News / Poland's Future in the EU under PIS [51]


Which is weird because American news coverage was always completely farked. It was all IRA all the time as if they were the only violent group.

Imagine my shock in the early 90s in Poland where there were constant stories about protestant on catholic violence...

Isn't a big problem at present the fact that Teresa May has cast in her lot with some fringey protestant group (needed for a coalition... or did that ever happen?)

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

Okay, I just looked up a couple of Polish (in Polish) forums where people discuss this very issue.

There is very broad agreement that this is not necessary or even advisable at present. Some random comments (all by Polish women) give you the general idea (nb my translations are free and idiomatic and not literal)

"a bym się czuła niczym sprzedawana za kozę" (I would feel like I'd been traded for a goat)

"Sama bym sie ze wstydu spaliła gdyby mój mąz odstawił szopke przed rodzicami, a oni by go śmiechem zabili. " (For myself, I'd die of shame of my husband put on a show like that before my parents and they would die laughing)

"Lepiej ich nie proś o rękę córki, bo co zrobisz jak się nie zgodzą?" (Better not ask for their daughter's hand, what are you gonna do if they say no?"

"ale jakby facet poprosił mnie o rękę przy rodzinie poczulabym się zażenowana i zawstydzona...to jednak dosyć intymna chwila." (But if some guy proposed to me in front of my family I'd feel embarrassed and ashamed - it's supposed to be an intimate moment"

"osobiście spaliłabym się ze wstydu gdyby chłopak chciał kląkać przed moim ojcem... masakra i porażka." (personally I'd die of shame if my boyfriend wanted to kneel in front of my father, what an epic fail)

etc etc etc

My advice: Ask Kasia and after she says yes, ask how you should inform her parents (or ask for their blessing) including something that you can say in Polish.

News / Poland's Future in the EU under PIS [51]

You wound me! ....... And iffen I had my gun you might sing a right different tune...

News / Poland's Future in the EU under PIS [51]


Aha! they get bribes from the EU to not kill each other? Or are the bribes aimed more at one side?


Cool.... what's the problem? th eUK doesn't want it?

News / Poland's Future in the EU under PIS [51]


What particular role does the EU play? Does it send troops? Bureaucrats? What specifically does the EU do on a practical day to day basis?

News / Poland's Future in the EU under PIS [51]


Yes, this seems very much like a problem imposed by the EU itself so the crocodile tears it sheds don't move me much....

News / Poland's Future in the EU under PIS [51]


Has he told Merkel and Macron?


They're already doing that. Not so successfully but the EU is being very helpful with its belligerant attitude on a whole host of issues.

The EU invokes solidarity when it helps the German-French axis and invokes other things (like austerity and sticking it to southern Eruope) when that helps the German-French axis.

As I keep saying read up on Toynbee's "universal state", the EU is following that failed model to a T.

I'm not anti-EU by any means but the leadership is old and reactive and have no real meaningful connection to the lives of ordinary citizens whose interests they consistently work against.

I agree PiS svcks and are against the EU because it represents a threat to their own dream of reestablishing PRL style patronage but there are serious structural flaws in the EU that the elite are resisting.

News / Mister President Andrzej Duda - Best Poland could get. [96]


Oh please, he was totally on board with every morally bankrupt neocon military action (none of which did any good whatsoever for the US or the countries being invaded)

Name three good results of the Iraqi invasion!


anyone who deviates from the neocon manta "Invade the world, invite the world, in hock to the world!"

let's back on topic about Polish president please

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]


That'll just sound stupid in Polish. Ask a friend of Kasia's (or Kasia herself) to write something short and suitable that won't make you sound like a Harlequin romance novel come to life....

News / Mister President Andrzej Duda - Best Poland could get. [96]


Look at the funeral for John McCain* the entire elite of both parties united... except for the president of the country who was excluded. Pretty maverick.

*an excrable piece of filth repsonsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, may he rot in hell

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]


Ja ciebie kocham, Stacey, moje kochanie.

I love you, Stacey, my darling.

not necessarily the most idiomatic way to say it in modern Polish but quite recognizable

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]


Or Yiddish "Oy"? In that case a translation might be "Oy! There's gonna be a beatdown"

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

I'm not sure what's going on with uj, whether it's supposed to be chuj or some interjection (Polish dictionaries only give it as an abbreviation of the university in Krakow)

The expression "uj z tym" (according to urban dictionary) means something like "fvck it!" (forget it)

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

I read it as a misspelling of "chuj będzie wpierdol"

chuj = peener, d1ck
będzie = will be
wpierdol means roughly @ss kicking, beatdown

that gets no google hits so it's probably meant to represent poor grammar with a meaning like "d1ck's gonna get an @ss-kicking"

native speakers will probably be able to further elucidate....

