Language / Meaning of git majonez [7]

'git majonez' can mean perfectly alright, fine enough or somewhat better than fine enough

I don't know what actually literally 'git' means or meant (as far as I can tell 'git' or 'gites' was once in the past criminal slang for good, ok, fine or originally perhaps a fine fellow (a criminal one especially serving the sentence)- it then entered colloquial Polish) but majonez is simply 'mayonaise' -

the majonez is added to git just because it sounds handy, funny and interesting :) I smile when I think of 'git majonez' but I have some inclination towards pure nonsense

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


funnily enough the same thing is expressed in Polish with an expression 'to play a Greek - udawać Greka'

Language / chodźmy vs idźmy? [32]


you should sometimes bite your tounge .. er .. fingers Lyzko ;)

Language / chodźmy vs idźmy? [32]


I agree

Travel / Which bus from Poland to London via the Eurotunnel? [27]


must have been a nightmare - I traveled quite a bit by coach but was lucky not to have such experiences (I fear drunken people especially in groups)

Travel / Which bus from Poland to London via the Eurotunnel? [27]

look above - I've just edited my previous post

yes - the timetable suggest that they go by ferry but the lady on the infoline told me all their coaches use the tunnel

you can call them too perhaps just to check if they talk English too - if you have problems with the 0 801 number (I can't phone this number cause I have a pre-paid) use the regular line

Travel / Which bus from Poland to London via the Eurotunnel? [27]

I remember once crossing the English channel through the tunnel on a coach trip but can't remember the lines - perhaps check Sindbad - 0 801 22 33 44 or +48 77 443 44 44 - their are pretty big so they can have an option of going through the tunnel

edit: I just phoned them (Sindbad) - all their coaches go through the tunnel (I guess they it's because they are big) - you can even book online

Travel / Motorcycle tour of Poland [137]

paradoxically Poland does not offer much hairpining experience even in the mountains - the best thing I can think of is in Czech Republic close to the Polish border between Jesenik and Sumperk (in the Jeseniki mountains) - there is this mountain pass that the main road traverses and its a long stretch of hairpin turns (it easily takes more than half an hour by bus to cover)


or perhaps even a whole hour - can't remember that well

News / How long will it take for the first 9/11 to occur in Poland? [55]


well, that can be true unfortunately - I just don't know - but it would be nice to hear from Mr Mandierej or whatever he is called in some serious media just to cast away any doubts

Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

hahah - dualistic trap - you shouldn't watch gays getting physical cause you would be deemed gay instantly - look where this things take - and what if just want to watch and see - just out of curiosity ? :)

News / How long will it take for the first 9/11 to occur in Poland? [55]


btw isn't strange that you mention the police of Kiev while he was a witness in Smolensk (two different countries btw) - did he leave Smolensk for Kiev after the catastrophe? and if so why?

Work / Find Job in Poland - How difficult is the law for the foreigner [4]

depending on the area you can perhaps be better off giving private lessons of Spanish - Spanish is the most sought after foreign language in Poland after English and German

you can also try to look for a job in companies that deal with imports/exports from Hispanic countries - these are mostly located in bigger cities

another possibility is trying some multi-national companies - IBM opens an international support center in Wrocław for example - perhaps they still need people

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

yes, it is largely so - I cannot think of any exceptions now but I'm pretty sure there are some - appart from verbs and expressions that perfective and imperfective interchange smoothly like in the example Ziemowit has given

Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]

well if Adam Michnik is not a Jew than who is?

btw what does 'practicing' have to do with being Jewish

Language / What are the correct terms for "flower girl" and "ring bearer" in Polish? [8]

perhaps there are no such official titles/functions in a Polish wedding - I am not sure but never heard about such - there are groom's best men and bridesmades and that's all I am familiar with

