Travel / Pics of Warsaw by the Guardian's David Levene [107]

As an every-day commuter to the capital, I've found those pictures really good. We all have enough of tourist Warsaw (but Crow's photos are nice nonetheless) and these show the real life in some districts of the capital. I was particularly moved by the photo taken in a bar mleczny; though I haven't been in any of them for ages, I distinctly remember the atmosphere in them and it is still there on this photo! One or two interesting pictures of the recently modernized Krakowskie Przedmieście, part of the Royal Route, would have perhaps brought some balance to the city's image, but on avarage Praga and Ursynów are portrayed as what they really are. Warsaw is not only the city of the posh and the prosperous, but also of the poor and the starving!

Po polsku / Polskie Gazety polityczne oparcie [28]

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Sformułowałeś swój tytuł: 'Polskie gazety polityczne oparcie'. Zastanawiam się, jak ten tytuł wyglądałby u Ciebie po angielsku?

Po polsku / Polskie Gazety polityczne oparcie [28]

[Co każdy chłopiec wiedzieć powinien?]
Ale co wie? Kto miałby zastąpić nieboszczkę PZPR w jej niegdysiejszej, ambitnej i dziejowej roli przewodniej siły? Ja na przykład nie wiem kto ... No, chyba nie Kobylański z tej tam Argentyny czy innego Paragwaju?

Po polsku / Polskie Gazety polityczne oparcie [28]


Pozostaje do ustalenia, jaka jest ta 'idea' [hm.. idea przewodnia?] narodu polskiego, kto jest uprawniony tę ideę formułować oraz kto określi czy dane poglądy są zgodne z tą ideą czy też są z nią niezgodne. Wiadomo powszechnie, że niegdyś rolę naczelnej interpretatorki 'idei narodu polskiego' była PZPR, naród miał być socjalistyczny, a sojusz narodu polskiego ze Związkiem Radzieckim był wpisany do konstytucji. Ale obecnie, gdy mamy tę rozpasaną demokrację, to nie wiem kto miałby zastąpić nieboszczkę PZPR w tej jej niegdysiejszej, ambitnej i dziejowej roli.


Można tak powiedzieć. Rzeczpospolita może sama nie mieć swojej opinii na każdy temat, ale jest to dziennik, który przytoczy zdania polityków różnych opcji w danej sprawie oraz zapyta uznanych ekspertów w danej dziedzinie o ich opinie.

Po polsku / Polskie Gazety polityczne oparcie [28]

Rzeczpospolita jest uważana za gazetę bliską PiS, jakkolwiek jest to dziennik mający wyważone poglądy i prezentujący najróżniejsze opinie, w związku z tym jest też czytany przez osoby, które nigdy nie były stronnikami PiS i nigdy nie głosowały na tę partię, jak np. moja skromna osoba [czytam codziennie Rzeczpospolitą w wersji papierowej].

Gazeta Wyborcza jest największą polską 'quality paper', chociaż tutaj na PF jest obrzucana różnymi inwektywami przez różnych domorosłych komentatorów, którym się wydaje, że już wszystkie rozumy pozjadali i w związku z tym każdego mogą obrzucić błotem, kiedy tylko im się żywnie podoba. Ja czytam GW sporadyczne, właściwie to tylko w poniedziałki, ze względu na ich dobrą kolumnę biznesową tego dnia.

Ostatnio dołączyły do grona 'quality papers' Dziennik Gazeta Prawna', powstały z połączenia dwóch swoich poprzedniczek, tj. Dziennika i Gazety Prawnej, oraz całkiem nowa na rynku gazeta, tj. Polska The Times, dziennik związany z brytyjskim Timesem, poświęcający dużo uwagi bieżącym krajowym wydarzeniom politycznym, redagowany też - odnoszę takie wrażenie - w brytyjskim stylu.

Największe zaś tabloidy ogólnopolskie w rodzaju the Sun czy Daily Mail to Fakt i Super Ekspress.

