Language / Foreigners speaking Polish - examples. [71]


That's a grammar term to describe the way English is used in most of the world.

About pronunciation, there's RP however nowadays people tend to refer to modified RP.


Not that region; Lerpool has a distinct catch to the vowel sound in those words, largely through influence from Ireland and Wales.

In most of the U.K. (including RP speakers) the vowel sound in pub and ugly are the same.

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What do you understand by that term?

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Yuk.

The amount of sugar in the main brands of tougher in PL is even worse than the crushed beetles.

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Unless. And he and his brother will have a chance to plead innocence or guilt very soon.


It's a European Arrest Warrant so pretty well automatic. Romania have said though that his forthcoming trial there takes precedence. Should he be acquitted of that, he'll be arrested immediately and brought back to his home country.

This thread isn't just about the creep Tate thought.

He's a trivial figure.

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What? You mean memetics as in Susan Blackwell?

Don't you believe in Polish animal welfare?

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Not much use to him when he's sentenced to decades in jail. And of course the compensation to his victims may well leave him penniless.

The prosecutors have recently updated his charges to far more serious ones. It looks like his move to Romania backfired on him.

A toxic individual.

It's also significant that his arrest warrant in England was issued by a particular constabulary; too complicated and in any case off-topic to explain the significance.

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The age of chivalry is cold in its grave.

I'll not pretend to speak for women, either all women or some. I'd guess though that given a choice of coming second to men or being themselves, the latter is more appealing.

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The whole "courtly love" thing seems so dated.


Made.

He isn't now, being on bail for Human Trafficking.

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Yes he is a pimp and has admitted it.

He even ran an online course that he described as a "Pimpin' Hoes Degree".

Any young man (or more usually teenage boy in the case of his followers) who sees him as any sort of role model ought to take a damn good look at himself.

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A slight correction to this. Romania says he has to face trial for the current Human Trafficking charges there before he is extradited to the U.K.. Given that there's no statute of limitations in England in cases of sexual offences, he could end up going straight from a long jail sentence in Romania to being on remand before a trial on the islands.


It often takes much longer, especially in complex cases.


Under house arrest.

The house arrest has been suspended however he is still unable to leave Romania before his upcoming trial.

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He is currently on bail in Romania and unable to leave the country. He is also (as of a few days ago) subject to an arrest warrant from the U.K. where he will be extradited. Romania have said they will not oppose the extradition.


There were also cases of online harassment and attempts at legal harassment of their victims. They didn't work as the latest warrant shows.


What does that even mean?

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That's the ones you know.

People in cities do t need such things at all.

One good thing about Poland is that thee are so few of them.

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Anyone who idolises (and some of them idolise) that seedy rapist Andrew Tate just comes across as weak, needy and wishing they were as thuggish as their hero. Same with that grifter Peterson, basically Ayn Rand with bad skin.

Followers always look for a leader, and who wants a relationship with a born follower?


Indeed. Life in Europe (and the thread title is about Poland) is quite different.

It would be good if there was more state childcare provided by society though. That's a hot potato in the U.K. too since paying for it privately which many sadly have to is expensive, the amount of childcare vouchers etc is limited and another way women are discriminating against is of course that thanking a career break can damage a career.

Fortunately the move to working from home (for those who ca) will hopefully make that situation easier and of course larger organisations, especially in the public sector, are finally beginn8ng to understand that men can (and should) share child care too.

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To read some of the men here, you'd think women were either like this or this with nothing in between and no other options.

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I doubt many people want that back.


And had been declining for years.

Rightly so.

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@mafketis
There's an awful lot of stereotypes in there and pretty massive generalisations.

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Was it compulsory?

No wonder it was abolished since it was so evidently unpopular,

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I'd say it's more that subset of men who are insecure and have very fragile masculinity. The idea of women being subservient to them strokes their ego. The idea of women being assertive and not actually needing their BS reminds them how weak they are.

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Cobblers.


You didn't...

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Get over yourself.

As well you know, avoidance of military service, especially during its final year, was on an industrial scale.

Tell us about your time in the army?

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Quite. Nobody can blame the 50% of society whose aspirations have traditionally been kept down from starting to stand up for themselves.


Some do. It depends on the people involved and the context.


I'm sure the world will get by nicely without your 'support'. You don't have a veto on how other people live.

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You don't always get what you want.

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True though; as many as could avoid it avoided it.

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We're supposed to beat our chests and kill woolly mammoths for dinner while women just tidy things and wait for men to get home so they can spread their legs and be fulfilled.

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quote=AntV]this idea that men in general are brutish deadbeats with a slaveholder mentality that view women as chattel is baloney[/quote]
Is there such an "idea"?

There are certainly injustices and stereotypes about gender however I don't see people thinking that.


That tends to be second generation feminism. Most of those voices are well over 60 now.

Language / Foreigners speaking Polish - examples. [71]

Between Polish and English there are similar things. Almost no Pole can get /ɔː/ or /ɜː/ anything like right and many struggle with /ŋ/ despite it being very close to ę.


There's no 'standard British' as such, and the term "Standard English" tends to refer to British/Aus/NZ grammar usage and spelling.

Your example of ugly would work better without the h; it's a short and clipped vowel in RP. I would use the same vowel as in wood.


Largely yes, however it's worth remembering that the two languages emerged and for most of their history evolved only a few hundred miles apart.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


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Far more than I need or would like.


Nor do firearms for 90% of people who use them.


Don't make incorrect assumptions. We're not all urbanites.

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For sure. With the rz sound, it's as near as damn it the same as the /ʒ/ in pleasure.


I'd pronounce it /wɜːd/, as in nurse or bird.


Thinking about it, isn't the opposite more true? Or am I just thinking of endings, since in English English, pleasure, teacher, dollar, visitor, colour, all end in schwa.

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Yeah, right....


You're right about endangering others.

I'd add that killing animals or birds for anything other than food, self defence or on compassionate grounds is not in any sense proper use.

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It isn't an American 'debating club' and in any case you can't adequately dispute it.

Recent can be 40 or 50 years when talking about national policy.


One of the majority in PL who avoided it.

You used to be able to pay a doctor to say pretty well anything. One guy I know got an exemption from his national service because he got a doctor sign a statement saying his body contained no bones or arteries.