News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

Who are you to judge such matter, Ironside?
Are you Christi Incarnate?? "Hate the sin, not the sinner!"

Translate THAT into Polish, what don't you. Sure you even understand it in English?:-)

Christianity teaches love and forgiveness for all earthly transgressions. I'm Jewish and know more about Christian teaching that you do. Where did the Catholics get it from in the first place?

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

Not a humbug, paw, it's a "hanba", more to the point, "wstyd" (a disgrace)!

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

Raw deal for some, pal.
One needn't be gay to be most dismayed by Duda's backward decision.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

Fancy words, paw, too fancy for me.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

Not his best picture either.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

Promises, promises:-)

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

Poland, though an arch-Catholic country, is curiously behind other Catholic nations in this respect!
I'm thinking here of Spain:-)

Work / Is starting a language school doable in Poland [9]

As far as I've read, Poland has a surfeit of language schools, not even talking here about the Berlitz variety.
What former students who are now studying in New York tell me, most are fly-by-night holes in the wall, not worth their salt.

I agree that you really should scope out the area first, before deciding to open such a school. Decide too which languages. If it's English....GOOD LUCK!! You'll likely be drowning in competitors, probably many from the UK, now that Brexit is a reality:-)

Perhaps a school offering Asian or other "exotic" languages might have a chance to succeed, and a pretty good one, I'd wager.

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]

..whereas technically they're "rYbaki", although crustaceons rather than fish:-)

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

Poland probably won't even be affected by the Brexit, save perhaps for Polish nationals residing permanently in the UK or those who have become UK citizens.

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [241]

Only the late Queen Mum:-)

News / First Coronavirus case in Poland? [30]

Only that there is a tendency to demonize a group of people as a convenient target without bothering to scope out all the relevant evidence to support such a claim.

As you might recall, Jews were accused by the Nazis, among others, for bringing the Plague aka typhoid, to Germany....in order to "infect" the Aryan Race!

That turned out to be a lie, filthy conditions in many of the ghettoes and shtetl notwithstanding.

China is known for questionable hygienic practices, granted. Nonetheless, does that mean that all Chinese are filthy?

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [241]

Spot on, Milo!

We do find common ground on occasion, don't we.

News / First Coronavirus case in Poland? [30]

I've read though that a virus can "travel" from one site and then be picked up by someone, not necessarily
from the "source area", but who happened to be there by sheer coincidence, maybe a tourist....and not
a Chinaman either:-)

I'm not a scientist either and so what I'm saying is naturally speculation on my part.

News / First Coronavirus case in Poland? [30]

China though is not the root of the problem.
Historically, they have long been known for tricky and slipshod sanitary practices, they'd be the first to admit it!

News / First Coronavirus case in Poland? [30]

Prejudice is an even more pernicious malady, guys. At least for Coronavirus, there's a cure....if you catch it in time!

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [241]

My son rightly pointed out that I came of age in a slightly better economy than he. As such, I did what most self-respecting fathers would have done in my position - I used some of my connections where I worked to cut a deal and have the realtor give Steven a slight "break" on his first year's rent. The rest, I reminded him, was up to him. But if ever he needed some honest advice, I would always be there. You see, this stuff goes on all the time, only people normally don't talk about it. Anyway, I'm proud I was able to help. At least it gave the boy a feeling of independence, right?

Worked like a charm:-)

Motto here is that there is often a cover story to the erstwhile "I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps!", Horatio Alger routine.

Frequently, as George Jefferson from the now long defunct TV series would have said, Thing is, somebody done give 'em the boots and the straps!" lol

Everybody's situation is different.

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [241]

Again, if parents are ready, willing, and financially able to send their kids to school, a "good" college like one of the Ivies, who am I to stand in moral judgement?

On the other hand, as a father, I'll be damned if I'd spoon feed my boy after he'd legally old enough to provide for himself proper! Not that I haven't helped when and where I could. However, Steven soon learned neither to accept nor to expect "handouts" from dear ol' dad!

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [241]

I think that parents who have the means to help their children are morally (although NOT legally!!) obligated to do so! Any father who'd allow his son to suffer in a lousy economy, as if things were exactly as they were during the Great Depression, ought to have his parenting license revoked....as soon as he gets one:-) After that, have his head examined.

