Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]

A super easy one (inspired by another thread)

X has a good pen

What does it mean?

Language / Question about grammar books [9]


The book doesn't actually explain the difference (just has 'pen' as the translation and długopis is nowhere to be found IIRC).

It did lead to me, more than once, asking someone in a store for a pen only to be told they didn't sell any (while standing in front of about a thousand pens).

I figured it out but... still.... not fun memories....

Language / Question about grammar books [9]

My recommendation would be an older book that isn't a reference grammar but does a pretty good job of explaining structures in plain language

Teach Yourself Polish, by Polish, by M. Corbridge-Patkaniowska (not the later revised version by a different author which is... not so good).

The biggest problem is that some of the vocabulary is outdated (nobody uses pióro for pen anymore...) and so is a lot of the phrasing ('transposition of endings' was still a going concern when the book was published but all but vanished from modern spoken Polish).

Still, it's very good at explaining things step by step in a pretty accessible way.

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That's pretty demanding.... most people would be happy with 'just okay' grandparents....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


Yes! Correct! IIRC this is related to an older usage of bo similar to 'czy' though it sounds like 'because I know'

Used in answer to questions and also in thinking out loud...

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


It's not a rare expression at all... and after a time or two hearing it in context I understood it (without realizing why it meant what it meant)...

another hint: How many coffee beans would it take to weigh a metric ton?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


Your'e right.... it's not that

(to be fair, etymologically and diachronically (ie in the past) it had a different meaning but synchronically (now) it looks and sounds the same as 'because I know'

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]

What about....

because I know....

When is it used?

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


Why I chose that word and not 'car'....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


Or to forestall offers... it was clear to me the first time I heard it but it does lack a certain logical sense.

Here someone asks an expert how it came to and the expert basically says 'don't worry about it'....

sjp.pwn.pl/poradnia/haslo/Jestem-samochodem;11913.html

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]

I don't know if this easy one has been used before

I'm an automobile.

In what circumstance is it used?

News / Will Chinese soldiers be stationed in Poland and Europe in 10 years? [52]


Then why do they explode so often?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


Well more 'to ignore someone in a pointed manner'

wysłany/a do Coventry would be 'be ignored'.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [305]


Yeah, the miserable SOB who looks like his mother gave him pickles to nurse on instead of her teat....

He hates, hates, HATES any kind of positive representation or recognition of Judaism or Jew in Poland, past or present.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


Dokładnie!

Now for non-Brits only....

Wysłać kogoś do Coventry

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]

Reverse riddle: For non-Americans only....

Jestem z Missouri

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [226]


An idea whose time has come!The sooner the better!!!!!

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [226]


Who doesn't understand post WWII Germany in the slightest...

He didn't realize or didn't care that his insanely stupid invasion was something Germany couldn't ignore (apart from a handful of vvhorish politicians he owned).

Germany no longer has imperial ambitions and does not support others' imperial ambitions.

Stupid man does stupid things and russians are helpless...

History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [212]


The CW is that Trump wants it as a hedge against the sino-russian axis in the artic (and he trusts no allies) as part of the larger scenario of the upcoming war with china in the Pacific....

If you don't think china wants war, then you need to get with the program.

The other CW is that Trump is willing to throw Ukraine under the bus on the off chance of splitting up or at least weakening the sino-russian axis...

I don't think there's much chance of that.

At any rate, within a few years there will be a global conflagration killing millions of people because the west had its collective thumb in its zhopa and didn't come down hard on russia in early 2022.

WWIII is getting more baked in every day and its the sino-russian alliance pushing it.

History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [212]


how many NATO troops were/are in Ukraine?

Dude... the truth is russia invaded Donbas in 2014 and drove the part it controlled into the dirt... even Girkin complained about russian mismanagement

then russia invaded the rest of Ukraine in 2022 with the aim of destroying Ukrainian statehood and language on phony 'nazi' charges that only the congenitally retarded could even pretend to believe.

Ukraine is not russia, Ukrainians do not want to be governed by russia.

Everything that has happened is downstream from russians denying reality.

If your miserable misbegotten army had just stayed in its own country almost everyone in Ukraine and russia would have been better off. _That_ is the truth.

Thank you for recharging my 'russophobia' batteries with your russian world nonsense...

Enoy the view

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History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [212]

[quote=]n the spring of 2022, P and Z were ready to sign and prevent this war[/quote]
Are people who post lies like this slvts or vvhores?

A vvhore is at least getting paid by the russian government

A slvt is just doing that because they get off on lying.

I wonder which is the case here...

History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [212]


And what is that truth?

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [152]


My opinion is that ideology doesn't create actions but character does. Those who kill in the name of an ideology wanted to kill all along and use the ideology as an excuse.

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I would think not.... they're not animals....

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [226]


Again... his great dream is for Poland and russia to team up and go to Serbia and commit genocide against Albanians....

He even admitted it once (not using the word 'genocide'....)

Behind the quirky unintentional humor is a heart full of hatred and evil.

We didn't bomb them nearly enough....

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News / Will Chinese soldiers be stationed in Poland and Europe in 10 years? [52]


enough for what?

military adventurism will/would cause a lot of mortality among the younger generations (and China desperately needs young people to work for the burgeoning aging population.... rather like Germany).

China can't fufill Xi's endless ambition (if he's still in charge which is anything but certain) but it can do a lot of damage trying....