-fashioned my musical taste can be sometimes.

Never heard anything else even half decent by the Steve Miller Band though. Okay, so "Fly Like An Eagle" is alright, but what's that one they still play on the radio sometimes that is one of the most chronically dull songs of all time?

Language / The Plural of Zloty? [46]

So what about złote and złotych like it says on the coins?

What's that about pierogi?

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Welcome to another page of the battle between good and evil.


I'm currently spinning a load of plates on sticks whilst balancing myself precariously on the edge of a large vat of jelly. I can't do with racist, fascist, small-minded, xenophobic, low-life scum side of things quite as well though.

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Why do the old ones stay here making this thread look really big and popular. If he must remain on PF, then surely each time his new threads are dumped here, the older posts could all be wiped away.

Then again, some of us have made some good responses on here.