Language / Could you please help me to understand Oni vs One? [6]

Things and animals would be "one" too.
Konie - one są w stajni.
Horses - they are in the stable

Książki - one stoją na półce.
Books - they are sitting on the shelf

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


Multiculturalism has been working for me wonderfully. Perhaps that's because I detest racism and I'm curious about other cultures and I love meeting people that can show me a wrold I haven't known before.


Same with me, although I think I know what Jaszek5 has on his mind - it's not the Muslim people or Islam itself that is scary, but the extremist views that seem to have more power in some parts of the Islamic world that they have in Europe, even the Muslim people that I know are not happy about it. I think the way the problem is spoken about in the media is very wrong as it doesn't distinguish clearly enough between the extremists and the millions of normal Muslim people who are perfectly capable of living peacefully next to their Christian or atheist or other neighbours

Genealogy / Is Poland Germanic or Slavic? [58]


LOL

Luckily the broders between nations and people are not as rigid as some like to suggest, so yes, a Western Pole would probably find more in common with an Eastern German than a Russian would. Still, we are definitely Slavic and the language is the best proof. The fact that there are some words in Polish that are of Germanic origin doesn't change anything. You can take any sentence or even a longer text in Russian and translate it word for word into Polish or Czech and it would make perfect sense, because there are so many deep grammatical similarities between the languages. Try doing the same between Polish and German and you'd see how Germanic Polish is, lol

Love / I have a crush on my boyfriend's Polish friend ( advice needed ) [33]


they didn't just bang bang, they were making love, that what was so beautiful about it. I think I could do that if only I was sure that the person would not talk to me, words make things complicated. But people always want to talk.


that made me laugh so much :D :D

Life / My Słowianie (music video mocks stereotypes about Poles and Slavs) [46]

Then perhaps you could try meditation - no calories and very relaxing. Anger gives you very ugly wrinkles you know

Life / My Słowianie (music video mocks stereotypes about Poles and Slavs) [46]

that video is supposed to be a joke. No reason to hyperventilate. Get a shot of ****** vodka and relax

Life / My Słowianie (music video mocks stereotypes about Poles and Slavs) [46]


Me too


lol, I know a few real life Poles who are exactly "wypisz wymaluj" like that :D


Thank God, we don't. But I think we like to consider ourselves the best of Slavs and often times we look down at the rest of the Slavic world as if they were our refractory younger sibilings, even though the rest of Slavs thinks of us as some germanized westernized and generally degenerated version of Slavs ;)

Love / I have a crush on my boyfriend's Polish friend ( advice needed ) [33]


Long time ago I saw a movie, I can't remember the title, about a woman and a man who never spoke to each other and were only meeting to make love. I always find it fascinating - that connection between people that is beyond words, words always separate. One can't have a serious relatioship without words though

USA, Canada / American family moving to Poland - looking for advice! [44]


A friend of mine works there, I'll ask him for an honest opinion and will get back to you

Language / "No tak"; The Oddest Phrase In Polish For This American [75]


haha. I just like to think that i'm a bit exceptional when it comes to intelligence ;) But the people on here seem quite brainy, even if they are lacking in other virtues, so perhaps the explanation is ok

Language / "No tak"; The Oddest Phrase In Polish For This American [75]

I'm not sure if this can help people who are learning Polish. I don't know too many native Polish speakers who would understand what's written above

Life / What are those scars and cuts on many Polish guys' arms? [21]


We are just learning from you, folks

UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]


And do you know anyone who have actually done that? Because I only know 1) a friend who was diagnosed with cancer and was going for treatment back to Poland for a year. 2) another friend who had problems with her leg and was going to Poland every few weeks to be treated 3) another person who broke his leg and had to have a knee operation - went to Poland because all what the NHS doctors had to offer were painkillers 4) another friend who went back to India to have some tests done, because the NHS didn't offer her any and she'd been having problems for months; and I know more people like that. They all live and work in the UK. Why on earth would they choose costly and tiring travel and health services in some "backwarded" countries if they had the wonder of the British NHS right nxt door giving them high standard health care for free.

Another friend of mine has just recently had a baby in the UK - she was crying when she was talking to me - she said for 3 days nobody had given her baby a bath and she had taken him home with dried blood stuck in his ears and hair. She left the hospital on her own request because she started getting depressed.

These are all true stories.
I'm not saying there is no high standard health care in Britain, sure there is - but NOT on the NHS and NOT for free.

