Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Polish is a more grammatically precise language then English, even German!
It's aspectual system whereby one verb might be paired with several different forms
depending on duration of action is in fact more exact than tense use, since the Polish
verb allows for greater leeway in terms of repetition vs. one-time occurance.

English: I go/walk to school [every day] aka I attend school [and get there on foot].

Polish: Chodze do szkoly.

English: I happen to be walking/going [towards] school, but not to class.

Polish: Ide do szkoly.

English:I will be walking/going on foot, to school.....

Polish: Pojde do szkoly.

In English, walk or go is used in each of the above sentences, whereas Polish uses a different
verb in each instance. More challenging, yet far more specific and direct, therefore, more comprehensible
for Polish native speakers.

Other verbs in Polish are much more of a challenge to explain to foreigners, such as "umrzec" vs. "umierac"
As far as I know, we only die once since one's own death never occurs repeatedly LOL

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

@Milo, it simply means that Schumann was part Jewish on his father's side and
Roman Catholic on his mother's.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

Father was Jewish, mother was a Roman Catholic by birth, ethnic
French, I presume.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

Sense?

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

The Jewish religion is matrilineal, not patrilineal.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

The "n" might have been added if he were baptized.
His mother was Catholic and so he was only half Jewish.

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [335]

Broken Globish, you mean?
No, Rich et al. Never a smart idea.
Communicate in the language CORRECTLY,
or leave the English speaking to someone who can,
plain and simple.

@Cinek,
Learning a language is a life long pursuit, even of one's native tongue.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

In fact, Maurice Schuman of France envisioned precisely that
during the 1950's.

History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [161]

@wsilpach, kindly cease and desist with your anti-semitic diatribes! As a proud Pole,
'they certainly don't aid your cause.

News / What will Britain's Labor Coup mean for Poland? [100]

Thanks, jon. I guess I prefer my American spelling:-)

@Lenka, did you mean "Brexit"??

News / What will Britain's Labor Coup mean for Poland? [100]

Apparently, Starmer will continue to support the current Brexit! What that'll
mean for Labor's relations with Poland remains to be seen.

Off-Topic / Moderators on PF are breaking the law: not only they can reported for it, but fines apply [96]

@wslipach, you really ought to proofread your English before you post! The first line of
your thread intro. reveals several egregious errors both in grammar as well as meaning.
Not sure I understand what you're trying to say.

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

I was thinking more in terms of apples.

News / Low Priced Ukraine Blueberries have exporters routing around Poland [17]

Ukraine might well have the best blueberries, but Poland still has the best apples, I'm told.

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

..and off the deep end, so it seems.

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

Topic thread here, folks??

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

Poland is also known for some of the best natural produce on the Continent,
furthermore, she has considerable wilderness, often not found in most European countries,
except perhaps for Northern Sweden or Finland.

In addition to a rich history, Poland can also count Adam Mickiewicz as the first to
write an epic in modern European literature, namely, "Pan Tadeusz", add to that,
the first composer to teach the piano to sing, Frederyk Szopen aka Frederic Chopin, and so forth, and so on....

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

Thanks, jon!

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

Most intriguing! Any inkling as to why?

Perhaps a verb using the preposition "za" would be the
nearest equivalent, e.g. "wyjsc za maz", literally "go after [a] husband"

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

Hmmm, interesting. Will have to ck. into that, jon.

I somehow recall though "byc nastepca", "nastep(-ow)ac".

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

kombinowac = to make stuff up

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

I agree, jon.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

Well, Johnny, I'm glad to hear one of youse admit it!

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

Much of such talk has long been debunked by scholars.

News / 33rd Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow [6]

Krakow still has the largest population of Jews in Poland
as well as the most active Jewish life.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

Macron and partner in crime Scholz will risk losing the election next time round!!
All this will make Le Pen and her cohorts among the AfD look ever more attractive:-)

Same here with Biden allowing illegal migrants over the border who end up killing
a college student. The bone heads out there in la-la land, people who don't read the
New York Times because they probably can't read, will simply end up voting for Trump.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Thanks, Milo! Appreciate all the hard won kudos I can get there, mate:-)

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

Albanian for "you" formal is "Ju" and pronounced 'yeeew',
with a nearly pure umlaut homophone! Hungarian for "house" is "haz"
(acute accent mark above the "a"!), and while a direct cognate for the English lexical equivalent,
albeit with varying pronunciation, points to ZERO historic relation with the Germanic languages.
Hungarian is Uralic with a heavy dose of neighboring Slavic vocabulary and Albanian, as far as we
can tell is mostly Illyrian, add to that, strong admixture over the centuries from Greek and Turkish.

In short, as a linguist myself, I'd have to side with both Maf and Milo and dub your notions double bullox!!

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

There I agree with you, Rich, I didn't miss your point at all!
Europeans often speak a kind of bookish English
because they translate literally in their head before expressing
themselves and not figuratively, that's quite right.

Why d'you think most traditional American humor such as the Marx Bros.
or Abbott & Costello usually goes way over their heads?