Language / Consonant voicing and devoicing - Upodobnienia pod względem dźwięczności [3]


In phonology, devoicing or desonorization is a sound change where a voiced consonant becomes voiceless due to the influence of its phonological environment. Most commonly, the change is a result of sound assimilation with an adjacent sound of opposite voicing, but it can also occur word-finally.

Consonant voicing and devoicing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant_voicing_and_devoicing

Utrata dźwięczności / ubezdźwięcznienie = devoicing / desonorization

upodobnienie martwe = diachronic or historical sound change

Assimilation (linguistics)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimilation_%28linguistics%29

History / The Solidarity Movement in Poland - your favourite Kaczmarski's song [4]

Jacek Kaczmarski - Nasza klasa

History / The Riga Peace Treaty [64]

Why Soviet monuments should be protected - an article from the Guardian


theguardian/world/2014/sep/29/soviet-ussr-monuments-should-be-protected

The Soviet army played a major role in saving this part of Europe from the realisation of Hitler's master plan in the east, which proposed the colonisation, enslavement and eventual extermination of the Slavic population.

For Russians as for any other nation to honor their veterans of wars is to honor not only heroes, but victims. Think of them as of very young people.

There is a 100 word limit when copying and pasting from internet sources.

UK, Ireland / Why English do not like Polish? [417]


If you are right then ignoring of what you do not like in the English and even pretending not to understand them is the best recourse.

Language / How to learn the pronunciation of the Polish language? [16]


What is lacking in your case is more exercises - try to repeat after a model of pronunciation and follow your not too perfect but good enouth intuition.

I propose google translate as a model for you: translate.google.com/#pl/en/bezprzewodowa

Language / How to learn the pronunciation of the Polish language? [16]

Very interesting!

Do you mean by that that in your head you're the perfect speaker of Polish and externalizing your speech you are not?

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]


If you would have my advice, I will give it to you in short: the number of iatrogenic diseases is exceeding the natural ones. To the wise the hint should be sufficient.

History / Heresy of Germanization and/or Anglicanization - The genesis; Polish, Slavic opinion [14]

In the longue durée of economic history, beyond, or beneath, the cycles and structural crises, lie old attitudes of thought and action, resistant frameworks dying hard, at times against all logic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longue_dur%C3%A9e

History / Heresy of Germanization and/or Anglicanization - The genesis; Polish, Slavic opinion [14]

The way of all heretics:

First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Tony Benn

Knowledge of the English language, for example, occurs useful to get to know a liberating from dogmatism story of Neoliberalism:

youtube.com/watch?v=PkWWMOzNNrQ

News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]


From Everyone According to His Whim, to Everyone Whatever One may Wish for and without any coersion or outside pressure - the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth should work for everyone; in short: od każdego według jego zachceń, każdemu co dusza zapragnie

Life / Most UK DAB radios don't work on Poland's DAB network [12]

Public radio coverage in Poland:



RadioPolska Blog
radiopolska.pl/blog/category/dab

Po polsku / Polskie filmy, seriale z polskimi napisami to learn Polish? [14]


Ostatni dzień lata
sfkadr.com/lista-dialogowa,1205,1,show-6228,dialog

Było rozdarcie, nienawiść, niechęć wzajemna i grymas. Był zaułek ślepy i płaskie twarze murów, dziobate od salwy. Wywalani z bydlęcych wagonów, stado pędzone razami i rykiem. A obok - tylko łapy psów. £apy psów... £apy psów... Ja wiem, nie trzeba tak... Ja wiem, ja wiem... Ale kiedy przyjaciel wyciągnie rękę, zasłaniam głowę jak przed ciosem. Zasłaniam się przed ludzkim gestem, zasłaniam się przed odruchem czułości.

Language / The combinations bi, ci, fi, gi, ki, mi, ni, pi, si, wi, zi [3]


Note that "i" here is only a sign of softening the previous consonant and then goes always a vowel. So for example niebo (there is no ń initially) and słoń (not initially - midword or final position) sound the same. "F" in the word Firma may sond a bit soft because of assimiltaion to the following sond, but here only spoils the clean orthographic rule.

Po polsku / Rodzina zastępcza [10]

SÓL ZIEMI CZARNEJ cały film

UK, Ireland / My opinion on why Poles & English dislike each other [25]

You mean machine translation not speech recognition software.

I find her writing perfectly understandable but a bit clumsy. It would be more understandable if she began for example like this:

I want to tell you why it is said that the English doesn't like the Polish and vice versa.

At the beginning, I think it appropriate to say something about myself: I'm one quarter Polish and three quarters English thus my comments should not be viewed as biased...

UK, Ireland / My opinion on why Poles & English dislike each other [25]


The OP (as I understand the original poster) is she not he.


I wot not what.

UK, Ireland / My opinion on why Poles & English dislike each other [25]


This is the way of thinking I wouldn't like to put up with.

The Democratic country's mission must also be to reach out personally to each and every person: since this man is the way for the Democracy, the way for its daily life and experience, for its mission, the Democracy of today must be aware in an always new manner of man's 'situation.

The pontifical tone not for me to assume.

UK, Ireland / My opinion on why Poles & English dislike each other [25]


Why do the British address the working people with such language that you wouldn't use to address the people who employ them?

Wouldn't it be better for employees to choose their employers to redress the balance? Setting a good example would better the situation of working people not only in Britain but elsewhere as well.

Poles would then return to Poland and everyone would be happy.

UK, Ireland / Modern day slavery in the UK [36]

Yes indeed - nothing to sell but only to practice.

UK, Ireland / Modern day slavery in the UK [36]

The answer is simple but maybe unacceptable for more modern minds: austerity and self-denial especially for the rich and opulent, but not only for them.

UK, Ireland / Modern day slavery in the UK [36]


What do you think then of Noam Chomsky's campaing:

Let me begin by saying something about liberalism, which is a very complicated concept, I think. It's correct surely that liberalism grew up in the intelectual environment of the rejection of the authority and so on. However liberalism has undergone a very complex evolution as a social philosophy over the years. If we go back to the classics, or at least, say, for example, Humboldt's limits of state action, which inspired Mill... The world Humboldt was considering - partially an imaginary world - was a post-feudal but pre-capitalist world.

This is a part of his answer to the last question asked by Bryan Magee (1978 BBC programme):

youtu.be/3LqUA7W9wfg

UK, Ireland / Modern day slavery in the UK [36]

The story of William Wilberforce seems a very pleasing one - the one the slave owner would ever tell if he wanted to be seen as good... at least in his own eyes.

UK, Ireland / Modern day slavery in the UK [36]


No matter how learned you were, sometimes you won't do anything to prevent himself falling into the trap waiting for you. Just don't go to countries practicing slavery and having a long history of spreading it around the world.

Love / Do Polish girls lose their virginity later than most [14]


Blessed be the virgins for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

UK, Ireland / Polish Mineral Water In the UK [7]

What makes the Polish mineral water so special? Is the Polishness of the water, as its essential quality, that makes it so tasty?