Work / Working as a PL-EN translator - good idea? Sworn translators in Poland. [27]


Still, it's gold dust sometimes for those who can do it. It avoids having to use native proof readers to rewrite everything the Polish translator has done, and if it's a literary or academic translation, the publishers always want an idiomatic and nuanced knowledge of both languages, especially in the target language.


The sworn translators; exam isn't as easy here as it used to be. Nevertheless, I know one Brit (without family connections to Poland) who's done it..

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [376]


The baseball cap and the clothes, maybe,

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Of course, however when there's oddballs with an axe to grind, loving life doesn't come into it.

Some of the finest interpreters of Chopin are/were Jewish. The great Polish pianist Artur Rubinstein among them.

And when 'nationalists' try to distort the past in order to create a particular mythos, they only ever end up hurting their own cause.

UK, Ireland / Can anyone recommend private transport/courier for deliveries from UK to Poland? [25]


You're better looking on one of the facebook groups for expats and/or British people in Warsaw. There are people there sending consignments of different sizes back and to all the time and people asking similar questions (and getting quick answers).

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Basically, a Potemkin village.

The more 'official', the less credible. It's an insult to the people who lived at that time.


A Nomenklatura mindset.

Work / Working as a PL-EN translator - good idea? Sworn translators in Poland. [27]


I haven't heard of this company; I'll have a look at them.

Some translation work involves bidding for it on platforms. They usually choose the quickest and/or cheapest.


This does sound like either a scam or just shoddy business practice. Perhaps it's the quality and speed they want to test. They'd probably compare the articles to an existing translation which may well not be much good anyway.


This is good advice.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


One reason that PiS is called PRL-bis.

The problem is that if they try to obfuscate or flat out deny the bad things, people cease to believe in the good things.

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [376]

Belgian, although you could just about pass here.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Censorship is an important issue.


That sounds very much like you favour intimidating people with views different from your own.


The whole point about academic study is to avoid generalisation.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]



There you go again.

It's as if you think truth should be hidden.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Who? The female eyewitness?


Good you approve of academic freedom and disapprove of using the courts to censor historians.


It didn't take you long.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


This should be praised in and cherished as an example of human goodness.

Using the courts to attempt to suppress evidence of the exact opposite behaviour however just makes people wonder what's true and what isn't and call into question what they've heard from reliable sources. It's an insult to those people who did risk (in some cases lose) their and their families life to save other humans to try to obfuscate events during that period and the full horror of the times in which they had to live.

Is Poland robust enough as a country to be transparent about the past or not?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


There's always been the "wojna Polsko Polska", for centuries, with most people not extreme but tending to one side.

Personally I prefer the Poland of Pilsudski, Korczak, Holland, Gross, Gombrowicz, Narutowicz and Tuwim to the Poland of Dmowski, Bubel, Rydzyk, Miedlar and Korwin-Mikke.


This makes it all the more important to be objective, transparent and to not give the impression of trying to manipulate the historical narrative. Truth and only truth wins in the end.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


It's always been like that.


And even fewer enemies.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


part of the issue is that it never was discussed internally. And now an attempt to stifle historians has gone worldwide. Anyone reading the articles about the affair in any one of the 50 countries in which it's been reported now think that Poland is trying to hide things.

Much better to be objective and transparent from the get go, and situations like this (it isn't the first and probably won't be the last) won't arise.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Nothing at all. Although as we see in this thread, there are those who would hide things that don't need to be hidden and shouldn't be hidden.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


There's plenty of dark things in any country that has been occupied by a brutal and savage oppressor.

The man who collaborated with the Nazis in Malinowo for example, the one with exactly the same name as the man who saved Jews (that the lawsuit referred to in this thread is about) is a good example.

The behaviour of one doesn't cancel or balance out the behaviour of the other. Life doesn't work like that.. However both stories are part of the same past. If part of the past is downplayed at any given time, it will stand out all the more later.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


This much is true.

Poland has nothing to hide; it's much better to acknowledge the darker things in the past rather than obfuscate or attempt to censor mentions of them. Being open makes people more understanding of the suffering and appreciative of the good things.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]



Over the past 250 years, how well would you say that's gone?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


"Immature kids" aside, historians will always want to uncover something hidden, and as long as something's perceived as having been buried or suppressed, the books will sell all the better.

USA, Canada / American wanting to move to Poland from USA - how hard is it? [40]

NIP is just a tax identifier.


Those are the ones to avoid like the plague.

A lot of work (from the US and Europe) is outsourced to India and SE Asia now since they'll work for peanuts. I don't see that changing.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Poland has always had that uneasy balance between absolutism and relativism. A narrative of martyrdom can exist together with an acknowledgement that bad things happened too, that some people did bad things.


Yes. And unfortunately attempts to stifle discussion, lawsuits etc don't advance any discussion internally while at the same time bringing issues to a wider and very objective audience.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


One does lead to the other.


Where censorship (or perceived censorship) exists with the goal of preserving a national image, historical debate is inevitably compromised, not least due to few if any objective observers believing a compromised narrative.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


They're very readable and sold well. The controversy only increased worldwide sales.


The alternative is to censor (or self-censor) now, have nobody believe the narrative (and be sceptical of the good things too) then watch it all explode later.

Life / UFOs in Poland [57]

The Kielce one is being restored now. It's an amazing building!

Life / UFOs in Poland [57]

Who knows?

Life / UFOs in Poland [57]


Of course, it's in the article.

There have been a fair few other alleged sightings here.

Die Glocke ws of course a fascist hoax, however some of the other ones are quite entertaining to read about.

UK, Ireland / Old Polish consular passport to renew - live in the UK [3]

This thread has some info.
https://polishforums.com/uk-ireland/nearly-impossible-passport-appointment-london-86175/#msg1771702

This explains the documents you will need, how to arrange an appointment, how to collect the passport and what to do if you don't have all the documents they want: gov.pl/web/wielkabrytania/paszport-dla-osoby-doroslej

This is where you apply online:
secure.e-konsulat.gov.pl/Wizyty/Paszportowe/RejestracjaTerminuWizytyPaszportowej.aspx?guid=0e9b2958ac5d489da805cbc76a925f01

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


Historically, one type of pastry was. Hot water pastry was for preserving meat. It's still delicious though.


JasonDMZ who used to post here was saying the same. He'd apparently spoken to someone at Dealz. Things like HP can be sourced (sauced) within the EU because it's made here (as is English mustard now) however it's all the other stuff that will disappear sadly.