History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]


"entities"?
If by that you mean individuals the Poland was also ruled by western entities, oh, and a northern one too.
If, however, by the word "entities" you mean that Poland was occupied by other countries then a part of it it was also ruled at one time by a western and a central European entity. And come to think about it, India having been ruled by the Brits is a Western European country, right?


Poland is as close to Croatia as it is to Greece or Italy. Actually, barring the language, I find more commonalities between Poles and Italians than with any of the former Yugoslavian countries.


I just did.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]


You obviously have no idea about the culture, ideology or the history of Eastern Europe.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


There is a saying in Polish:

Rudy to falszywy or Rude to falszywe (the second one has an added hint of malice on the part of the speaker). It means "the red haired ones are dishonest".

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


Nie przeklinaj bo ci bozia jezyk upierdoli.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


Nope. the process of "ocipiec" can be predicted or observed only post facto, but not while it is under way. No present tense has ever been observed :)

future tense:

ocipieję
ocipiejesz
ocipieje

ocipiejemy
ocipiejecie
ocipieją

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]

it very much is, althoug for some reason it sounds lighter.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]


I'm not very old but not exactly young anymore. Still, I never heard that one.
Is that a particular region of Poland where you may hear that?

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

bobo? Bobo is more like baby.


I forgot to tell you, you look fantastic today

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


should be "ochujalas" (spelling).
No direct equivalent I can think of. It means someone become equivalent of a dick, acquire properties of a dick. The word is used to say that someone lost their mind. Of course it is supremely rude but accpetable among friends depending on the context and intimacy (not nexessarilly sexual


)
Another slang expression, meaning roughly fvck yourself, to hell with you, pi.ss off, leave me alone and such.

Language / Polish sayings [237]


true

In Polish this will be:

mam do ciebie (maly) romansik or
mam do ciebie romans

(and variations of the above)


not even close to what comes to my mind but the "walking fingers" tell me it is "idzie rak nieborak, jak ugryzie bedzie znak". It means roughly "the crab is walking, when it bites there will be a mark (booboo)"

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]


It may be but I'm not sure to whom. Pollock (and pollack) is a fish. Damn fools are too stupid to even offend properly :)

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]

Another "kurwa" in action:



text:

eee Se kurwa polatalam juz.. No jak zwykle kurwa... ee nie wiem kurwa. no nie wiem tak jest kurwa zawsze zreszta zawsze no.. zawsze! czlowiek chce sobie polatac normalnie kurwa nie wiem, zeby cos tu fajnie bylo... nie no nie da sie po prostu kurwa zawsze cos zawsze cos zawsze kurwa cos... A Ci kurwa tez: siedzom patrzom... kurwa sie podoba to uuu brawo, brawo a jak przyjdzie co do czego kurwa to.... zaden nie powie nic kurwa i tak zawsze no eee... kurwa no...ehh

Language / Having a really hard time with Polish cases [59]

do you mean conjugation?
See this: polishforums.com/conjugation_verb_byc-17_16685_0.html

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]


We have the same regulation in Ontario, and I find it useful and I think it makes everybody safer. Some vehicles merge with the background easier than others, so sometimes you may see them when it's too late.

Now, what do headlights have to do with lying again?

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]


Southern,

you always offer the most enjoyable anthropology classes :)

Off-Topic / Are Polish Christians here? [142]


Actually, in ancient Greek love is: agapao.
Filos means friend, but it can also mean friendly, or beloved.

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

Just wondering...
Bear with me here... many African tribes did not have a word for snow, because they never saw snow, so there was no noeed for the word. So... if lying is virtually unknown in English speaking countries then how come the English language has had a word for before the Polih nation was even noted as a nation?

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]


would some of them be Americans?

Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

I'm not sure if lying is unique to Poles.
I know of entire countries Brits built on lies.

Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]

"Busia" (never heard it while I still lived in Poland) seems to be a short form of "babusia", which is yet another diminutive form of babka.


Your spellling is correct.
You can pronounce it as "Bob-cha".

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


What would I be afraid of?
can't you take a wink?


Imagine to have to work for a "s*it sniffing" detachment of an intelligence agency.

Life / Poles are not racist [873]

thank you, that makes me a bot more comfortable. ;)

For years I was in humanities up to my eyeballs, and then one day I decided this is all just an art of bull$hitting (at least some of them) and I switched to computer science.

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


woops :)

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


Oh, they (they damned sociologists) also deny there are human races :)
Reminds me of that criminal in Sweden a few years ago. A nasty fella, armed etc. Swedish media were broadcasting information intended to help the police apprehend him. They failed to mention he was black, because that could have been perceived as prejudicial on the media's part :)


Don't need to. I used to work with him in Buffalo. A good software engineer but nothing to do with bulbs.
Or do you mean someone else? :)

Life / Poles are not racist [873]

"Black" is no longer politically correct. My daughter tells me her sociology prof informed the students that even "a person of African descent" is not so politically correct either. Right now they propose "socially marginalized" My daughter asked the prof: "once sociologists are done doing what they do, are we still going to be allowed to use words"? :)

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


There were over 20 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Edison. It all started with Humphry Davy (Royal Institution of Great Britain) who created the first incandescent light over 70 years before Edison. The light was a bit on a dim sid but the firt steps were made.

In 1874 Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans (Canada) patented an improved electric light bulbs and patented the invention (US Patent 181613). The patent was bought by Thomas Edison who obtained exclusive rights to Canadians' patent. Edision made further improvements to the bulb's design and to commercial production.

Edison's contribution: he made an existing product better. Much like the white borsch I cook is better than my mom's. Pitty I can't patent a soup :)


That started with a Spanish guy in 1775 Francisco de Salva (electrostatic telegraph). hThen there was a bunch of Germans on the communication side and a Brit who is considered the forst computer programmer (Ada Byron). Americans came later :)


Now, that's kinky :)

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]


why spoil a perfectly good drink :)

UK, Ireland / Cheap calls to Poland from the UK [134]

it's not a joke at all.
I'll check what else it says on the card when I get home this evening.

UK, Ireland / Cheap calls to Poland from the UK [134]

the card I use is called... "Calling Card" :)

UK, Ireland / Cheap calls to Poland from the UK [134]


holly maccaroni!!!
Why so much?
I pay $0.008CDN (less than 0.005 GBP) per minute Canada to Poland using calling cards.

PC to PC voice costs $0.00