Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


I'm not a mod and if you can't see his posts then I presumed it was because you had blocked him which all PF members have the option to do.


I have no idea what you are talking about.


I'm not psychic.

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


Yep. If you don't use it you lose it. Many students once they've left school, unless they're working in the tourism sector maybe, or studying at University to teach English, might hardly ever encounter English speakers on a regular basis.

I spent a year working in France many moons ago and was fluent but now I would definitely struggle in conversation. Last time I was in France I picked up a newspaper and was happy to find I could still read French pretty well :)


That's interesting. Nice to think my French might be lying dormant somewhere.


Might be due to variations in dialect or the speed with which people speak. Not everyone speaks clearly and depending where some people are from, I have a job to understand them!

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


I'm not surprised. I think Pawian overestimates how widely English is spoken in Poland. And how well it's spoken. Those under 25 will know some but when I go to Poland I inevitably end up speaking Polish as even talking to younger Poles in English often results in blank stares.


Exactly.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


You have blocked his posts.


Could be anything as you tend to put weird things together.

If I had to guess it would be beetroot, ogórki, bread, sausage, tomatoes, surówka or possibly eggs.

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


That's ridiculous.

None of my Polish friends are elderly. Most are in their mid forties and learned Russian or German at school. In the early to mid nineties, English language wasn't widely taught, at least outside big cities. The children of my friends were taught English in Poland which helped when they came to the UK.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I really don't know where you're going with this. In the PRL Poles had to figure out solutions to problems or they would have had nothing. A sort of survival mechanism if you like. Although I also think it's a way of life and part of Polish culture. What I've said doesn't really cover why though.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Acquiring a lot of money?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Thanks maf, now I know where's he's coming from. I've heard examples of this many times before especially , as you say, under communism. It's a way of beating the system.


Scheming possibly.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


It can be translated in many ways depending on what one wants to say. Don't know the slang meaning. Anything to do with unity?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Because I was talking about the end result. She was removed from the village. Never really thought about it to be honest.


Thanks for the explanation.


I really don't have much idea about this one...

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


On a cart.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


OK, she was ejected from the village and subjected to humiliation from the villagers. The origins lie in humiliation or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


No idea I'm afraid.


Connected? Linked together?

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


Haha. I've never heard that substitution from Poles but then most of the Poles I know didn't learn English until they came to the UK or they'd had a crash course prior to coming here.

That substitution is sometimes used by English people, due to laziness I think.


This is true. Forgot about that.

Life / Polish Music. [303]

I really like this tune:

L.U.C. & Rebel Babel Film Orchestra ft. Kayah, Laboratorium Pieśni - Jesień - Tańcuj - Chłopi



and this

Kwiat Jabłoni ft. Ralph Kaminski - "Wodymidaj"

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


Not everyone can. I have never forgotten my Polish friend telling me that her daughter came in turd place for a race in her school sports day.........

My problem when I first started learning Polish was rolling the letter 'r'. That sound doesn't exist in English language just as 'th' doesn't in Polish. Took me a long time to learn how to do it. Found it easier to roll the 'r' if it was in the middle of a word rather than at the start. 'Kurwa' often became part of my vocabulary ;)

Life / Don't Forget: Tomorrow, March 8 is Women's Day in Poland! [140]


Thank you! :)

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


One of them has 'th' in, many Poles struggle to pronounce this letter combination.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


To expose someone to financial loss or large expenses?


To kick someone out of somewhere?

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]

Try these:

Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk

Red lorry, yellow lorry.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I would guess at two sides to every story.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


The actual words were "Majerkiewicz denies murder and manslaughter", so I've presumed he pleaded not guilty. It's from your Guardian link.

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Exactly. I think he's clutching at straws to be honest.


Blimey, even more dismembered bodies :( although not sure if it's one person or more after reading the article.

I hope identification is possible because although it's awful, those people will be missed and at least families will get answers.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


A specific Maciej or is the name used randomly?


Is it the definition of an a$$licker? Someone that will suck up to somebody?


I can think of a couple of posters that might apply to......

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


He was sentenced to life imprisonment:

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clm3yz1094mo


It is a particularly grisly case. He's pleaded not guilty to both murder and manslaughter.

Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]


I sometimes have the opposite problem. I log out but then find I'm still logged in when I come back to the site later. When it first happened I thought I'd just forgotten to log out, but I hadn't. Bizarre.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I would be interested to know how you would translate it.


Someone easily influenced and always changing their mind/beliefs on things?

History / Lech Walesa - Happy Birthday! [54]


I've literally just finished reading it about 15 minutes ago! Great letter. Says it all.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


To shaft somebody in the worst possible way?

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [972]

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Unfulfilled promises a candidate makes to voters. Various populist ways of gaining support.

In 19th century Poland picnics by candidates for deputies in parliament took place with free food and drink ( vodka and sausages ). These were organised in order to gain support of the masses.