News / Poland: veterans and freedom-fighters want Jaruzelski posthumously demoted [20]


On what basis? If simply serving in the PRL is grounds for loss of rank then why aren't all doctorates and professional licenses obtained in the PRL also revoked?

Life / If you are Polish abroad or of Polish descent, do you celebrate St. Nicholas day? [33]


That's like saying "you're breating oxygen, Polly". Not being fair is what he does.

It is odd that he still carries the citizenship of a country whose culture he thinks so little of....

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]


IINM ustęp now usually refers to an outhouse. If it's indoors with running water it's a toaleta.

News / Poland: veterans and freedom-fighters want Jaruzelski posthumously demoted [20]


If you didn't do it in 1989 (which would have effectively liquidated the Polish armed forces) there's no point in doing it now. Symbolic gestures have their place, but that place is not distracting the public from the financial mismanagement of the current government.

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


They can't say šćiptar? albanian q is more or less ć

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]

shqiptar = Albanian autonym (name for themselves)

shiftar = slur, used by bigots

the difference is similar to Polak (Polish autonym) and Pollack (slur used by bigots)

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]


Yes. Czech is as well (and all the non-Eastern Slavic languages AFAICT). I think just Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussion are non-pro drop (the latter two largely under the influence of the first).

Work / Information about jobs for Indian students in Poland [286]


But he'l also have to almost create a market for Indian seasonings (ime Indian food is very much not to the tastes of many Polish people and is not kind to the stomaches of some that do like that).

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]


Like all languages, you can make tons of mistakes and be understood if there's some goodwill on the other side.


In Poland, most people would. Outside of Poland, it's harder to tell.

Study / Turkish guy to study at a university in Poland. Is that problem for Polish people? [139]


Believe me, the ones who cover their hair won't be happy until you do too....

News / V4 (Poland) wants Serbia and 5 others in EU [60]


But it's a nice way to point out how much further ahead the V4 countries are....

Language / Correct Spelling - Stacy / Stasia? [12]

Can't anyone read here? The OP wasn't looking for a Polish equivalent of Stacey but rather trying to figure out what Stacey's grandmother called her. The best guess (since there is not equivalent to Stacey in Polish) is that the grandmother added a Polish diminutive to an abbreviated from of Stacey.

Stejsiusia (vocative, when calling or addressing her: Stejsiusiu) is the likely answer.

Language / Correct Spelling - Stacy / Stasia? [12]


Huh? I thought that would be Stacy robi siusi or Stacy siusia

Steysiusia sounds more like P1ssy Stacy or Stace-p1ss or something like that, and I can easily imagine a slightly Americanized Polish person thinking that would be a cute nickname.

Study / Turkish guy to study at a university in Poland. Is that problem for Polish people? [139]


But if the want to because they are rejecting western secular civil societies (the completely clear agenda of the Muslim brotherhood that created it a few decades ago), then Turkey is in trouble.

Religion (any religion) is like fire. It has its uses but it's a dangerous servant and a terrible master. Any country ruled by religion quickly turns into a terrible, terrible place to live.

Travel / Poland's PKP Intercity ticket booking not working? [6]


Don't take my word for it! If all else fails (and if you're in Poland) you can go to a train station (I would on Dec 2 or 3). At any rate keep checking.

Study / Turkish guy to study at a university in Poland. Is that problem for Polish people? [139]


For how much longer? Erdogan has been ramping up the islamization. The last time I was there a lot more young women were wearing hijab (a symbol of islamic rejection of secular society) than the first time. And since the phony coup things have probably only gotten worse.

The tourist coast and Istanbul (and maybe Ankara) are probably still largely secular but economic growith has pulled in many from the completely non-secular countryside and they bring their values (one of which is religious rather than secular rule) with them.

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]


I remember back in the early 90s talking with a Croat who said that his family was fine with Jugoslavija until Milosevic started ranting about Greater Serbia (which included Split where they lived). They didn't mind being in a federated state with Serbia but directly under Zagreb but absolutely did not want to be governed directly from Belgrade.....

And once he let the nationalist genie out of the bottle the only end state was going to be six separate countries.

Please back on topic

Travel / Poland's PKP Intercity ticket booking not working? [6]


IIRC you used to be able to only buy 30 days in advance (and you couldn't buy ticket for all types of trains on line). Not sure it that's still true....

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

I was in a museum in Ljubljana (nice city, if a bit rainy) that said different.

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]


So? Slovenians went to war to get away from Serbs and Serbia....

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]


No. That is completely insane. That's like saying gravity tastes like chocolate or that time has polka dots....

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]


Proto-Indo-European is estimated to have been spoken no more than 6000 years ago while Clovis culture items are dated about 6000 years before that.

Even if the mad hypothesis were true they wouldn't be proto-slavs they'd be proto-proto-proto-Indo-Europeans and not Serbian at all.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


Does that explain why the late brother was detained during martial law and JK wasn't? hmmmmmm

One long standing tactic among political establishments of all stripes is to promote people with skeletons in their closet that can be used to keep them in line. I wonder what JK's skeletons (or his closet) were....

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


As long as you're not upset by the term "Polish death camps" to refer to camps that are within the borders of the current republic of Poland.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


Just as you are insensitive to the pain and desperation of those who don't want their loved ones' graves desecrated for cheap political gain.


You just can't think without demeaning other nationalities can you? How insenstive is that? You call yourself a christian?

News / NGOs - activism or nest-feathering in Poland? [8]

No.... this is political correctness to a T. Political correctness isn't "crazy liberal ideas". Political correctness is the attempt to control what people can say and to make it impossible to publicly discuss inconvenient facts - like the fact that the current Polish government is using the PRL as a model....

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]

That's kind of an ad hominem. Care to address why the government turning into grave robbers is a 'good change'?

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]


Wow. The crazy just never stops with you, does it?

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]


No. There is not.

Study / Turkish guy to study at a university in Poland. Is that problem for Polish people? [139]


This is a bit simple-minded. Yes, muslims are human beings with all the positive and negative implications of that.
They have similar goals in life in the sense that they have the same drives (food, shelter, reproduction etc)
But... they tend to have very different values (preferred state of affairs) from most Europeans.
Muslim values tend to be more hierarchical, less individualistic, more concerned with piety and more obsessive about sexual differences than those of most Europeans.
Small differences in values can produce very large differences in behavior, especially when the prevailing values in a minority group clash with those of the majority.

Can you find a single example of a muslim immigrant community in Europe that isn't dependent on welfare and which isn't overrepresented in crime?