Language / How many words does it take to be fluent in (the Polish) language? [21]


I once was looking at a tibetan grammar that had a transliteration of the script and the modern standard pronunciation... they were not close for a number of reasons* one quick example, "Good morning" is pronounced roughly [ta shi de le] but spelled: bkhra shis bde legs

*a bunch of extra consonants have been added for various reasons over the years (at the same time that pronunciation of that is actually pronounced has changed).

Language / How many words does it take to be fluent in (the Polish) language? [21]


AFAICT
Danish is bad but nearly as bad as English, around French levels I'd say
Swedish is more 'phonetic'
Norwegian (bokmaal) is the most phonetic

Irish is very non-phonetic

Maybe the least phonetic though isn't English but Tibetan (insane0.

Work / Working in Warsaw as a Oracle DBA / IT manager - what's the best salary that I can get? [48]


Of course this is not any real type of employment. It's an immigration chain to western Europe. Real employment offers would TELL the employees about all this stuff. Employment equivalents of diploma mills (we'll give you a job on paper and you can cross the non-existent border)....

Love / DO RELIGIOUS POLISH GIRLS STILL EXIST IN THIS GENERATION [66]


Then start learning Polish, you won't learn anything of importance asking in English.

Love / DO RELIGIOUS POLISH GIRLS STILL EXIST IN THIS GENERATION [66]


Sex before marriage has probably always been the norm in Poland and Polish people mostly aren't that religious.

Even observant catholics are more into keeping up the right appearance and/or tradition than sincere belief. And they mostly don't really read the bible (never a catholic thing especially anyway).

Study / British Council CELTA in Krakow, how would you rate it? [60]


How long have you been in Poland? You sound like you're suffering from culture shock.

Trust me, you can have your own point of view and opinion in Poland. Once you know a little better how things work you are perfectly free to be very up front and in your face about your opinions (throwing an occasional diva fit will actually improve your image).

News / Reporter says she would trade 10 Polish lives if it helped thousands of immigrants [61]


Why do you automatically think that's a good thing (if true)? Most muslim communities in Europe seem to make modest economic contributions compared to the welfare and prison burden they impose....

Language / Writing time of day and currency amounts - in Poland and in the UK [5]


That's the form used in the US (which doesn't normally use the 24 hour clock). I have no idea about the UK. I'm used to the Polish version now, but it took some time.

For me, $15 looks.... like it's missing something. I think $15.00 looks much better (no reason Poles should).

Also Poles tend to reverse the use of commas and periods in large numbers (or use a space instead of a comma) so that 15,345.37 becomes 15 345,37

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]


The roots are roughly:

The overthrow of the Shah by religious extremists in Iran. Well, a majority thought they were just using religion to get rid of a hated dictator, joke was on them as now they're saddled with a religious dictatorship (ironic since Iranians are not especially religious - mosque attendance is almost non-existent).

The seizure of the grand mosque in Mecca in 1979 - this one has really gone down the rabbit hole. But part of the fallout of this typical internecine arab conflict were concessions to radical hardliners at home and a systematic program of exporting wahhabism abroad. This is basically ground zero of the modern jihad movement.

US helping the afhan mujahadin in Afghanistan. The US thought it was helping bog the USSR down in a quagmire using religious crazies. The religious crazies were far too stupid to realize they were pawns in a proxy war - they message they took was that if they were pious enough allah would help them defeat any foe (including the kuffar who irritated them just as muc as the Sovietes did).

In the 20th century up until the 1980s the the muslim world had hitched its cart to westernization, but government misdeeds and corruption and intra-arab and intra-muslim coflicts sunk that creating an ideological vaccuum that the religious crazies were able to take over.

The results of decades of western interference and native fecklessness are the modern jihadi movement. It took decades to create it will take decades to dismantle (and pretending that there is no problem - or that the problem is western "islamophobia", the preferred strategies of politicians, or that modern supremacist political islam is just another religion (the preferred strategy of those that know nothing of history) mean that the effort has not even begun yet.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]


Clearly the UK is helpless and nothing can be done. The UK must simply allow large numbers of muslims to immigrate, let some of them radicalize and kill some civilians (every dog gets one bite) and let nature (or in this case radical islamic fundamentalism) take its course.

If that's what the British public want, then fine. Not what I'd choose, but I'm not British. Just don't criticize countries that don't want to go down that path.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]


Well radically curtailing immigration from countries liable to produce terrorists in a generation or two would be a start.


It might be if the Tatars ran around committing terrorist acts, they don't, so it's a terrible analogy.


Then welcome to the new normal! Just hope you're not struck by muslim lightning.

There are lots of things worth doing that are completely legal (or should be) but the British public is okay with things as they are now, so good luck!

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]


No. It's just the new normal in western Europe where hardly a month goes by without some islamic crazy killing a half dozen to a few dozen people (and gangs of mostly muslims systematically sexually abuse young non-muslim women to the apathy of goodthinkers). If you're okay with that continuing for the foreseeable future, then.... carry on.