News / Poles -- Europe's very best? [21]

The Polish are equally "British" as the British! - reveals the Guardian poll!

Question: Is Great Britain a country I admire? was answered 'Yes' by 47% of the British respondents as well as by 39% of the Polish respondents [and only by 33% of the German ones, 22% of the French, 29% of the Spanish].

Question: Is Great Britain a country I do not admire? was answered 'Yes' by 23% of the British, of the German, of the Polish, while other nations were more sceptical towards Britain: 25% of the Sanish and 35% of the French did not admire Britain.

News / Poles -- Europe's very best? [21]

No, we don't. I think you only raise this issue to provoke some well-known trolls of the Polish Forums to take part in another pointless discussion.

Feedback / A Personal Request to all PF members [119]


I think you've said the essence here. A forum may be like a newspaper: either a quality one or a tabloid. According to the policy of the editors, it attracts the very different groups of readers. This forum has clearly slided towards a tabloid-type one, so it is encouraging a certain type of posters while discouraging some others like you and me, for example. It still retains some characteristics of a quality forum, however, so some readers who don't like the tabloid forums still come here. But I doubt if we are able to persever for much too long ...

UK, Ireland / British going bankrupt in Poland? [22]


Rather than give us a clue as to what makes the young man think himself bunkrupt, you give us lots of information about yourself (which are very interesting nonetheless!).


With this I must agree. Although it is unclear to whom you address this remark, many members of this forum are in need of such counselling, that's for sure!

News / Anti semtism at Polish Congress [57]


Yes, they said that president Lech Kaczyński died in the Smoleńsk crash as a result of "justice done to someone who signed the Lisbon treaty". On the anti-semitic front, one of the participants has said that the world government has decided that there should be only 15 millions of Poles and that number is sufficient to "serve the Jewish masters" or something in that line.

All TV channels in Poland were reporting extensively on those most shameful incidents yesterday, so Delphiandomine's opinion:


is absurd.

News / Anti semtism at Polish Congress [57]


I think he has two spelling mistakes in his five-word thread title, to be exact. What's more - he is an English language instructor.

UK, Ireland / British going bankrupt in Poland? [22]

How would you pay for his service, if you are bankrupt?

News / Santander buys the third largest bank in Poland (Bank Zachodni) [11]

Merged: Banco Santander buys out the Poznań-based bank BZ WBK

The buy-out had been initiated as a result of the September 2010 agreement between the Irish Allied Bank [AIB] and Banco Santander of Spain in which the latter offered to pay more than 11.5 billion zloty to the AIB for slightly more than 70 per cent of shares in the Poznań-based BZ WBK [Bank Zachodni - Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy] held by the AIB, if Santander calls for buying out of all the remainning shares.

The call has won an overwhelming response from the market resulting in 95.67 per cent stake now in possession of Santander. This means that pension funds as well as investment funds have decided to join those answering the call at the price of 226.89 zloty per share which ended Friday, 25th of March.

If Banco Santander wishes BZ WBK to remain in the listings of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the Spanish bank would be expected to sell part of the acquired shares onto the market to reach the level of 25 per cent of stock in free float, a condition usually imposed on major publicly listed banks by KNF, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.

Meanwhile, financial analysts are trying to resolve the following question: is Barclays too big for Britain or is it Britain which is too small for Barclays? Barclays' gross balance sheet is 100% of UK GDP, whereas that of JP Morgan, the US bank of a comparable size and a broadly comparable mix of retail, commercial and investment banking activities is only 24% of US GDP. JP Morgan has recently updated its target share price for one of the two biggest Polish banks, PKO BP, which it has left unchanged at 55 zl a share in one year from today. As plans for a secondary public offering have been announced for the bank's shares by the Ministry of Treasury and the state-owned bank BGŻ, the announcement prompted the analysts of Credit Suisse Securities to put the PKO BP bank on the list of 15 most prospective banks for the region of Central Europe, Middle East and Africa with a prognosis of its share value up to 52.5 zł in a year, a 20 per cent rise from the present quotation.

