Genealogy / Do Polish people have big noses? [450]

I've been away from this thread for a while.
I've been making puppets using two plates for their mouths.

Genealogy / Do Polish people have big noses? [450]


I'd rather tread on a hose.
For any further meanings of wąż, treading should NOT be involved.


A small joke about a big nose.

Genealogy / Do Polish people have big noses? [450]

wąż is also snake...

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


We now have the correct place to discuss these matters.

https://polishforums.com/archives/2005-2009/life/poland-redheads-14952/

The answer to the original question can be settled by my answer:
My old mate Daerk does not have blond hair.
Neither was it blond before it went grey.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

I thought the idea that ALL Poles have blonde hair and blue eyes seemed a bit much.
I'll start a new one as soon as I can be bothered.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


I wonder if he's found any yet.

Perhaps a better question would be:
'How many Polish people are ginger?'
There are supposed to be a lot of redheads in Ireland, and also in the Udmurtia, a small republic in Russia.
I've known German and French gingers, and a Finnish girl who may have been a bit ginger.


It was a silly question. Let's have more silly answers.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

I was just thinking of the other blonde/blue combinations we find in the world.
I prefer dark hair and dark eyes, but then you never know what hair or eyes you might happen to find.

- Osioł1976

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


You're mostly right, Tornado1984.

What about very dark hair and blue eyes?
Or blonde hair and brown eyes?

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


You're a bit weird, aren't you.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]

wpierdalaj - eat / drink (an order, not a particularly polite one)

Genealogy / Do Polish people have big noses? [450]

Does anyone have an standard technique for nose measurement?
Perhaps we could all post our nose sizes here and collate all the data for statistical analysis.

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

Is this a pie or a meringue?

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

I shall briefly turn the question around.
What do Polish people think of the way English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, American, Australian, Jamaican people learning Polish sound?

I sound quite good actually.
Very slow, but good.
Although actually, probably not.


Bonnie lass.

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]


A contradiction.
Anyone who talks has some sort of accent.

I think that Polish ways of speaking English don't sound bad. It can sound quite nice.

From an English (you know - like we speak in England) perspective:
Ways of pronouncing the English 'o' sound (as you might find in hotel)
sometimes it is rendered as the monopthong as it is pronounced in Polish,
sometimes, more like the American version - like you might spell in Polish as 'oł',
but the one I don't like is where it is pronounced with a kind of 'e' (as in 'shed) sound - like 'eł'. This one is also common with Russians speaking English.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


Enlighten us please.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]

A workmate recently picked up the word pizda.
He has fallen in love with this word.
He now has trouble ordering round, cheesy topping covered bready products without swearing in Polish.
This is strange because he never showed any interest in anything foreign before.


Let's hazard a guess at some presence in Slovenian too.
Any more?

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


A word seeking world domination?

My favourite rude polish word of the moment is zjebany.
Or is it two words? - z jebany.
I don't know. I just like the sound of it.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]

RUDE WORD ALERT

Kurwa is also found in Hungarian, where I believe it is a much ruder word.
So as not to upset the nice young Hungarian lady at work, the K-word has been banned.

W kurczaka jebanego!

Will any chickens get hurt in this sentence?

Genealogy / Popular Polish First Names? [152]


after a while you might just want to say shhhh! (or is that szszszszsz!)


I fink/tink vat's/dat's true in many languages.

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


What do you mean conquered?
The Greeks didn't stray far from the Mediterranean or the Middle East.
The Romans didn't even get through Germany.
etc.

Genealogy / Popular Polish First Names? [152]


I realise you didn't mean this, but it doesn't happen in all languages.


There are the names people use to address us.
When we're not listening, some people might use other names.

The main point I was making was that there are many different forms of the same name in Polish, that can be used for addressing the same individual. English can't match that huge variety of different forms. That is without even mentioning grammatical stuff.

Genealogy / Popular Polish First Names? [152]


We have no chance of matching the huge number of names every Polish individual can clock up.
I mean, when even personal names change grammatical case - you win!
I have three different lengths of name, according to how many syllables the speaker can be bothered to say.
My mate Dave is only ever called Dave. By everyone.
What people call me behind my back is their issue, not mine!

Life / Poles are not racist [873]

My Polish flatmate moved to ---- from Slough (where different communities seem much more ghettoised).
He did seem a little suprised at how varied are the origins of those I call my friends.
I think he expected everywhere in the UK to be like where he lived in Slough.
It is unfortunate that many Poles in the UK only see the more unpleasant side of mixed-ethnicity Britain.

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


Amongst my friends are a couple of Caribbean origin who live over the road, a man whose parents came from Mauritius, a girl have Pakistani, half English... If it hadn't been for the sins of the past in the British Empire, these people would not be here. It is the modern world and post-racial thinking that allows people like this to be my friends. British colonialism and slavery were things of the past. This country has passed that stage. We are all products of the past, but we live in the present and look to the future. Race, I hope, will have no place in the future.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


kurde?

or

kurczak (Chicken, as in 'Oh sugar!')

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

I don't really care.


Freudian slip? What Freudian slip?

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

The rudest person on this page isn't a Polish person.

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


You'll be getting the idea now, of just how high my standards of rudeness are.

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

I've only met nice Polish women who weren't rude to me.
Perhaps I've not been trying hard enough.
Polishgirltx, you for one, aren't being rude enough!

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


Perhaps I should start a new thread.
I am an English male looking for a Polish girl to be rude to me.