Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

..in the UK perhaps, about which I can't comment, not being from there:-) Here though, it's used all the time!!

Back on topic please

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

English is also Prodrop, but ONLY in slang:-)) 'Havin' a great time!, 'First time here, Sandra? etc....

Language / Help with correct Polish grammar - "Wojownik Warszawa" or "Warszawa Wojownik"? [9]

Rather like "Tygodnik Powszechny" or "Powszechny Tygodnik"!

In fact, the FORMER is the correct one (although the latter could also be right):-)

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

As I learned Polish before Russian, I too was in the habit of NOT writing/saying "Ja" when it was necessary:-)

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

Insightful in a twisted sort of way, I suppose.

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

"This chap did a bloody good job." sounds as charactaristically "ENGLISH" as "Czuwajcie chłopci!" sounds Polish!

Written correctly aka naturally, in context, a native Pole likely couldn't tell whether the latter were written by a Polish or foreign native speaker.

To hear it spoken though, would in all likelihood be a dead giveaway:-)

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

Must sound as comic to a native Pole to hear 'outsiders" use Polish slang, as for English to hear someone obviously NOT from the Midlands, for example, saying, "Dees tschopp deed ah blahdii goot vorrrk." etc.

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

...like a local, perhaps, but NOT necessarily a "native" local! Native speakers surely can detect whether the user is also a native speaker as opposed to either a very clever (or ambitious) foreignerLOL

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

This is also where Polish tends to differ from Russian, where the "ja" is ABSOLUTELY necessary, cf. "Wiem." vs. "Ja znaju.", whereby the pronoun MUST be said, as well as written:-) My Russian tutor told me, since I kept making understandable transference errors from Polish to Russian, that if I simply say, "Znaju", a Russian would certainly consider it wrong, and might even re-cast my answer to make sure THEY understood me!

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

???
What in heaven's name are you talking about?

Do you ever proofread the stuff you post?
lol

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

Are you as "amazed" that many interested Poles aka Europeans "bother" to try to perfect their English?
This is as much at the root of your grammar as tenses, spelling, and idioms are at the root of ours:-)

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

Well then, gumishu, would you've preferred that they served in an overwhelmingly higher-level capacity??
How about no capacity at all:-) Don't see your point.
lol

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

Erdogan has wrought irreparable damage to your lovely and ancient country, Miss Merve!

Instead of heeding Ataturk's stirring call "Turk, be proud!", today, I sadly know of all too many Turks who are ashamed of their nation and even of their Sunni Muslim heritage because of this rural ruffian:-)

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

Yo, people! What does this have to do with the discussion thread "The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis...."???

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

@TheOther, when most histories refer to "The Nazi Invasion of Poland", they're usually referring to 1939, which was around the time of the Night of Broken Glass throughout the Reich, and NOT to the military takeover of the so-called "Polish Corridor"!

There's sometimes confusion on this point, since Poland was in fact invaded twice within the last twenty years, including 1939:-)

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

1939 was the year German troops pressed into Gleiwitz/Gliwice and declared Poland to be German territory, one year to the day following the invasion of the Sudetenland! Poland didn't invade Germany. She couldn't and she knew it also.

It most certainly was an invasion, dress it up any way you like...Lebensraum/-born or no Lebensraum!!!

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

New York City too thought that what she needed was a "(monkey-)businessman, and we elected Ed Koch, Reagan's little puppet from hell!!

Typically Republican, Koch (much as with Trump) was famous for that whacko, not to mention mean-spirited, phrase: "It's not if you're movin', it's WHEN you're movin'!"

As per usual, there's no trace of a hint as to the most important (yet of course, unanswered) question, "WHERE???"

Trump's slash-and-burn style of business dealing reminds this observer a heck of a lot of that corporate takeover fella Al Dunlap during the early 90's, who'd come into a company, fire half the staff who really needed the work, and then gave both himself as well as the top brass golden parachutes which'd make your head spin!!!

Yup, Trump's right in form. Hey, maybe he should make great decision by getting rid of Pence and hiring Sarah "Nut-Job" Palin as VeepLOL

:-)

I don't wish Trump on Poland!

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

From your mouth in the EU-High Court's ear, Observvver, because if Bruxelles had her way, the whole of Europe would be forced, for commercial purpose, to twist themselves into a pretzel, using a language which is basically foreign to them:-)

Off topic, I know, but I couldn't resist, modsLOL

Life / Should I expect racism as a 'black' woman in Poland [149]

"Undermining the social cohesion of a nation is toxic."

Couldn't agree more, and that's what Trump is trying to do. Thankfully, he won't succeed, because (cockeyed optimist that I am), I believe that there are more right-thinking than wrong-thinking people in this most inexhaustible nation on earth!!

We won't be done in, out-trumped, by the Donald, no matter how rich he is:-)

BACK ON TOPIC, PLEASE

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

That's obvious:-)

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

Anyone hoping to use English in Poland in a serious, legal situation is barking up the wrong tree and is in for a rude awakening:-)

Language / Difficult verb pairs in the Polish Language; iść-chodzić, jechać-jeździć [34]

....it's also why certain verbs have either ONLY one form, perfective, OR imperfective, and NOT both!! Most verbs though are paired.
:-)

Language / Difficult verb pairs in the Polish Language; iść-chodzić, jechać-jeździć [34]

@Dominic and Mafketis, again, many thanks!

Only to reiterate, this has been for me much like explaining Dative and Accusative cases along with transitive/motion vs. intransitive/rest to my students of German:-)

It takes while NOT to confuse concepts.

Language / Difficult verb pairs in the Polish Language; iść-chodzić, jechać-jeździć [34]

Chodzę do kościoła. = I go to church [regularly]. vs. Idę do kościoła. = I'm going to church [at this moment].

This the general idea? The former would seem to me to be imperfective, the latter perfective.
Maybe I somehow forgot the distinction between these terms in the course of many years:-)

Language / Difficult verb pairs in the Polish Language; iść-chodzić, jechać-jeździć [34]

Non-Slavs find exactly THIS distinction perplexing, as we tend to think differently regarding action and what perhaps SEEMS perfective to a foreigner is imperfective to a Polish native speaker:-)

Herein lies the difficulty, I think. It's almost like explaining German case and motion vs. rest to an Anglo-Saxon. What seems normal, logical, and natural in one language, is opposite in the other!

Language / Difficult verb pairs in the Polish Language; iść-chodzić, jechać-jeździć [34]

Highly simplified, but sort of gets the larger idea across:-)

Language / Difficult verb pairs in the Polish Language; iść-chodzić, jechać-jeździć [34]

A not so small flaw, but the poster writes "jeździć" which is correct, then switches to "jeżdzić", a trap into which yours truly also fell, shame on meLOL

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

... or any responsible encyclopedia will do nicely:-)

Language / Difficult verb pairs in the Polish Language; iść-chodzić, jechać-jeździć [34]

The question is so basic to Polish grammar, that the learner must at best be no more than perhaps an advanced beginner:-)

@Dominic,

a nice breakdown on your part!

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

I know for a fact that the Danes rallied a grassroots support AGAINST the Germans during WWII, spearheaded chiefly by Kaj Munk, which knows almost no parallel during the period!

Country wide, Danes helped their fellow Jews, many of whom were total strangers, usually for no compensation, but out of Christian duty.

Such can be easily looked up, Ironside, even by you:-)