Language / Family members in Polish [8]


I know people (of north-eastern Mazovia) who still know who świekra is. I don't and have never heard or used it in my family. My grandma (south-eastern Mazovia) used: wujna (wujenka), stryj (stryjek), stryjna (stryjenka). I have never used such forms.

Synowiec was used in Pan Tadeusz:
Szabel nam nie zabraknie, szlachta na koń wsiędzie,
Ja z synowcem na czele, i? - jakoś to będzie!

Some of those names just make me smile.

Travel / Architecture style in Poland [24]


Why? Both sides of the town were Austrian, though the western side since the Middle Ages, whereas the eastern side since 1772.

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]


Are you sure it is a place's name? Looks like a surname to me.


Looks like religion and name rather than a name only.

Classifieds / Help needed: Proofreading Polish Song [13]

This is my favorite song of theirs. Kora wrote the lyrics in the May of a year where this month was exceptionally cold, hence the title "Cold May".

Classifieds / Help needed: Proofreading Polish Song [13]


But he said 'we śnie' and not 'ale we śnie'. So I'm promoting 'w moim śnie'.

Just listen to Maanam - they use a possessive adjective with 'sen'. And not once!

Classifieds / Help needed: Proofreading Polish Song [13]


I would still underline this is his dream:
w moim śnie, w moim śnie

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


A very refined idiom, I'd say, and one which praises accomplishments in an intelligent and friendly way. This said, having read Lenka's opinion:


I should add that pride doesn't go well with slavery (or does it)?

Actually, there is a Polish idiom describing a somewhat reverse situation to that shown in Maf's idiom.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

What's the point in googling the answer? Wouldn't it be more fun if participants tried to guess the meaning with no assistance from Uncle google?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


I said that before and he said "no". He said:


One is preparing oneself for an action? Has decided to take a task on?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


Experience the consequences of one's own actions?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Four mentions of LGBT in one short post on Polish politics! Sounds as if the LGBT issue were a central question of it.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

The problem is they demand more and more now and their excuse for that is that government-independent media act "against the interests of Poland", I shall remind you that the excuse of the commie folk at the time was that Radio Free Europe broadcasting from Munich acted "in the interest of American imperialists". Sounds familiar?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Yes, I remember. Your four-point development plan in which we are in Phase One right now. Let is hope things don't go beyond it ...

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Not correct. I would be equally furious if PO or any other party had plans to curb government-independent media because they don't like them or because they are not objective (in their opinion) or because in their opinion they act against the interests of Poland.

Just listen more attentively to yourself. In fact, you don't like certain media because they are against your views. Then you put forward all excuses for wiping them out from the countryside with the most prominent one of them being that they are "against the interests of Poland". This is one of the most favorite excuses of all the loonies or all the autocrats or all the dictators: they don't like government-independemt media because - as they say - those media act against the interests of the nation which translates directly they are against the interests of the loonies who wish to have a free hand in doing things and remain out of all scrutiny.

In the first months of the PiS rule I was even in favour of TVP taking on its new emploie since they presented a point of view different from the existing and more or less unanimous voice that had been heard until then. But in the next step, TVP has gradually gone mad broadcasting the kind of commie-style propaganda which often is worse than the one heard in the Gierek times. And you are lucky, young man, not to have experienced this kind of reality of the media that existed in those times and that you are happy to promote now.

This, in short, is why I like Georgette acting the way she does here in Poland even if I am well aware that she stands for defending American interests first.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Yes, and that is clear to everyone except PiS and Konfedercja. Long live Georgette!

Food / Alcohol Delivery app in Poland [14]


I meant postal stamps, you liberal idiot!

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Georgette, as we familiarly call her here, had been Donald's friend for many years before he became US president, I am told.


Is there any chance for Biden as a US president to leave Ms. Mosbacher in her post?


Ms Mosbacher stands firmly in defence of media independent of government control which can be subjected to a ferocious, Hun-like attack on them from the ruling party in Poland

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Indeed. Who would have imagined in the 1930s the horrors of the WW II, of the Holocaust and of the Gulags?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Not really. If we think of Gazeta Wyborcza, that's true in the sense that the so-called "working masses" in Poland do not read it. But when it comes to the FACT newspaper, it is totally wrong. I am often truly amazed to see how many people read this paper on a bus or on the train. That's a kind of shocking observation for me as I almost never get even a glimpse through it. Many of the readers who do it regularly would be PiS folk.

These people would most probably not reach out for a news bulletin on TV as they mostly prefer watching a film or two in the evening. In this respect, the control over titles such as FAKT does matter a lot and Ms Mosbacher (or Georgette as Maf likes to call her) does a very good job warning PiS that the US will do its best to prevent PiS from an assault on those media in Poland which are still not under their control.

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]

The latest proposal in Poland by a certain group on FB has been to hand over the Małopolskie and Podkarpackie voivodships to Ukraine on the grounds that around 70% of people in those areas cast their vote for Duda.

- "We don't need such people in this country", was claimed in their FB appeal.

News / The Political Circus of Poland [309]


Don't forget Paw is from Kraków, same as Duda, so he is pretty likely to hear informal news and gossip circulated about the town which are based on what Agata's been blabbing in confidence to her close friends.


Don't forget Duda's own views being very close to JK's. I wouldn't expect miracles in Ballpen's demeanor.


This piece is pure fantasy.

Food / Alcohol Delivery app in Poland [14]

Buy and collect stamps rather than beer. It's going to do more good to your health than beer.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


'Mignon' means 'cute' here. I would have never thought the Americans could send such a cute lady as their ambassador to Poland.

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]


You DID come back, so you may babble whatever you want on Poland now.
[Btw, I've always admired your decision to come back as it was obviously NOT an easy one]

Stick to the topic of the thread please

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Son prénom 'Georgette' est si mignon qu'elle ne devrait rester que pour cette raison.


This in particular is again nasty to the extreme.

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]


Except for playing the German card which for fun :-)

Seriously, no political party in Poland is as crazy as claiming back any of former Poland's borderlands in the east. Not even Konfederacja, I should think.


So let's sum it up. No LGBT in Poland, all commies sent to the moon on board of a Tesla machine, immigrants only in Merkel's garden, the 1921 Riga line as an eastern border, the 1945 Oder-Neise line as a western border ... did I miss something?


So now they should stay where they are and unless they are back again stop shouting at us how we should organize our life in this country.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]



That's the trick. Timing is essential. Everyone who thinks they can make money betting on something when that something is obvious to everyone end up as losers.


That was a hell lot sarcastic, wasn't it?

Polonia / Marxist-lead BLM Revolutionaries' Assault on Polish Landmarks [11]


This is a disease, Dolno. Anti-semites will talk talk talk about Jews incessantly. Rather than going to a psychiatrist, they choose to find someone to talk talk talk their to their crap to him.

But be careful, Dolno. Your hero Dirk digger is not only anti-Muslim and anti-gay, but anti-semitic as well.

History / Poland is great Mother of all Slavs from Baltic to Balkan [211]

Yes, we should all work on ideas aimed at transforming BB's body into an ideal model reflecting all the Sarmatian beauty.

History / Poland is great Mother of all Slavs from Baltic to Balkan [211]


Will it ever be feasible for him to change his body for the better?