UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]

One of which is true, the other not.

Interesting it mentions the mazurka. 'Polka dot' patterns probably comes from Polish. Plus the old-fashiones sausage, 'poloney', based on Polish sausage.

UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]

There isn't much, but there's one good story for your presentation. The English verb 'to spruce up', and the type of tree, spruce (świerk). Originates from the Polish phrase 'z prus'. It used to be imported from the Baltic by Polish traders who brought it from Prussia, z Prus.

Plus the American word 'hooey' meaning rubbish, nonsense. It probably comes from chuj. I've also heard Americans refer to money as 'cabbage' perhaps a calque from the slang 'kapusta'.

And (potentially racist, so be careful), I know Poles in the UK (young men largely) who refer to British Asians as a 'czapaki', from 'chapatti' and 'paki'. A new Polish word but coined by Poles in the UK.

There are also a few words in English that have come from Yiddish and came into Yiddish from Polish. Schlep, for example.

Life / Hey, I speak English and can say F**K! Poles use the F-word to impress native speakers. [23]

The same ones who grumble if you say kurwa.

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]


A bit like asking a fox to comment on chickens. Far from unbiased. Same as you.


There's plenty of energy, and no need whatsoever to mess around with 'unconventional', dangerous, and harmful methods like shale fracking. Especially when the companies wanting to do it don't even come from the same continent but instead from a country with a very poor record of corporate ethics.


Somehow that doesn't ring true, especially given the nonsense you've already posted and the bogus posts from som PR department that shows the lengths of subterfuge that some interested parties will go to to conceal the real problems of a fossil fuel source we don't need to exploit.

Travel / Is Poland worth visiting? [35]


We used to get something like that in the UK as well. Horrible. Fortunately the real stuff was available too.

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]


And not without a certain amount of financial self-interest, despite the huge environmental damage that fracking causes.

Life / How to survive with one dollar in Poland [16]

If it's a one dollar coin, you could let a Krakowian and a Poznzniak get in a tug-of-war with it and make a kilometre of wire.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


And knew how to use it.

News / Polish Jesuits created a Facebook site for non-believers. Atheists not a total waste? [70]


That makes all the difference.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Subtle is something you don't really get do you. However the marked difference in the achievements of Italy and Poland during the Renaissance is far from subtle.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


That seems to happen rather a lot here.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]

Another adjective beginning with the same letter springs more easily to mind.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Such an amazing family. Though the Medici and arguably the Strozzi achieved more.


No to nie Kanada...

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


So how does:


??

Amazing the squirming some people will reduce themselves to when they're trying to argue a point that doesn't exist.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Not that WWII exactly passed Italy by, but I'm sure you know (since this is a thread on the Renaissance) that both places were inhabited between the Sixteenth and the mid-Twentieth Centuries too. But that doesn't fit your 'argument', does it?

Perhaps you just prefer polskie gówno w polu niżli fiołki w Neapolu...

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Just a trillion dollar economy, outstanding in the fields of design, engineering, finance etc. Plus one of the world's biggest tourist destinations. Y'know, all those people going to visit the physical legacy of the Renaissance.

Though you are fully entitled to live in agricultural peace and quiet.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]

Just a shame they couldn't sustain it really, isn't it?

History / Aleksander Kwaśniewski was Slavic traitor, shame of Polish politics? What Poles think? [15]

What for? Serbia's massive oil reserves or its strategic seaports?

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

And a particularly ham-fisted attempt too. A few of the phrases 'they' used show up time and time again on the internet. If I were ConocoPhillips or Marathon or whichever other company has hired them, I'd want my money back very quickly.

The disturbing thing is that some corporate elements in this seem prepared to resort to subterfuge regarding shale fracking in order to pull the wool over the public's eyes.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


You've partially summed up the Renaissance - I'm glad you're slowly beginning to understand. Though you missed out science, architecture, medicine, navigation, literature and a quest for knowledge that has informed the world we live in today. Much more interesting than farming.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


I suspect you know the Serene Republic of Venice, the Papal States et al were rather more than that: they certainly produced a trulu unparalleled flowering of culture.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Perhaps you should, since you seem to believe that the renaissance in Poland was somehow more dynamic than the Italian Renaissance!

News / Polish Jesuits created a Facebook site for non-believers. Atheists not a total waste? [70]

Yes. A pharmacological alternative to the opiate of the masses. Though TV and computer games achieve a lot of that.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Which was far stronger in Italy diring that time. But hey, if you want to believe that, say, Vilnius was was a more dynamic place than Venice during the renaissance, nobody will stop you.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]

Peaceful doesn't come into it. The artistic, intellectual and cultural flowering there truly was unparalleled.

Travel / Train from Warsaw to Siedlce [27]


It does, though this year there are sometimes changes for the reasons you mentioned. Most still call at Srodmiescie.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Are you seriously saying that the renaissance in Poland was "unparalleled in Europe"?

News / Polish Jesuits created a Facebook site for non-believers. Atheists not a total waste? [70]


Far more advanced than tolerating misery in the hope that it'll all get better in an afterlife.


And the 'distinctive concepts' of all the other belief systems around?

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

Cladd's 5 posts, all of them on the matter of shale gas, and all reading like something from a press release.

* "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe!
* Will Poland Run Out of Russian Gas?
* German company may join South Stream. Why not Polish company?
* POLISH GAS RESERVES
* WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA?

Add that to the interestingly worded prose from 'Adam1976' and it looks like we're being trolled by some company's PR department.

News / Polish Jesuits created a Facebook site for non-believers. Atheists not a total waste? [70]


One major religion believes that their god is "everything and nothing".