History / Sensational : the biblical Philistines - were they Slavic people? [8]

More details now on the deciphered ancient text:

It reads: [L]*IUDI PADI PA WEDIMI (* Possible lost letter on the right of the inscription)

LIUDI - Gsl. subst: people;
Bos. Люди-people; Cro. Ljudi-people; Mac. луѓе-people; Pol. Ludzie- people; Rus. Люди-people; Ser. Људи-people; Slo. Ljudj-people; Slov. Ľudia.-people; Cze. lidé- people; Ukr. Люди-people.

PADI - Gsl. verb in imp. tense: come!;
Cro. Dođete-come; Mac. Oди-come; Slo. Pojdi-come; Rus. Поди- come; Ser. Дођи-come; Ukr. Піди-come.

PA - Gsl. pre.: on, in, at;
Bos. Po-in, on; Bul. По-in, on, at; Cro. Po-in, on; Lit. po-in, on, at; Pol. Po-in, on, at; Rus. По-in, on, at; Ser. По-in, on, at; Ukr. По-in, on.

WEDIMI - Gsl. v. pres. tense, 2nd plur. pers.: we see;
Mac. видиме-we see; Bul. ние виждаме-we see; Cro. Vidimo-we see; Rum.Vedem-we see; Rus.мы видим-we see; Ser. Видимо-we see; Slov. Vidimo-we see; Cze. Vidime-we see; Ukr. ми бачимо-we see.

From the above spelling and its interpretation, the consequent translation of the inscription is: People come in, we see, or in loose translation: Come and see. Probably, the inscription was an invitation to the public to dis-cover and/or to ta ste the content of the jar.

Abreviations: Bos. Bosnian; Bul. Bulgarian; Cro. Croatian; Cze. Czech; Gsl. Generally Slavic; imp. Imperative; Lit. Lithuanian; Mac. Macedonian; Pol. Polish; pre. Preposition; pres. Present; Rum. Rumanian; Rus. Russian; Ser. Serbian; Slo. Slovenian; Slov. Slovakian; Ukr. Ukrainian; v. Verb

Life / Opłatek, not presents, epitomises the true Polish Christmas spirit [85]


Tell it to my family, dude!

Life / Opłatek, not presents, epitomises the true Polish Christmas spirit [85]

What epitomises Christmas these days in Poland is too much fuss about it and too much food prepared on the occasion. ARC Rynek i Opinia Institute says that every Pole in four doesn't like Christmas (I am no exception).The main reason for those who dislike Christmas is a financial one. The necessity felt by people to prepare all this food for Christmas and buy presents is rather sick. Personally, I may identify myself with that chap from a TV advertissment who says to his wife:

- Co!? Znowu święta? Przecież niedawno były ...

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]


Basically, the same can be said about a typical Pole's knowledge of Bulgaria. Here are some of my "encounters" with Bulgaria.

1a. Władysław Warneńczyk is known in Poland mostly as a Jagiellonian king who died at Varna trying to fight the Turks (his military expedition was a kind of political mistake, however, as he seems to be largely manipulated by the Vatican against the Polish interests). At present, he has become a 'fashionable' figure again as some people say he had not died at Varna, but was rescued and later became father to Christopher Columbus, the chap who discovered America. This conspiracy theory had been created by an Italian author whose book was later translated into Polish and gained quite a lot of publicity in Poland.

1b. Some time ago I read that the mother of Władysław Łokietek, the king who re-created the Kingdom of Poland in 1320, was likely to have been the daughter of Bulgaria's tsar Simeon. Anyway, she was certainly a Bulgarian princes.

2. Bulgaria was the main summer southern destination for Polish tourists in the communist times. People often went there in a Polski Fiat 126p car ('Maluch") loaded with all the necessary things of four persons spending a two week holiday which from today's perspective seems to be utterly crazy and out of this world. I myself have never been to Bulgaria, but my wife was and she says she couldn't buy anything (mostly some water to drink) in shops at the seaside as the response she got was always 'odpochivka'. Even if this was back in the communist times, she swore she would never set foot in Bulgaria again. Despite that, Bulgaria had on avarage a very good opinion among Poles travelling there in summer.

3, A few years ago, a friend of ours was buying summer appartments at the Bulgarian coast at competitive prices and she has been renting them to this very day to fellow Poles wishing to spend a holiday there.

4. Bulgaria along with Romania has in Poland the reputation of a country where corruption flourishes these days. That, of course, doesn't mean that Poland is a country free of corruption.

