Life / Can I find Prozac in Warsaw? [7]

The Prozac of Life in absolutely zero value gives no fever of excitement; however, Poemac may be better.

Language / Polish grammar - do you have the same words for toes and fingers? [6]


And here English and other Germanic languages is odd one not Polish:

toes - Perhaps originally meaning "fingers" as well (many PIE languages still use one word to mean both fingers and toes), and thus from PIE root *deik- "to show"

Also look at the etymology of finger.

UK, Ireland / Websites for Poles to benefit from Britain! [210]


Laziness is a virtue that makes you avoid unnecessary effort - I love the English for that.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy
socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2010/12/our-new-year-resolution.html

Language / " Miawes matka and Meow " correct spelling and pronunciation of these phrases please [12]


Miałeś matkę - did you have a mother?

Miau - really did.

UK, Ireland / Do Poles and EU Citizens exploit the British welfare state [129]


Is going to be England's downfall??? When England is going to join the EU?

Life / Anti establishment Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski [20]


There are so many sheep and such a small green island to feed on!

Does the Green Party leader is misleading his/her sheep followers that do not take any initiative but follow him/her blindly and mindlessly?

Life / Anti establishment Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski [20]


What is the message then?

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]


Find the link in my previous post: Generał Jaruzelski na ogół nie protestował.

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]


The New York Times

JARUZELSKI IS SAID TO BAN ANTI-SEMITIC BROADCASTS[/url]
nytimes.com/1982/01/01/world/jaruzelski-is-said-to-ban-anti-semitic-broadcasts.html
By BERNARD D. NOSSITER
Published: January 1, 1982

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]

Some wise words of history and historians:

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pis-sing a cupful.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

God alone knows the future, but only a historian can alter the past.

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]

There are some subtleties of history for which to give full account of would mean that history would look more like a mathematical equation than something real and understandable. Let's say that the sentence you question is a mental shortcut, which for those who know history well, means that Jaruzelski was fighting the former Home Army units continuing their operations after the Home Army was officially dissolved in early 1945.

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]


Does it contradict the facts of the Polish Home Army?

Here goes an excerpt form the Wikipedia article on Home Army:

The Home Army was officially disbanded on 19 January 1945 to avoid civil war and armed conflict with the Soviets. However, many former Home Army units decided to continue operations. The Soviet Union, and the Polish Communist Government that it controlled, viewed the underground, still loyal to the Polish Government-in-Exile, as a force to be extirpated before they could gain complete control of Poland.

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]

I don't get it. What army? When? What sentence do you mean?

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]


Which ones?

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]


Whatever's your opinion, the most elementary thing is to base it on truth and established facts.

News / 20 YEARS ON A BETTER POLAND -- ALSO BETTER POLES? [21]

Five more years have passed. And now, after 25 years, there came a new way of looking at the past in Poland.

[polskieradio.pl/8/Audycja/9634] - A quarter of a century
[wyborcza.pl/1,137501,15976928,Jak_kusi_kasa__Spowiedz_liberala.html] - Confession of a Liberal

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Jaruzelski#Early_life_and_military_career

web.archive.org/web/20080613043840/
cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/jaruzelski/

Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski - Polish Prime Minister and Communist Party Leader

On 1 September 1939, the September Campaign started when Poland was invaded by Germany, with the latter country aided by another invasion begun sixteen days later by the Soviet Union. The invasions resulted in the defeat of Poland by the following month, and its partition between Soviet and German control. Jaruzelski and his family fled to Lithuania and stayed with some friends there. However, a few months later, after Lithuania and the other Baltic states were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, Jaruzelski and his family were captured by the army of the Soviet Union, and deported to Siberia. In 1940 at the age of sixteen, Jaruzelski was sent to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, where he performed forced labour in the Karaganda coal mines. During his labour work, having experienced snow blindness, he suffered permanent damage to his eyes and back.The damage to his eyes forced him to wear dark sunglasses most of the time, which became his trademark.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]


This shall be farewell to the very much Polish sound...