Law / Does Poland have the most prehistorical and strictest banking system in the world? [57]

Checks? What are checks? Is it something so bloody modern that the US have and we haven't heard of it yet in Poland?

Genealogy / Occupation title in 1854 - Mlodzien Dworski - what was this? [14]

The parents of your hero had been described in this act as living in the village of Jesiony in the same gubernia Warszawska. It is quite likely then that the village of Kule should be looked for in the neighbourhood.

'Młodzian' in this language of 1854 had been used to mean 'bridegroom' as opposed to the word 'panna' for Paulina Jaworska which was used to mean 'bride'. The habit of the writer of this act was not to put a comma between the names of the persons concerned and the nouns describing their roles in the marriage. "Młodzian' is no longer used in modern Polish, be it to describe a bridegroom [today: kawaler or pan młody] or a young man or lad [today: młodzieniec]. Most interesting are nouns: 'zniegda' for Julian Antoni Gładysz, the bridegroom, and 'niegda' for Paulina Jaworska, the bride. From the context you will say they must respectively mean: 'son' and 'daughter', but in true fact, I've never come across any one of such "labels" before.

Genealogy / Occupation title in 1854 - Mlodzien Dworski - what was this? [14]

I think you should scan the upper bit of the record as well to catch the whole sense. As I read it, it may refer to a name: Gładysz Młodzianem, followed by a comma and then the adjective: dworskim. It seems strange as a name, however, so it is difficult to say something for sure from this partial scan.

History / Silesia occupation [49]


Galicia is something different than Silesia. Galicia was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, whereas Silesia was divided into these two countries in 1741 when Prussia conquered on Austria a major part of the Silesian territory including the capital Breslau/Wrocław. Thus, until the year 1918 we had the Prussian Silesia as well as the Austrian Silesia, or the region of Opava, which region was administratively separate from the land of Moravia. On top of this we had the Duchy of Cieszyn which was a separate administrative unit within Austria; it was a Silesian duchy, however, not to be confounded with the neighbouring Galicia.

The name of Galicia appeared after the first partition of Poland in 1772 when the Austrian called the grabbed territory by the name "Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria". Both names are latinized versions of Ruthenian [we now say: Ukrainian] names: Halichina and Vlodimiria. In the beginning the Austrians used to exploit the acquired territory enormously which made the Polish and Ruthenian populations inhabiting the kingdom nickname it as "Kingdom of Golicja i Głodomeria" which would translate into English as "The Kingdom of the Naked and the Hungry. Later on, the region was given a broad autonomy within the Habsburg Empire and became one where neither Polishness were persecuted nor the Polish language was eradicated from public use.

History / An American studying medicine in the PRL 1978-1985: my story [142]



Coincidently eough, I used to study medicine in the approximately same period as you, but my tuition took place in Warsaw. I remember three American Polonia fellow students who started the course with us in the same year. One of them, a very friendly and sensitive guy, came from New York. After the first year he went for summer holidays back to New York, but he never again returned to Poland. We got to know he got murdered in America after getting off a taxi in New York or something like that! I remember having thought to myself on learning this news: "What a dangerous place America must be!", which was perfectly in line with the tunes of the then Polish communist propaganda on the US which was constantly portrayed in Poland as racist, full of crime and injustice. And yes, it was a great injustice, indeed, that such a decent man got murdered while on holiday in his native country! Nevertheless, the other two, a woman and a men had returned safely from the US and - as far as I remeber - finished their full six-year course in medicine in Warsaw.

Language / Pan vs. pan (letter capitalization), Cię, Ciebie [13]

It should be: 'Dzięki, Sztrzygo!' or 'Dzięki, Strzyguniu!'.

It seems [will anyone check it somewhere?] that singular nouns which end in a soft consonant will take the -u ending in the vocative case irrespectively of their gender.

