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mafketis   
2 Apr 2021
Life / Do you know this Polish male model ? [18]

doesn't look Polish to me

Me either... I wouldn't be surprised to see someone like him who's Polish... but it's not a stereotypically Polish face at all.
mafketis   
2 Apr 2021
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Dumny jak paw

Already exists in Polish

youtu.be/u-rcLhgKU18

at 0:52 (chorus)

Wielki mały człowiek
Zalękniony tak i dumny jak paw
Wielki mały człowiek
Prorok lepszych dni niepewnych spraw
W opiece swej
Dobry Boże ty go miej

loose sloppy translation:
The great little man,
So afraid and proud as a peacock
The great little man,
A prophet of better days of uncertain things / uncertainty
In Your care,
May you keep him God)
mafketis   
2 Apr 2021
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Grać drugie skrzypce.

Bessie Smith (accompanied by Louis Armstrong) put it best:

Let me tell you daddy, momma ain't gonna sit here and grieve
Pack up your stuff and get ready to leave
I've stood your foolishness long enough
So now I'm gonna call your bluff
Oh, I'm gonna call your hand
So, now daddy here's my plan

I ain't gonna play no second fiddle 'cause
I'm used to playin' lead...

youtu.be/HTh3ZCO0NnY
mafketis   
31 Mar 2021
Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

Poles have this strange tendency to cutify almost everything

Diminutives in Polish (and other Slavic languages) serve a number of purposes, mostly centering around making language more emotional and/or intimate.

They can indicate affection (for the item or a person associated with it) politeness, dismissal or other emotions.

Samochodzik stresses the enjoyment of driving in a way that plain old samochód or car doesn't.

The emotionally stunted may find the intersection of emotion and language to be baffling and unnecessary....
mafketis   
31 Mar 2021
Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

they are hard to follow in Polish

How much education do you have in Polish? Just being a native speaker isn't enough if you want to work in a field that depends on knowing the language, you have to cultivate it.

and sz ś cz ć duplications

Those aren't 'duplications'... sz and ś represent separate phonemes

wieś (village)
wiesz (you know)

sound different to native speakers of Polish (and mostly sound the same to non-native speakers).
mafketis   
30 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

Later I have never had it.

Weird.... get some Irish (real Irish not phony Polish-Irish) or Danish salted butter (or from the Azores if you're lucky).

Why isn't Polish butter better? I mean it's better than it used to be... but... hmmmm
mafketis   
30 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

We'd never boil our enemies!

You lose so many nutrients that way... roasting is clearly the better option.

the combination of damp and mild temperatures

Sunny sea air is the greatest substance on the planet...
mafketis   
30 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

I would argue that the soil along the Irish coastline is even better than Portugal.

Probably true, but it's also probably true that the Azores gets more sunshine than Ireland (being at the same latitude as southern mainland Portugal).

The temperament of cows depends a lot on the breed. Holsteins seem to be very laid back.... the cows my rancher cousin had were of the scrub variety and standoffish or downright ornery.
mafketis   
30 Mar 2021
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Interesting: If you put "20 Years of the Euro: Winners and Losers" into google you'll find a pdf with that same title.

The Euro has been bery bery good to Germany...

"Germany has gained by far the most from the introduction of the euro; almost € 1.9 trillion between 1999 and 2017. This amounts to around € 23,000 per inhabitant. Otherwise, only the Netherlands has gained substantial benefits from the introducing the euro" p. 1

"In the first few years after its introduction, Greece gained hugely from the euro but since 2011 has suffered enormous losses. Over the whole period, the balance of € 2 billion or € 190 per inhabitant, is only just positive" p. 1

"the euro has resulted in a drop in prosperity: € 3.6 trillion in France and as much as € 4.3 trillion in Italy. In France, this amounts to € 56,000 per capita and in Italy € 74,000."

The document is from Feb 2019 and I doubt if the last year helped much....

Why is maintaining this pseudo-currency good for any country but Germany (and to a lesser extent - the Netherlands)?
mafketis   
29 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

I'd like to taste that Portuguese stuff

You'll be sure to tell me "Obrigada!"

free range cows eating grass (flavored by the sea air)...

youtube.com/watch?v=Yu5MdNfCMh4

youtube.com/watch?v=Eqmba-M0Cxw
mafketis   
29 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

Irish is the best butter in the world bar none :)

At most second.... once Biedronka had Portuguese butter from the Azores.... and it was soooooooo goood I kept being tempted to eat it on its own... I keep looking for it.

IME I'd tie Irish and Danish butter after that.

Polish butter... it's actually better now... I remember in the early 90s you couldn't even find butter it was all margarine..

I'm not sure if Poland's always been weak on dairy products or if communism wrecked it the way it wrecks everything else. In a lot of ways dairy production for anything but sour milk products (or fresh twaróg that was good as was fresh cream when you could find it) is still in its infancy.

