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Posts by gumishu  

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gumishu   
15 Oct 2023
News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

That way PIS can enact any legislation they like on the basis that 'the people don't want referendums

nomsense :P

Love those Polish metaphors...

these are not Polish metaphores: the article is on a German website (and the passage is nonsense - completely idiotic analogy demonizing PiS)
gumishu   
15 Oct 2023
News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

the NYT mentioned it on the first page of the International Section

NYT had written nonsensical garbage about Poland in the past so it's no surprise

do you believe a biased Amercian soruce or a American source on the ground in Poland in the form of mafketis
gumishu   
14 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Their idol: Orwell.

Orwell was not supporting communism - on the contrary (his works were a warning against totalitarianism and communism in particular)
gumishu   
23 Sep 2023
News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [549]

@pawian
you made me check Gieremek's bio and it looks like: yeah, he was Jewish :P - and he worked in France between 1960-65 - wonder why he came back?

Edit: and he was a communist apparatchik in the 50's
gumishu   
17 Sep 2023
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [632]

if one of our neighbours blocked our export.

Poland is not blocking Ukrainian exports - the government is more than happy to provide transit for Ukrainian produce if it is not sold in Poland
gumishu   
16 Sep 2023
News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [549]

I doubt PIS will prosecute their own men.

this article in Polish is especially for pawian (it's from okopress but pawian probably doesn't even know what okopress stands for) -
oko.press/afera-wizowa-informacje-i-manipulacje-o-masowym-naplywie-migrantow-sprawdzamy-fakty-i-liczby
gumishu   
15 Sep 2023
Life / Why is women-hatred and stereotyping so popular in Poland? [181]

Men are not allowed to compete with women in chess.

I read about Judith Polgar (a Hungarian female chess player) who won against top male players and was ranked 8th in the general chess world ranking
gumishu   
28 Aug 2023
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [441]

raped by her uncle who was refused an abortion.

I haven't followed the news very closely but from what I can gather the girl was granted an abortion a couple days later in Warsaw
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [124]

because Poles in Germany were not Germans but foreign implants

Silesians in Opole region, Masurians in East Prussia were not foreing implants - their ancestors lived in their respective areas for centuries and they retained their language (one can argue if it was actually Polish in case of Silesians) in spite of the pressure for germanization since at least the middle of 18th century
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
Life / Gas / Benzyna prices in Poland [29]

Your 95 should also have 5% biofuel like ours.

I read an article about it just now and it never said 'should have' there, just 'can have' and as far as I know production of fuel grade ethanol is more expensive than buying crude oil from overseas (at the moment)
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]

the difference is count vs non-count?

only it isn't? I say "potrzebuję komputera" (genetive) and not "potrzebuję komputer" (like "widzę komputer" with computer in accusative) (komputer is countable as opposed to "czas" or "spokój")

co chcesz is ungrammatical coloquialism, that's all
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
Life / Gas / Benzyna prices in Poland [29]

Governments have a tendency to sell off the family silver.

in other words you don't know what you are talking about: Polska Presse was bought by Orlen like 2 years ago (not that it made a lot of sense from economic point of view)

also the PiS government is keen on buying back companies PO and company sold (bank Pekao, PKP Energetyka come to mind)
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]

potrzebuje sukienkę

"sukienkę" is the same as "torebkę" - it's accusative - which doesen't make sense since you would probably agree that "czasu" as in "potrzebuję czasu" is not accusative but genetive - which doestn't make sense unless you insist on a new case for Polish nouns that sometimes looks like the accusative and sometimes as genetive
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
Life / Gas / Benzyna prices in Poland [29]

the thing is we don't know what E10 and Super are - we are used to octane numbering here in Poland (for example 95 and 98 are 95 and 98 octane gasoline) -

the 98 octane gas costs less than 7 pln at most stations - and 95 is cheaper (the more octanes the better)
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]

I always said torebkę.

it doesn't make sense from the grammatical point of view (unless you want a new case in declination of Polish nouns : if you say: "potrzebuję torebkę" then according to Polish grammar you should also say "potrzebuję czas" instead of "potrzebuję czasu" - which I doubt you do)
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]

but which in practice are often found with the accusative and potrzebować is one of those (along with używać).

when I was a kid hardly anybody was saying "potrzebuję torebkę" (instead of "torebki")
gumishu   
15 Aug 2023
Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]

There is also something called noun cases which change the ending of the nouns and their accompanying adjectives depending

in other words Duolingo is sh** at teaching people Polish - also: unless a learner of Polish is living or going to live in Poland learning the language is pretty useless