I remember John Paul II telling the pilgrims in Licheń who were greeting him with "Witaj w Licheniu!":
- I just thought you were shouting at me: "Witaj, ty leniu!"

Language / Polish nationality insults in Polish? [67]

Wyjść po angielsku - to leave a party without saying good-bye to anyone.

Language / Polish nationality insults in Polish? [67]

In the Middle Ages, the following verse was known in several European languages:

Polski most, niemiecki post,
włoskie nabożeństwo
Wszystko to błazeństwo

News / Irena Kwiatkowska died on March 3, 2011 [14]


If so, I cannot understand her being on such good terms with Jerzy Gruza.

She made, together with another great Polish actor Kazimierz Rudzki, an unforgettable creation in an unforgettable TV comedy series of 1960s: "Wojna domowa".

Wojna domowa od wielu, już wielu lat
Wojna na gesty, wojna na słowa
To każdy na wyrywki z domu zna ...

Study / Swedish folks in Poland! (I want to apply for university and live in Poland) [21]


And what will a member of this forum who does study medicine in Warsaw, a certain SzwedwPolsce, say to this?

News / Irena Kwiatkowska died on March 3, 2011 [14]

She seemed so perfectly natural on the stage, she was a perfectionnist professional. As Jerzy Gruza, the director of the TV film "Czterdziestolatek" said a moment ago on TVN, she showed this English-style comedy performance: people were laughing when she said something in a most serious tone.

Life / An example of what is wrong with Poland (fatal traffic accident and a tram) [55]

Harry will tell you that the thread is about something else: it is a thread about an example of what is wrong with this country [Poland]. But you may well ask him after having read his story of a tram which hit and killed a woman who tried to get off it: what's wrong with you, Harry?

History / A question regarding Christian/Pagan military alliance in First Millenium Central Europe [17]


I've never heard this story. My first thought, however, was that this event could have happened in the times of margrave Gero [c.900 - 965] who fought frequent battles against the Polabian Slavs on the territory of the future DDR. In Wikipedia I've found the following passage:

In 939, an Obodrite attack left a German army routed and its margravial leader dead. Gero in revenge invited thirty Slav chieftains to a banquet whereat he killed all but one, who managed to escape by accident. In response, the Stodorani revolted against German overlordship and chased the Germans across the Elbe, but Gero was able to reverse this before Otto's arrival in Magdeburg later in the year. He subsequently bribed Tugumir, a baptised Slav prince, to betray his countryman and make his people subject to Germany. Soon after, the Obodrites and the Wilzes made submission.

Language / Need help with the Polish idiom about the weather in March [10]

'Po' has no sense here. If any correction, it should be 'bo'. And indeed, I've always known this proverb as such:

Kwiecień plecień, bo przeplata
trochę zimy, trochę lata.

Life / "Letter from Poland" - very important movie to watch [51]


Who? Me? But it was Harry who compared drink driving limits to being drunk on the job early in the morning.

Polish Forums -> News, Politics -> Official pressured pilots -> Message #10
A man who was legal unfit to drive a car at the time the plane crashed.

Life / "Letter from Poland" - very important movie to watch [51]


That's what I was pointing out at. Brits legally driving with 0.6 and more and Russian generals rarely going down to 0.6 ... All this has made Harry and Delphiandomine having sleepless nights as a result of poor Gen. Błasik's 0.6 pro mille level.

Life / "Letter from Poland" - very important movie to watch [51]


I wonder what such an assumption is based on? As I contradicted in one of the earlier threads on the matter the accusations of Gen. Błasik put forward by Delphiandomine and Harry who repeatedly and with their Anglo-Saxon malicious joy were calling him 'drunken' with 0.6 pro mille of alcohol in blood while at the same time never wishing to openly admit that the drunk drive limit in the UK and Ireland is 0.8 pro mille, I would say that the state of affairs within the Polish Air Force prior to the Smoleńsk disaster was - as now slowly emerges from the own Polish official investigation - quite deplorable, if not one of chaos and one driven by incompetence as well as negligence of procedures.