News / Purturbing opinion: Poland is not a woman, it is a drunk, inept guy in depression [30]


Gretkowska is a well-known author who's works have been praised by the likes of Czesław Miłosz. I'm sure the... ambiguity of the phrase is on purpose.

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]


Okay, the second line looks like someone just got a mouth full of seawater...

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Oh, being disrespectful to them (esp the Wlesh) is just right and good.

Real Estate / Where to look on the internet for Poland Real Estate [114]

Also sometimes Polish real estate offices use the term 'immovables' in English (it's a direct translation of 'nieruchomości' which might be a direction translation of the German term 'Immobilien')

Life / Why do Silesians hate Poland? [41]


More revived than survived. In the early 90s I knew a German guy in Poland who had been a social worker and became interested in Poland after working with a bunch of "Germans" from Silesia who'd migrated to Germany... and they didn't know any German when they arrived. They spoke standard Polish and Silesian... A former colleague who lived there in the late 1990s early 2000s said they'd put up German signs and some people had started speaking German (going back and forth between the two countries a lot)

There's also the question of Czech Silesia..

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

dziadzia yes, but bushia (busia?) is not used in Poland, babcia is the normal word.

Love / How do guys from Poland flirt? [47]


They'll give the man every opportunity to make the first move, but if he doesn't.... then they'll go ahead and make it. They're not the type to wait around for years waiting for some guy to initiate.

Love / How do guys from Poland flirt? [47]

A lot of the better Polish guys tend to the shy side and will wait for very clear signs of interest or just wait for the woman to make the first move (Polish women are mostly not very shy and have no problem with making the first move)

Find/invent a reason to ask for help/advice. If he's possibly interested he'll be happy to help, if he says he can't help (without trying) he's not interested.

News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]


All former Soviet countries where Russian is a first or second language. Russian speakers learn survival Polish with very little effort and there was a long history of Armenian immigration (which everybody forgets because they assimilated so thoroughly even taking Polish names*).

Poles worrying about Russian speaking immigrants is like the Dutch worrying about German (or Afrikaans) speaking immigrants.
Georgians are another kettle of fish but I'm not expecting many to show up in Poland.

I'm not expecting most Indian students to stay in Poland. A big difference between Poland and the Netherlands is that there's not much of a social safety net so non-western immigrants (for the time being) have to stay on the good side of the local population. Infrastructure and skimpy housing options make the formations of ghettos very unlikely.

Immigration from predominantly muslim countries is not and most likely will never be encouraged, despite historically good relations with Turkey and some Arab countries (esp Syria, there's long been a small Syrian minority in Poland who are largely in medicine and building if I'm not mistaken).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Poland#Notable_Poles_of_Armenian_descent

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


an imaginary event that no one here believes, you silly Mazurek.


yeah, you're more like what they leave behind in the fields...

News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]


Yes, they're economic migrants who work for a while and then go back home (some percentage will surely stay on for good but no one I know is concerned about that). Where I live there are about 10 buses a day going to and arriving from Ukraine (and you can't walk down the street for 10 minutes without hearing someone speaking Russian). Again, this bothers almost no one.

Work / New Job at Warsaw International School as an English teacher - Advice? What should I expect? [26]


Which makes you look like an incompetent boob to the class (and/or an unsuccessful language learner, hardly a great role model). I just take care of the interruption as quickly as possible and get back to the lesson.

There's a lot of weird folklore about teaching languages that doesn't help learners in the slightest - the idea that a teacher should pretend to be monolingual is one of them. It's perfectly possible to have a monolingual classroom (except for extraordinary circumstances) without that silly charade.

News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]


That's the population as a whole, any kind of slavic fellowship or pan-slavic feeling is all but non-existent in Poland.


Cause that's what they want to be?

Work / New Job at Warsaw International School as an English teacher - Advice? What should I expect? [26]


Saying "I don't speak Polish" when you can is lying.

What happens if someone comes into the room and asks them something in Polish? (this definitely happens a lot in Poland)

Work / New Job at Warsaw International School as an English teacher - Advice? What should I expect? [26]


These are children, if he claims to not know Polish and then they realize he does, then they'll perceive him as another grown up liar.

Not responding in Polish during class is okay but it's rarely a good idea to outright lie to students of any age.

Work / New Job at Warsaw International School as an English teacher - Advice? What should I expect? [26]


Dumb rule. They'll figure it out anyway and it makes you look like a liar.