Law / Where can I check in Poland my company formation status and tax number NIP and REGON? [95]

You can order a full report on the Topaz company through the KRS wesite. After clicking "Zamów pełny raport", you can click "Zobacz raport przykładowy" to see an example of how such a report looks like before ordering the report on "Topaz Energy". The report costs 11,07 zł (payable by an SMS or banking card), so I wouldn't expect much bearing in mind that the company was registered on the 30 of May 2016.

krs-online.com.pl/topaz-energy-sp-z-o-o-krs-6341606.html

UK, Ireland / Prices of Clothes in Poland and England [36]


+1

Law / Where can I check in Poland my company formation status and tax number NIP and REGON? [95]

The plot thickens, Atch, apparently ...

Law / Where can I check in Poland my company formation status and tax number NIP and REGON? [95]

Every company of that address at app. 410 has diferent names in the registry, so it is likely that it only is a P.O. Box.

warszawa.epolska.com.pl/hoza?p=94

Po polsku / Poznać w Polska kobieta [19]

Skąd wziąłeś się w Izraelu będąc pół Iraqi i pół Polaki?

Law / Where can I check in Poland my company formation status and tax number NIP and REGON? [95]


There is only one shareholder of Topaz Energy sp. z o. o. and the company address (the appartment number at Hoża 86) at Hoża Street is shared by at least another 30 company names (however, I have stopped counting at this number).

Language / Good Polish Music To Help Me Learn? [44]



Both are correct. Notice that the verb "bać się" may be used both transitively and intransitively.
Boję się mojej mamy --> [kogo? czego?] transitively.
Boję się [o moją mamę] --> intransitively.

The meaning is different in either case.

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [132]

Śkłodówśką-Curie

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]


I can understand "Hollywood", but I cannot work out the meaning of 'Madison Avenue' in your culture context.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]


I can see "Turkey, Istanbul" in your profile, Wincig. Are you Turkish? If so, you should first start explaining the Armenian Genocide by the Turks in 1915-1917 before moving on to accusing other ethnicities of being ruthless or savage.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]


Crow would explain it better to you, but I must say that you are oversimplifying things enormously here. Russia has been a traditional ally of Serbia for centuries. The Turkish invasions of the Balkan peninsula was the main factor responsible for this. The only power the Serbians could appeal for help in fighting the Turks were the Russians with whom they also share their Orthodox Christian religion and the cyrillic alphabet.

These days there also comes the factor of Kosovo which was once a Serbian ethnic territory and which the so-called West decided to deprive the Serbians of despite insisting that border changes in Europe are unacceptable anywhere else.

To say that Serbia only bows and grovels to Russia is very unfair to the Serbians, to say the least. Even some huge mistakes in the foreign policy of Serbia doesn't justify that.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]


Moscow says it continues its own investigation and once the investigation is over, they'll return the wreckage and the flight recorders to the Poles.

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]


Beuthen is a naturally germanized Slavic name, but you cant tell the same about Łódź/Litzmannstadt. The latter was simply baptized anew.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

A particularly nice photo of the Polish presidential couple at a formal dinner after a Mediterranean Summit meeting at the Petit Palais in Paris (July 13, 2008):



THIBAULT CAMUS, AP (cbsnews.com)

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

[Moved from]: Supermoon November 2016 - have you seen it?

That is how I saw it yesterday night ...

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

A COINCIDENCE ? The biggest moon for the first time ever since 70 years precisely on the day of the exhumation of the man who once stole it* ...

*) allusion to the popular film of 1962 "The Two Who Stole the Moon" starring Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński.

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]

Coal deposits in Poland are not easily accessible:

Top layer : Statism
Lower layers : Trade unions, Excise tax, Politics
Bottom layer : COAL

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]


The hottest year was back then when the big comet hit the Earth. The dinosaurs died out as a result, but the Earth has survived. If the earth managed to survive that, it will surely survive Trump (or Crooked Hillary for that matter).

History / What are Poland's pagan roots? [62]

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Have any original statues of Svetovid been found in Serbia, Crow? Or have any original visual representations of this ancient Slavic god been known in Serbia or in Croatia? Christianity after coming to Poland in the 10th was relentlessly destroying figures of pagan gods. One such statue had been dug out near Kielce in the 17th century, but the stupid monks who had a monastery there distroyed that one, too.

What other pagan Slavic gods except for Svetovid do you know in Serbia?

Language / Is it possible to master the Polish language fluently for a non-Polish speaker? [120]


Yes, learning from "lists" is completely useless. The polish people often make this mistake learning the cases of German articles.

Language / Good Polish Music To Help Me Learn? [44]


I think you should try Ewa Demarczyk.

Language / Dziadzia / Babcia - help me with spelling/pronunciation [81]

Or "pijok" as many country people would say.

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

My God! What an incredible amount of cash you keep in bank notes!

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]


He looks like the Serbian version of Mr. Bean.

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



Plus his views on the RCC where he exempts them from commiting any possible sins plus his views on gay people plus his views on the same-sex marriage - you should add.

That's why I often think he does it all on purpose (to keep the PolishForums going ;-) or perhaps to counteract the libtards' offensive on it)