However, surely all young men who are over the age of 25 for certain, should make every attempt possible within the limits of the law, to seek adequate domicile for themselves, and of course, secure a bare minimum of employment.

This is though more the Anglo-Saxon way. Countries such as Italy, Greece, and Spain have traditionally encouraged their children both sons as well as daughters, to live at home and even raise their families where they themselves were born, should they be lucky or privileged to do so.

Neither way is ideologically right or wrong. Yet times change and parents must accept that some things cannot, indeed should not, be as they once were. There was plenty about the "good old days" which wasn't good.

Genealogy / Online access to public / parish records search in Poland? [20]

I see.

Genealogy / Online access to public / parish records search in Poland? [20]

Do perhaps mean parish records?

Genealogy / Families from Poland - finding out their names prior to immigration? [6]

Maybe a local land registry would have recorded those names.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Yup, sounds just like the US.

Life / Polish films... where to find them? [51]

I'm currently watching a recent Polish movie, "Zimowa Wojna". Anyone familiar with it?
It comes with Polish subtitles and so it's ideal for learning:-)

Miswrote the title! It was actually "Zimna Wojna" and it was made by Anton Pawlikowski.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

@Rich, you're welcome!

@Exx217, as a Polish native speaker presumably, you probably wouldn't have difficulty with something with which you grew up and to which you were exposed since grade school:-)

As a foreigner from a bilingual German-English background, the issue of aspect is one upon which I often still must reflect when speaking, more so though, when writing.

Usually, I get it within a matter of seconds. Other times, it may take a little longer.
For instance, "brac" vs. "wziac udzial" looks relatively straightforward, however, when I read a Polish text from a responsible journal, say, "Wprost", I figure the article is written perfectly, and yet I sometimes think I've learned the correct pattern, only to be corrected by Polish acquaintances. When I ponder the question of such usage, the apparent subtlety is about as fine as when I've explained English tenses even to advanced Polish speakers!

Usually, their word choice is nearly perfect, their accent so-so, but their use of simple vs. continuous tenses, a disaster.

It's all a matter of thinking in the language, really.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

A Pole wouldn't have to ask, Rich. After all, it's their native tongue!!
Would you go to a foreign country to ask foreigners about English tenses??

Rich,
As I make my living as, among other things, a Polish-English, Polish-German translator, I charge a hefty fee to my clients and get a nice chunk in return:-) Sorry to shock you.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

For the same reason a Pole who's serious about their English would want to better know how to use tenses or anything else related to correct usage a la Strunk & White, that's why?

I sometimes wonder, Rich, whether you are serious about the questions you ask, questions with such obvious answers:-)
If you're not going to say it right, might as well not say it at all. Or at least with the proviso that the speaker is practicing whichever foreign language they happen to be speaking, and is therefore grateful for any (polite!) correction they can get.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

Back to the thread topic question, I guess what I still find difficult is knowing what is considered perfective or completed action to a Polish native speaker and what isn't! While in general, I finally think after all these years that I have it right, mistakes, even basic ones, do crop up in both my writing as well as my speaking from time to time. Frequently, I find myself thinking in Polish, although on other occasions, I don't.

Although nobody's ever said that they can't understand what I've written, I realize it could be said differently, that is, better.

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

Merely different, Rich, surely though neither better nor worse.
Every language has its own spin on life. That's what makes language learning both practical, not to mention, so endlessly fascinating!

In the above instances, those two words I gave as examples, German is oodles more compact than English, hands down:-)

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

Quite the contrary I'd say, Rich!

In German, "Gemuetlichkeit" needs ZERO explanation or addenda; one word speaks nicely for itself.
Try it yourself. "A feeling of cozy familiarity, often in a relaxed setting within the warm, bosom company of lifelong friends with whom you can just be yourself...." YUCCCHHHHH, what a mouthful:-)

Or try "Feierabend". In English, "quitting time". And yet, it's much more than that in the German. The English doesn't do it justice. It really means, almost literally "celebratory evening.....[well deserved after having busted your hump from nine 'till five!!]"

Nope, just can't swallow your arguments there, buddy.