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


As Americans sometimes say "haters gonna hate". Every society has its inadequates.


Nope, just rip up paving stones and hurl them at innocent people.

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Meaning that the line-up the Mayor's decision. If TVPiS attempt to politicise it (they really can't help themselves sometimes) and this causes yet another PiS scandal, then the Mayor is entitled (andindeed obliged) to respond decently and apolitically.

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


I doubt anyone who lost a family member to a bombing my members of either of those tendencies would agree with you.


In Manchester, this has been happening since the bomb.


Fortunately only a minority of people are haters. The public response of Mancunians of all roots and religions demonstrates this.

News / PIS councillor wants to censor Poland's history book [148]


Attempting to photoshop history to promote their right-wing aganda. They just can't help themselves.

Fortunately it was a failure.

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This is true.


Also highly respected. PiS fans naturally hate it.


They have no concept of doing something in a politically neutral or even dignified way.

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Which didn't even work.


I don't think that outspokenly insecure xenophobes actually have any boundaries or standards of decency.

And in Manchester, things go on as they always have.

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Not actually that funny and a bit of a dying art now.


Because trhere was of course no 'boycott'. They simply weren't interested in taking part.

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

Most terrorism in Manchester (and there has been sadly plenty over the years) was actually carried out by Catholics from Ireland. This latest outrage was done by a born and bred British citizen - certainly not a migrant.

And Manchester stands strong, with local churchgoers and mosque worshippers reaching out in friendship, and will remain every bit as diverse as ever before.

News / PIS councillor wants to censor Poland's history book [148]


Out where?

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Yes.

Fortunately, the attempt at censorship has been slapped down by the Mayor's office. A good thing, because the book in question presents the life of Zamenhof well.

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That isn't the target audience of the book that the renegade PiS official wanted to censor.


Nor is that part of the life of Ludwik Zamenhof, Bialystok's most famous son, who died in 1917.

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It just looks like neither of them chose to perform at that gig. Why should they? Does Piotr Rubik do concerts for SLD?

Poland isn't North korea, despit the PiS junta's attempt to make it as close as they can get away with.

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Perhaps by you. Not by the people who prefer it as a news source.

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Don't take tabloids word for word. As you very well know, they present situations that simply aren't there.

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Or simply responsible reporting.

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There is no such prospect, Po. And your link is to tabloidy trash.


We'll see more of her, I'm sure and I hope.

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Good for her! A great singer, popular entertainer. She's always come across as one of the good guys. I think she does quite a bit for charity?


That comment is so inane that mere words barely exist with which to express its stupidity and inaccuracy.

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She's so established (and has doubtless banked a fortune over the decades) that she isn't susceptible to any sort of influence. She is someone very capable of making up her own mind.

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

In which case, we have to stress the headwords like cup.


That's the nature of some languages, English, Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish. The lingua franca develops without the regional alternatives which are just something to learn as needed. No 'masquerading' though.

There's already a standard European English, used as a lingua franca here. Poles learn 'cup' and 'glass'; other terms are encountered later.

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This isn't, though, is it, Po...


Airbrushing one of the most significant events in Bialystok during Zamenhof's life from the book would very much have the opposite effect.

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

Remember, I-S, that both were fantastically expensive during those years. Even in Britain, a tea drinking country then, the poorest were drinking things made from nettles etc well into the C19th and tea leaves, even among the better off, were routinely re-used.In Poland at that time, in villages there were wooden and tin mugs.


Indeed, though I'd say it's a joy rather than a problem, unless you're a learner with certain L1s. A huge problem for Poles (I'll do a thread on this later maybe) is words in English that have come directly from other languages - they keep asking "but what's the English word?" and aren't always happy with (to keep it on topic) 'demi-tasse' or whatever.


Sociolects, for example, do exist in Polish, especially around food and drinks. It's simply that the drift to a standard language during the post-war years has meant that not everyone is sensitive to that.

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The way things look, that's very unlikely and increasingly so by the day.

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

In English, a shot sounds like something from a students' bar, and a bump wouldn't make sense.

News / Opole townsfolk outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival [137]

This is already being discussed in another thread. The one about Poland's political scene.

Mischievous, and a typically offensive title by Po,

Needs merging.

News / PIS councillor wants to censor Poland's history book [148]


You presume incorrectly.


The term Graphic Novel is used widely.

This one is a particularly good one, and approved by the city of Bialystok as one of many ways of honouring the city's most famous son.

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The imporatnt thing is that PiS, as usual, had to back down. The graphic novel in question isn't aimed at 'youthful troglodytes', nor is it a computer game.

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Since somebody made one, by all accounts an interesting one.

News / PIS councillor wants to censor Poland's history book [148]


The topic of the thread is the silly attempt to rewrite a piece of the history of Bialystok. Fortunately knocked back by the council there.

News / PIS councillor wants to censor Poland's history book [148]


Nor is anyone obliged to promote an opposing view. Do you?


No wonder, given his act of stupidity.