The NHS is famous among the nations of the world for treating every illness with paracetamol.

Life / What are those scars and cuts on many Polish guys' arms? [21]

Those sznyty are in Poland an equivalent to mating colours in other species - the more sznyty a male have the more manly and attractive he appears to women, the above picture would make many knees weak in Poland

UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]


Poles do pay for the nhs like everyone else, whether they use it or not; that's the problem with "free" health services - that you pay for it percentage of your wages whether you choose to use its crap services or not. That's a sort of legalised robbery. I would be more than happy to be excluded from using the NHS if it also meant that I can save my contributions.

Language / What the hell is "zeczeto"? [4]


It's the impersonal form of verb "zacząć".
Normally verbs in Polish have a "built-in" information about the subject - zaczął (he started), zaczęliśmy (we started), etc; but not the impersonal ones. I'd translate "zaczęto" as It was started/It has been started - although it's not quite literal

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]


:) funny how there is a term and a label for everything and yet the emotional side of life remains such a dense forest

History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]

I'd say it's a love and hate relationship. :) We love Russia and we detest her. We look down at Russia and yet we can't quite help admiring her. This kind of relationship, it's pretty toxic and addictive. I don't know how the Russians view it though

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]


I don't know. Is it not that we become forever responsible for what we have tamed? Is it not that once we've loved someone they become our family, someone who we can't just delete from our hearts and simply move on?

I told him once that I no longer wanted to be with him, it lasted for a week or two that we were sort of single, and he became very sad, a shadow of himself. It was very painful to see him in that state.


It might be true, it's even more scary when you live in a foreign country and your family is 2000km away; on the other hand I tend to become overly excited about the unknown so fear doesn't usually restrain me from making changes in life, the unknown usually is a turn on for me.


You're right but it's easier said than done. Because it's not like you either love someone or not; I find that sometimes we can no longer be in love in the romantic sense but still love that person as a human being

Or is it the aftermath of my Catholic upbringing and I feel subconsciously I must carry my cross? ;)

Life / I saw a bike-shop in Wrocław named "White Rower". [6]


Neither. This is where it comes from:



You're welcome.

Travel / Is it safe to travel to Poland? [194]


soo funny :)

But I know what you mean. I love my language, but... when you live abroad it can be too much of a good thing. After all, other languages are also by all means lovable...


:D

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


I like it. There's a difference between poor language skills and the accent, it might be difficult to communicate with someone who struggles to express themselves, but foreign accents I personally find cute :)

UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]


You forget about many foreign people, and many of them are Polish, who don't belong here, yet work and pay taxes so that British people can get benefits and NHS

If the EU is such a disaster for Britain, why don't you leave? Leave the EU, please. But you aren't leaving - you know why? Not because of Poles, Latvians or Portugese, but because the British people who own your country don't give a $h!t about what you think. Talk to them. Nobody on PF seems to have the power to change anything in Britain no matter how much you moan.

UK, Ireland / Polish in Britain - will I get decked if I speak Polish to these people? [63]


I think they would have been very pleasantly surprised. There are so very few foreign people who can speak Polish that even if someone can say something simple like Cześć or Jak się masz? it makes Poles amazed ;)

Law / Pakistani married to Polish Girl in Sweden [40]


That's the ignorance and hypocrisy of the West

Law / Pakistani married to Polish Girl in Sweden [40]


Go and do some sport before you die from hyperventilation

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]

Thank you very much.

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]


Not that I wanted to blame him, but I would like it to be less painful for him and for me. When I think of hurting him I'm feeling so guilty, my heart is breaking and I just can't face it. If he found another girl and wanted to leave himself, it would make things so much easier.


So your heart is a gypsy too :) Thank you so much, it's so good to hear I'm not the only one. I sort of know it's ended and even accepted the possibility of being single again, I guess I'm just waiting for the right moment to end it officially.

Love / Troubled relationship - is it because I'm Polish or should I blame it on his moustache? [28]

Pawian, he didn't cheat on me :) I wanted him to cheat on me, I wanted him to find someone but he didn't. But you're advocating forgiveness for cheating men so heatedly that it makes me wonder whether you have a clear conscience... ;)


:( This is what I'm afraid of.

Life / Poles in Videogames, movies, serials etc. from abroad .. [10]

:D cool stuff. Especially the last one - I didn't understand anything but one word :)