But don't expect other countries to want to sign on for the program that brought it about.

News / Reporter says she would trade 10 Polish lives if it helped thousands of immigrants [61]


That's due to previous immigration policy. Clearly the time to stop supremacist political Islam is before it can become part of a country. Calling the muslim community to account for their negligence in turning too many mosques into sewers of extremism would help too. The optimal way of stopping the wave of ongoing terror attacks in the UK is for muslims to root out extremists on their own, but most of the evidence tends to indicate they're not really into that idea....

News / Reporter says she would trade 10 Polish lives if it helped thousands of immigrants [61]


Political islam is the root cause which is only a factor in Britain due to immigration.


I'm not against immigration, I'm against the idea of combining religion and politics (especially when terror attacks are the result).

I'm in favor of careful immigration since people do not change their basic values when they cross national borders, it's better to have immigrants whose beginning values will help them integrate and not actively prevent it.

News / Reporter says she would trade 10 Polish lives if it helped thousands of immigrants [61]


No worse than ignoring multiple terrorist atrocities or downplaying them or denying the root causes thereof....

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]


Ah yes, the muslim mayor gathers the people and urges them to ignore the muslims with long knives snakeing through the crowd....

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


I grew up in the South (sort of) and knew them. My father was from the South and mother from the midwest (but very non-domestic and a perfunctory cook at best, not at all the type to cook things handed down generation after generation). We didn't have them often, I'd say five or six times a year (and only for breakfast when we did).

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


Hmm I thought most people in America knew potato pancakes.... I remember having them as a child. I always assumed they were brought to America by Germans.

Anyhoo, I found a combination that works strangely well is potato pancake toped with feta cheese and chopped pickled beets, the savory, sour and tart tastes blend together very nicely.

Life / Do illegitimate children exist in Poland? Pregnancy before marriage. [3]

Pregnancy before marriage is extremely common in Poland. But usually the couple manages to get married before the baby is born.


This is why young ladies used to have chaperones. Left to their own judgement (which is poor due to limited experience and surging hormones) young women tend to pick.... total losers (the bigger the loser the harder they're likely to fall). This is why young women usually had chaperones around them who could sniff out the losers and scare them off.

Back to your question. It happens in Poland and in larger cities won't be much remarked on. In the countryside it will be more remarked on (though there won't be public shaming or shunning or anything like that).

News / Poland elected temporary member of the UN Security Council [9]


Were Polish politicians actually working against the election? First I heard. The last time I remember the Polish government actively trying to sabotage Polish diplomacy was in Tusk's reelection as EC president....

Australia / Drug smuggling by Poles into Australia [4]

Why is Australia so full of drug addicts? The quickest way to stop traffickers is for their market to dry up.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]


C'mon, random German bashing is one of the few ways that Europeans from different countries can bond! Why do you want to take that away?

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


I assumed at the time that that was a pretty lie so that families could have some closure. How was she to know that the ghoulish Kaczynski and the mentally deranged Macierewicz were going to wave the dead bodies like obscene rotting flags in order to gain political points by manipulating the gullible with their unhinged urge to desecrate graves?


better that than a faithful servant of the communists....

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


If he had been in that type of plane crash that's probably inevitable...

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


Some years ago I read an article by an English guy who'd visited America, he was puzzled by English muffins and declared them "not at all English" (or words to that effect).

Once in a communal kitchen of a teacher's dorm I was making a cross between American pancakes and hoe cakes (see below) and an Irish guy said they looked like 'muffins'.....

On the pancake batter and fish, of course I've had battered fish (yes, very yummy if done right) but the word pancake confused me because "pancake batter" to me sounds like it's for making pancakes (however defined) and not for frying fish... (I'd probably just call the batter for fish either 'batter' or 'fish batter').

the glory that is hoe cakes:

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


bvll hockey, that's the same excuse used by bad, lawless governments everywhere


A cursory glance at any city shows how false that assertion is.


One of the first things that PiS did was try to destroy the constituion, they don't get to quote it now.

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


I agree with the current government's refusal to settle the Merkeljugend. I disagree with them about almost everything else at the root because they're against the rule of law and in favor of rule by party chairman. Nothing good can come from that.

Had they kept JK and AM on ice and tried to form a normal christian democrat government then I might be more on board with them, but until they stop desecrating the rule of law and appointing mentally ill people to high positions.... no dice.

UK, Ireland / Polish smugglers caught and jailed [10]


You mean confiscatory and unjust British robbery taxes!

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]


Airplane crashes are usually accompanied by fire.... jet fuel is very flammable...

UK, Ireland / Armed and Dangerous Polish man on the run in the UK [12]


Clearly a cautionary tale against open borders! Poland needs to watch carefully who's let in!


True! Let's hope the local authorities are competent enough to catch him, unlike the sub-part British guards who let this dastard escape!