IME milk in the Czech republic is worse.
mafketis   
23 Mar 2021
News / Famous Polish writer prosecuted for free speech [71]

try a sledgehammer; maybe, just maybe, you can penetrate his impenetrable CZACHA

Is that incitement to violence? Cause.... it kind of seems like incitement to violence....

Boss Hogg clown

More like General Lee....

lee

The only real surprise is that he went to Poland at all

I'm still here (unlike you) because I've chosen to live here (unlike you).

But what can you do? Pol-ams gonna Pol-am....
mafketis   
23 Mar 2021
News / Famous Polish writer prosecuted for free speech [71]

We Poles

You're not Polish...

an expectation of decorum for the benefit of social cohesion

Have you ever been to Poland? Can you follow Polish language media? ..... social cohesion.... ha ha h ah aha ha, good one!
mafketis   
21 Mar 2021
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

On a point of principal?

Basically, there's enough surveillance going on now, no need to contribute. And the companies that do that should not be rewarded.
mafketis   
20 Mar 2021
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

we still have contact with the Choctaw

Halito!

There's a non-trivial chance (70 or so per cent) that I have some Choctaw ancestry (on my father's side so it doesn't count).

Lots of Americans have family lore about American Indian ancestry and most of it is... not true. But my father did have some of the look (including jet black hair and he had a fair resemblance to a famous leader) and he came from an area where there were Choctaw (and he knew a bunch of Choctaw lore supposedly from his grandmother). My mother used to occasionally pester me about joining the tribe but they only do descent matrilineally so I never bothered.

I would be tempted to do a dna test but I don't want that info shared with governments....

I assume this means I would be given a hero's welcome in Ireland and given the run of the place....
mafketis   
20 Mar 2021
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

A few days late, but here's a recipe for Irish Stew from an American historical cooking channel. The recipe comes from an Irish language cookbook from 1900...

He talks a lot about Irish history and the famine so there will be lots of things for Atch to complain about, too!

youtube.com/watch?v=S8KpFs1CHgw
mafketis   
16 Mar 2021
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

Doesn't look like Polish to me..... I'm not sure if it looks much like modern Slovak either....

My guess is some kind of non-standard Slovak. You definitely need a Slovak specialist for it.

You might contact these folks.

korpus.sk/contact.html
mafketis   
15 Mar 2021
Language / rzeczownik (noun) // Right, Recht? [8]

But the Polsh rzecz seems to be of another root.

I wonder if it has any cognates in the Germanic languages....

loaf and chleb are apparently cognates so.... who knows?
mafketis   
15 Mar 2021
Language / rzeczownik (noun) // Right, Recht? [8]

I doubt it... I'm not an etymologist but off the top of my head rzecz (thing) is probably related to a slavic root meaning speech or word (as in rzecznik - spokesperson) or rzec (say [archaic])

that seems to be born out here

pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/rzec#pl

the 'related expressions has a link to..

pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/rzec#pl
mafketis   
14 Mar 2021
Food / Request for cake or pastry recipe for an elderly Polish lady [20]

I know, the cups business is ridiculous isn't it?

A cup in American cooking is the volume of 8 oz of water.

Somewhere in my kitchen I have an American measuring set that I used to use (from teaspoon to cup). I'm usually not really a measuring kind of cook though I make a pretense when I try a recipe for the first time.

cup
mafketis   
13 Mar 2021
Food / Request for cake or pastry recipe for an elderly Polish lady [20]

(with raisins, for example) :)

Dear Polish people,

Raisins are not a magic ingredient that makes any dessert wonderful.

Sincerely,
Mafketis

p.s. Please, stop putting raisins in ice cream! What is wrong with you people!?
mafketis   
9 Mar 2021
Love / She's muslim and I am christian, will it ever work? Has anyone had similar experiences [63]

That site's fairly full on.

from wikipedia

"the most popular Salafi website in the Arab-speaking world"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IslamQA.info

and

"By the 21st century, Salafi teachings and ideas have become mainstream that many modern Muslims, even those who do not self-identify as Salafi, have adopted various aspects of Salafism"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement

It's not archaic at all, this is 21st century extremely modern Islam. Wishing that weren't the case doesn't change the fact....
mafketis   
9 Mar 2021
Love / She's muslim and I am christian, will it ever work? Has anyone had similar experiences [63]

She wants to get married with the civil ritual

Might not be that easy....

islamhelpline.net/answer/3552/a-friend-of-mine-a-muslim-is-due-to-get-married-to-a-non-muslim-they-are-going-to-have-a-wedding-registration-i-am-aware-that-according-to-our-religion-this-wedding-will-not-be-valid

islamqa.info/en/answers/113867/ruling-on-civil-marriage