News / New Polish traffic laws [25]


We had those ads in the U.K. too. Any big change about safety needs a lot of publicity.

Language / Interslavic artificial language [35]


They certainly spaff enough dosh on this, with very limited success despite using legislation in France as well as bribery and coercion in former French colonies (several of which have officially dropped French as a second language while others are in the process of so doing). It's nigh on impossible to control a language. They are living things and nobody 'owns' them.

Language / Interslavic artificial language [35]

Exactly; glad you got the point. As ungrammatical as YouTube.

Language / Interslavic artificial language [35]

That had occurred to me already. Long before you tried to find fault.

YouTube in English however is as ungrammatical a neologism as WasRura would be in Polish.

Language / Interslavic artificial language [35]


Nobody can control a language (though the Academie Francaise have certainly tried hard enough over the years, hence in part the failure of Esperanto, Volapuk and this Interslavic language. There needs to be a tangible benefit in communicating in any given language rather than an ideal.

Interesting that the YouTube (WaszaRura?) video is introduced in English...

Language / Interslavic artificial language [35]


There's a long thread on this already: https://polishforums.com/language/slovio-international-simplified-slavic-41239/. It's easy enough to understand, however it's unlikely to catch on in PL; English is so widely taught and used as a second language.

Food / Vodka for a Polish Wedding [40]


Warsaw, of course.


Very much so. It's hard tp go wronh with Wyborowa. Absolut is also a good choice.

Food / Vodka for a Polish Wedding [40]

Not so much here. Home-made wine, occasionally yes (especially Czeremcha).

Food / Vodka for a Polish Wedding [40]

It's more about how some people see it.

Food / Vodka for a Polish Wedding [40]


Yes. A few still do; including myself from time to time. The key is going for quality rather than quantity. I'd be careful though about mentioning it to people in real life.


I like this one (great label), however whenever I've served it or brought a bottle anywhere, people look puzzled and ask why I chose that one.

Food / Vodka for a Polish Wedding [40]

If you get a chance to try a Wiśniówka made from sour cherries, it's worth it. It wouldn't be the main drink served at a wedding, though.

Wyborowa is a decent vodka and OK to serve anywhere.

Food / Vodka for a Polish Wedding [40]


Not quite the same as Wiśniówka (of which there are different types anyway). Wiśniówka is a cleaner and more cherry-tasting drink.

Food / Vodka for a Polish Wedding [40]


Thank you.


Remember that Bimber isn't quite respectable. Not hard to imagine people not talking about it.

Food / Vodka for a Polish Wedding [40]


The diaspora are urban. Bimber is rural.

Travel / Traffic jams Warsaw Monday morning? [6]


I'm in the northern suburbs of Warsaw and have those 2 choices in the morning. Wisłostrada can be slow at that time, however the Marymont route is usually worse and less predictable.

It might be a good bet to drive further down Wisłostrada and enter the city centre via ul. Ludna, rather than Solidarności.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


I remember whwn I went to live in Poznań a few years ago. There was something that I noticed but couldn't put my finger on. Something that reminded me of my childhood years ago (in one of the Yorkshire coalfields). Then I figured out what it was; it was the taste of coal smoke and coal dust in the air.

Doesn't exactly help the local life-expectancy...

Study / Where to study International Relations / Business, Finance in English: Warsaw University or Jagiellonian [10]


You also said today:


which you claim to have found on some scam website called 'freeapply'. You must be very tired commuting the several hundred miles between the two. That and the workload of two courses.

Plus of course the [quote=Angie Lika]Higher School of Infrastructure and Management in Warsaw[quote]last year, as you also said today. A busy person, studying such diverse disciplines. Doutless you also found it through the same dodgy 'freeapply' website (btw, all the institutions you mentioned already have established admission procedures.

Give my regards to your 'sister' who you claim is studying in Poznań (and probably in Rzeszów at the same time if she can teleport like you.

Life / Is the palace in Warsaw going to be rebuilt? [29]


They're good architecture.


Quite. It works well as it is now.

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]


It was (pre-JPII) more the other way round.

Life / Why do gays dislike Wojciech Cejrowski, travel writer? [18]

Of which he is a self-hating member. Not that there is any particular separate 'community'; people do not live in isolation from society.

Life / Where to buy a good dog for a good price in Warsaw? [12]


Probably not - his name suggests otherwise.

Mind you, when I worked with Filipinos, they assured me that the meat is delicious.

Food / What's up with all the Georgian food in Poland now? [12]

There's more and more Georgian wine for sale now; not all of it good.

Life / Where to buy a good dog for a good price in Warsaw? [12]


You can get young dogs there too.

Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]


I have a few friends here who always ask me to bring some back to PL.

The shops here in Warsaw seem to have more and more strong cheeses and also things with chilli in.

Travel / Meluzyna - Anyone been to this steak house in Bydgoszcz? [11]


Sadly yes. The Alchemist (pl. Pilsudzkiego 2) does have good steaks though...

Life / Where to buy a good dog for a good price in Warsaw? [12]

The dog sanctuary at Paluch has plenty of very nice doggies waiting for good homes.

Work / Salary of a paramedic in Poland [22]


People can make more than that flipping burgers at MacDonald's...

News / Tram line to Warsaw's Wilanów finally to be built. [35]

It's very much inter-agency, with the city holding the transport masterplan. The region as a whole has a voice too.

One issue is that there are a lot of competing demands for infrastructure development, some real holes in transport provision, and of course the city is still expanding.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Chęciny!

I visited once and liked it, though Ogrodzeniec is maybe my favourite around there.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Looks a bit like Olsztyn.