News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]


there is little if anything Czech in Silesian dialect - Silesian dialect has just it's own peculiarities


the fact also remains that there are scores of Poles in Lithuania - and still noone sane in Poland wants to reclaim those lands for Poland - now consider the stance of the Vertriebene or whatever they call themselves - ever heard of Germans wanting their property back in Poland and I have heard of instances they actually got it - wonder according to what Polish laws - I have been once to a meeting with Jarosław Kaczyński - he made a speech and also answered questions from the public - in one of the answeres he addressed the issue of reprivatisation - he said we can't have a reprivatisation bill because we would have to give Germans their pre 45 property according to the rules of Strassburg Tribunal of Justice

News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]


it does not matter how Wrocław looks as long as 99 per cent of its citizens are Polish

News / Lithuanian ambassador 'Poles not loyal citizens' [63]


sorry but you are misguided on the issue - sizeable Polish minority remained in the countryside in Wilno vicinity after the WWII - and it was a conscious decision on the side of the USSR

Language / Why when spelling Polish names abroad, Polish letters are ignored? [68]


I know you can enter many signs with Alt + plus a numeric code - you need to switch the NumLock on - but it's pretty cumbersome - there is a small utility for windows that opens a small window with various symbols you can enter almost anywhere

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


yes- this must be true - I think you needed an invitation to another communist country to enter - my dad worked in Czechoslovakia for some time back in the 80's and also my aunt lives in Ostrava (was married to a Czech guy)

Travel / Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk and Krakow - Five Polish Cities in Google Street View [17]

pawian, Kraków has definitely changed much since I have been there for the last time

but still was changing the names of the streets to Spanish really necessary??? :P

Language / Why when spelling Polish names abroad, Polish letters are ignored? [68]

borowik, I don't think they have a thing like Polish alt+basic feature in German - they have their national characters on their specific national keyboards - you need to use shift to use some of these characters IIRC

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


there was not much contact for various reasons - (one was mutual dislike I guess) - but the crossing was not limited access area - I was travelling to Prague as a kid in the middle 80's and Kudowa area was normally accessible so was Nachod area from the Czech side

Life / The day Poland ran out of artists. [40]

I really like the paintings of Jacek Pałucha

palucha.pl/english.htm

News / Tusk drops Chinese COVEC building the A2 motorway in Poland [83]


they also mention unsufficiently recognized geological conditions which if true can't be a fault of COVEC - and that GDDKiA ignored any complaints from the Chinese about that - I don't think GDDKiA is so very competent - very late payments also tell a thing - it's not that GDDKiA is bursting with cash or perhaps that some machinations were in place to throw the Chinese out of business

Language / Why when spelling Polish names abroad, Polish letters are ignored? [68]


as far as I know such keyboards are available (with the diacrytics on the keys) but are not popular - if I wanted to learn to type on that national keyboard I would have to bascially learn to type all those national characters anew (as I use the key combinations to write them)

there was a thread on Polish keyboard layouts some time back here in the forum

News / Tusk drops Chinese COVEC building the A2 motorway in Poland [83]


I don't trust such statements - especially that more companies reflected on the late payments from GDDKiA

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


not in Nachod Magdalena - all 'mixed' Czech-Polish exist next to the border with Upper Silesia - inhabitants of both sides of the border of Nachod area came there only after the WWII and I would guess they don't speak locally developed dialects


btw I had a completely different experience from Jesenik - maybe the lady was from Lach dialect speakin area who knows - I knew nothing of Lach dialects back then - still I wanted to order a meal in a bar - these were 'tasticky' - I tried that in Czech and the lady just asked 'Pan chtiel te pierożki,tak?' :)

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

not sure - but I would say rural areas around Kraków have their own special way of speaking - I wouldn't say I 'zaciągam' when I speak normally - but sure I can zaciągawszy a little bit - the Kurpian dialect is a zaciągający one

two clarify a thing a bit - my mother's parents came from the area of £omża and they used to speak with Kurpian charasterstics especially grandma - it was cute