Słynne gładkie £
radio.bialystok.pl/reportaz/index/id/25909

Gwary polskie. Przewodnik multimedialny - the local Polish dialects

News / demonstration; What is Nowa Prawica? [30]


Locked up? but where? Some time ago he was a TV celebrity, virtually locked up in a TV studio -- verily the right-winged prophet accepted in his own country.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]


The basic information from Wikipedia:

Dialectal variation of vowels
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_phonology#Dialectal_variation_of_vowels

Dialectal variation of consonants
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_phonology#Dialectal_variation_of_consonants


In Warsaw, or central Poland, consonants at the end of words like brat or sąsiad remain voiceless, in the first case, and in the second, they are devoiced, so they are pronounced like brat, sąsiat, while in Cracow and Poznań, that is in the regions of Małopolska and Wielkopolska, they are pronounced as voiced: brad, sąsiad.

News / demonstration; What is Nowa Prawica? [30]


This is clearly an avant-garde of neo-Bolshevism, this time masked, like always morons do for the use of even more retarded fools, as newfangled icons of the right - i.e. they want to be seen as the scions of the famous Thatcher Reagan couple.

News / Priest from Poland claims Lego is "a tool of Satan" [35]


"The Lego Satan's" own words: "'Lego', a construction made partially from various Lego kits, takes us into a village with a mental hospital, Stalin's prison, World War II and Bosnian concentration camps. Thus, I feel I mix historical with contemporary references to represent our world, our little inferno, as built and sanctified by norms.

News / Priest from Poland claims Lego is "a tool of Satan" [35]


Life in the age of corporations:

Polish artist Zbigniew Libera plays with imagery and has become well known for the dark & controversial LEGO Concentration Camp Set that he designed in 1996. The LEGO Corporation gave Libera the bricks for free without a clear vision of Libera's project and not knowing he would use them for this purpose. This act, however, led Libera to include a controversial notice on his boxes saying "sponsored by LEGO Systems". LEGO insists that they did not endorse his artwork. His intention was to reflect on rationalism and education.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego._Obóz_koncentracyjny

Language / A little Polish grammar. Masculine, animate objects. [64]


The Slavonic Languages EDITED BY Bernard Comrie and Greville G. Corbett

News / Radek Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister, tries to annihilate Polish Slavic identity [19]


You are counting on an ignorant public of idiots!

Work / Is salary of 3000 Euros gross enough to live decently in Lodz, Poland? [53]

That there is no point in taking the poor and the rich for to get the average!

But you are right. I missed the point. I thought about the minimal not the average earning.

Work / Is salary of 3000 Euros gross enough to live decently in Lodz, Poland? [53]


A new record was broken in Poland: an employee's earn gross - 2,40 PLN per hour (about 0.49₤/hour):

Proposed by some employers rate per hour affront to human dignity. In Poland, the inglorious record established employer of Tri-City. He offered an attractive job in the profession bodyguard for PLN 2.40 gross per hour - reported by " Gazeta Wyborcza" .

It also describes the situation of people who are paid starvation godzinówki for his work on packing candy. As told Radio Information Agency Deputy Minister for Labour Andrew lotion, such situations are not possible if someone is employed salaried . Can not earn a month less than the minimum wage , which is currently 1,600 gold gross . " It is different in the case of employees on the basis of a service contract " - emphasized Minister lotion . He pointed out that the information that appeared in the press refer to civil law contracts . He added that if such an agreement has been concluded in accordance with the will of the parties , it is governed by other rules than the Labour Code.

Where the truth lies then?

Work / Is salary of 3000 Euros gross enough to live decently in Lodz, Poland? [53]


You are not gonna be a Pole, so do not ask why words do not match up with facts.

Language / Thank you note/letter to a professor in Polish [14]


Not a good advice! This is a very casual and overly familiar way of welcoming someone. I would advise you against using it even in a business correspondence.

"Witam" won't fit in here, witam is some of kind a good-day phrase...so its no chance to avoid Szanowna Pani / Szanowny Panie in this case.

You get it right

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


The poverty is truly the best and in fact the only shield against the invasion of foreigners who want to prosper in a foreign country. France should then lower her living standard and make poverty her highest virtue - Res sacra miser.