Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]


it doesn't make sense from the grammatical point of view (unless you want a new case in declination of Polish nouns : if you say: "potrzebuję torebkę" then according to Polish grammar you should also say "potrzebuję czas" instead of "potrzebuję czasu" - which I doubt you do)

Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]


when I was a kid hardly anybody was saying "potrzebuję torebkę" (instead of "torebki")

Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]


in other words Duolingo is sh** at teaching people Polish - also: unless a learner of Polish is living or going to live in Poland learning the language is pretty useless

News / Poland is the new military power of Europe. [275]


the thing is noone of any significance in Poland is calling for ANY land grabs - and the Polish military buildup is caused by the Russian neighbourhood nothing else

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


a couple of Polish warships played a part in artillery support of the landing British and Canadian troops (look up Polish wikipedia on the subject)

Law / Polish Graduate Working in Poland with GERMAN VISA? [27]


I don't think so (never heard about it)- I met a couple of immigrants without a trace of Polish language knowledge (apart from 'dobry' which stood for 'dzień dobry' ;) )

News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]


I confirm, you have to reapply each year

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]


ryba po grecku - nom nom :)

Law / Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland [66]

I don't remember any details now but I read years ago that photosyntesis in plants significantly increases with the increase of CO2 content in the atmosphere - go figure

edit: newscientist.com/article/2309890-photosynthesis-rates-are-increasing-globally-due-to-rising-co2-levels/

Real Estate / Polish landlord - Walks into my apartment without asking or when i am not at home and wants half rent in cash. [36]


that needs some clarification - Poles are not regarded as people who keep solidarity with their countrymen by the outsiders (but also by many Poles themselves) - and that's in spite of the famous Polish independent trade union name suggests)

Real Estate / Polish landlord - Walks into my apartment without asking or when i am not at home and wants half rent in cash. [36]


to avoid paying some taxes - that's obvious (most Polish landlords never paid any taxes on their incomes from real estate in the past -not sure about now)

as to why landlords in Poland feel free to enter the premises they believe they own: it's a cultural thing and they are definitely not unusual in that respect

Real Estate / Polish landlord - Walks into my apartment without asking or when i am not at home and wants half rent in cash. [36]


that's nonsense, Lyzko - to the point that the opposite is almost proverbial in several Western countries

Genealogy / SKI...SKY...ZKI...Polish surname endings [38]

most of Polish surnames ending in -ski, -cki and -dzki are derived from place names - Molędzki probably means 'of (or 'from') Molędy (or perhaps Molęda) - there is a village called Molendy (previously Molędy) in southern Masovia (Masovia is the region where Warsaw lies)

Genealogy / Help Translating 1880s Marriage Bann (Chicago - Polish) [24]

Roscibórz (or Rościbórz) is not Racibórz - it's Racibórz which is in Upper Silesia - I haven't found any Ros(/ś)cibórz to be honest but this what the written documents seem to indicate

Genealogy / Help Translating 1880s Marriage Bann (Chicago - Polish) [24]

@Lenka

Franiczek Goliński was born in Pelplin ('urodzony w Pelplinie') - the only Pelplin I know is near Gdańsk - Antonina Dudzik seems to be born in a place called Roscibórz (although my quick Google search hasn't found any such place)

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


an LPG central heating furnace plus the gas tank cost more than 15 000 PLN now (on top of the cost of radiators, pipes and the installators' fee that typically costs another 10 000 PLN)

we spent about 10 000 PLN for the whole thing (coal furnace and the whole installation plus the fees) back in the day - additionally LPG heating to the same temperatures cost about 50 per cent more than coal heating back then


I can't answer for all Poles - I personally never mocked Russia for this

also I don't think you understand the difference between LPG (liquid petrol cas - which is mostly a mixture of propane and butane and comes from oil fields degassing) and natural gas (which is mostly methane) - LPG was never distributed through gas grids in Poland and is significantly more expensive than natural gas (if you want an LPG central heating you need to invest in a tank - we didn't have neither money nor space for LPG installation (vide: the tank)

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


I live in a small place (a tiny village in a forest) that is not connected to natural gas grid (and probably never will) - we couldn't afford LPG heating installation -also when we went for central heating, coal was still the cheapest option in Poland

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


it was very much a subsidy (maybe I haven't expressed it clearly enough) - the subsidy was a fixed amount of 3000PLN paid to every household that has declared it used coal for heating - it just happens so that the subsidy roughly covered our yearly need for coal (because I live in a not a very big appartment in a four appartment building (a 'familok' if you know what 'familok' is)

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


we bought 1,5 tonne of coal from the government programme in January for about 2000 per tonne - 1,5 tonne is nearly as much as we need per year - thanks to the government 'coal benefit' we have free heating for the entire season - last year we spent more than 2000 PLN on heating

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


I don't know if you read about it, mafketis, but some communists in the time of Russian revolution advocated 'community of wives'

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


my grandma kept geraniums because she believed they can heal an earache, but I don't remember having ever used them

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


man, so this is what's happening now in schools - I never heard of such things in my school days (the only instance where I have seen this was in a psychiatric ward)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

Yeah, sure: women just love to share toilets with men in schools, clubs etc

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


what I think is that this insanity is premeditated: it is a clever ploy by the financial and other elites to divide the societies (and the world) in order to turn people's don't attention from growing disparity of income and wealth (including the shrinking of the middle class) in the developed nations (and the world at large)

it is exactly why Britain (the UK) is leading in this madness - Butler of the World by Oliver Bullough is an essential read on the subject (as per recommendation by Rafał Ziemkiewicz)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


what is the second wave of feminist goals? I'm genuinely curious ( I don't know anything of waves of feminism apart from universal suffrage)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


yeah, like I told you - you are ultraconservative

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

to repel mosquitos?

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


you are ultraconservative then :P

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


you are wrong, Korvinus - I have examples from my own family, who can't be called rich by any standards yet they gobble the TVN propaganda and hate PiS - think of turkeys voting for Christmas

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]

@jon357

I have posted only three times in this thread and my first post was on March the 8th so just a couple days ago - so no: you haven't answered my question