Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


Actuall the that doesn't apply to the sz and s thing at all (since egeszseg 'health' has the ś/sz sound since the final s determines the sound of the sz before it) it's a vowel thing, Poles can't disitnguish the short (and lower) e from the long (and higher) one.

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


Well the Hungarian s is closer to Polish ś so when Hungarians try to say proszę Poles hear prosię (piglet).

The problem pronouning Szeged in the Polish manner is that Hungarians hear "twoja dvpa" (your @ss) similarly the Hungarian toast egészségedre often sounds (when said by Poles) something like "to your entire @ss!" (do całej twojej dvpy)

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

And the chutzpah of the year award goes to...... Andrzej Duda who

"Chciałbym, żeby w tym zakresie Konstytucja RP była w pełni przestrzegana i tak jako prezydent to realizuję"

(quick rough translation)

"I would like for the Constitution of the RP to be observed in this matter and as the president I will do so"

This from one of the henchmen who helped gut the consitution (brinjging shame upon his profession and the office of president) so that a particular party could rule with no legal restrictions. Hypocrisy thy name is Duda!

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Law / Polish Visa Refused, Going To Make Appeal, What should I do ? [81]


Or inside? India has relentlessly pursue a policy of education in English (rather than local languages) and this is one of the side effects.

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

My humble offering...


All points fly-in to Łódź


All points fly-in, all points (here it's tougher) drive-in?


The Main Event was an all points fly-in, organized by Aereoklub Łódź.

I'm pretty sure about fly-in (my brother sometimes takes part in them) I'm taking 'all points' from 'all points bulletin'

News / Goran Bregovic`s concerts banned from Poland ? [30]


The same reason the US (rightly) placed economic sanction and trade restrictions on Poland after martial law was declared. Or do you think that western powers should have done everything to help the communist government stay in power?


No. Do you support Serbian hegemony in the Balkans?

News / Goran Bregovic`s concerts banned from Poland ? [30]


Glad you recognize those facts! Anything is better than an alliance with Russia! (has any country ever been a Russian ally and not regretted it bitterly? No!)

News / Goran Bregovic`s concerts banned from Poland ? [30]


I care about the rule of law. If the people of Crimea really wanted to join Russia then there are ways to do that peacefully. A wildcat referendum carried out under de facto military occupation (where some precincts had more people voting that resident) is not the rule of law.

But Russia (and it's supporters) have always favored brute force. that's one reason Poland will never allign with Russia willingly.

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


The Croation woman (and her Serbian mother) were pretty sure they were pure Serbian weaponry that they were hiding from.

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


There is no such thing as "Serbian blood".


Then go forth and sin no more!


And they get to decide about that, no you or any other Serbian.

FWIW I know one woman from Zagreb with a Croatian father and Serbian mother who culturally completely self-identifies as Croatian. This might partly be because remembers hiding in the basement while Serbs were bombing her neighborhood. What do Serbs have to offer her now except more violence?

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


Standard Croatian is based on shtokavian and many Croats I know would not for a second accept it as "Serbian".

But Crow has an infantile mentality that cannot conceive of any other world view but his own (or simply ascribes any differing opinion from his as the dread German Anglo influence).

The idea that Croatians have their own story simply doesn't occur to him, it's all land to be reclaimed for Mother Serbia (again the infantile mentality that needs a mommy figure to please).

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


And that's how the wars started. Congratulations!

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


What rights were being denied in Split?

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


I remember a Croation (from Split) talking about how his parents were fine with being in Jugoslavija but freaked out when Milosevic started talking about their home being part of greater serbia they absolutely did not want to be ruled from Belgrade.

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


Considering that I don't trust TW files more than any other aspect of the PRL I'm not terribly concerned about what names are found there (absent more compelling evidence).

But PiS gets their noses out of joint (placing enormous faith in the honesty of communist record keepers) so ignoring someone who was a TW in their own ranks stinks of hypocrisy.

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


Nationalism is fine (I'm very much in favor of some form of moderate nationalism as opposed to multi-culti ghettos).

Some type of nationalism is necessary for the functioning of the nation state (a flawed political system which nevertheless delivered the highest quality of life for the highest number in the history of the world).

Most political elites are in favor of discarding the nation-state model (while maintaining their positions within it - very hypocrytical) for something called the market state (think of all of Europe being London).

But a 19th century model of nationalism (geared to 19th century social and technological infrastructure) isn't going to work in the 21st. The trick is figuring out a viable model to preserve nation state services (education, law, infrastructure) which will be discarded in the coming market state.

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


Name doesn't ring many bells.... does quick search... oh. that. guy. Yeah I've seen him maybe read something by him. He keeps terrible company with JKM and the mad attempt to ressurect 19th century nationalism.... a wrongheaded idea.

Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]


No it isn't. Croatian and Serbian are micro-standards of a larger language but the two are distinct.

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


Some proven SB snitches are more equal than others, in his case he's apparently received absolution from the Papież PiSiak himself.

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


It's pretty obvious they had a very non-oppressed upbringing and probably had unofficial party connections, their very mild dissident actions seemed to be that typical of party brats. The current attempt to rewrite well-known history to make them the leaders of the anti-communist movement is nothing less than obscene.

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


Had a long response that the new feature completely flunked in keeping. First time I need it and .... nuthin'

Unless you can find a quote of his saying "I want to prosecute dissidents" or "Please let me prosecute dissidents" or "If you let me work here I'll prosecute dissidents for you!" or similar words from his mouth directly I'm not interested.

You're just hurting your own side with unsubstantiated embellishments when the plain truth is quite damning enough.

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


It's okay to post in Polish w/English translation (your own, preferably)

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


If you don't want to do something, it doesn't take courage to not do that....

Language / Which books do native Polish people in Poland use to learn Polish? [72]

They're kind of like similar books in America they're useless for learning Polish as a foreign language (the students already know the grammar).


Standard Polish has expanded greatly after WWII and most local dialects have become more like accents of standard Polish rather than having their own grammars. Silesia and the Tatra mountains and Kashubia still have relatively distinct dialects (though they two are becoming more like standard Polish)

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

Yes, it's metaphoric because you lack the courage needed to pursue your desires... (in my considered judgement).

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


The hate and derision is because he has power and no responsibility. That's a formula for despotism. And his putting personal grudges over the interests of the country (as in alienating all of Poland's European allies recently) is an emerging sign of that.


erotic and JK have nothing to do with each other, if you think they do.... get help, please

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


Unlike the venomous little toad who's primary character trait is snapping at the hand that feeds him....

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


The same way that you think that if you keep posting your (metaphorical) blovvjobs on JK that people will actually believe it....

Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]


By far the best commercial pierogies I've had were in Wrocław (a city with a big Ukrainian connection) in a small restaurant (Polish 'bar') a few blocks from the train station. Covered with brown onions. I got them as a snack but after eating six I wasn't hungry for the rest of the day....

The best homemade pierogies I've had were made by the mother of a friend (from around Sandomierz).

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]

Yes, I'm generally in favor of the EU but think pretty clear reform is needed. It is not clear that one iota more of "intergration" will bring anythng good for example.

I hope it can be changed because if it isn't it's going to collapse.