Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


to lose an opportunity for something by not acting quick enough

może ja teraz spróbuję: this is a Polish phrase: to paint oneself into a corner

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


the last straw that broke the camel's back

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [252]


as for now it's some of those who favour the 'total opposition' who call for boycotting Podkarpackie - strange like this fascist thingy meanders around

Po polsku / Wandalizacja Chrystusa - co robić? [35]

to forum się powoli w kompletny rynsztok zamienia - aż się go nie chce otwierać

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


Russian uses 'wy' as a polite form of addressing another person much more than Polish and it is in standard Russian and not only dialects - focus mafketis, focus

heh I should now say gumishu focus, focus man - I entirely misread your post mafketis - sorry

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


do you maintain that Germany has less diversified industry sector than Poland - think again then

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


now you are kidding

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


you're wrong - the majority of sexual abuses are committed by homosexual priests who lifting of celibacy would not eradicate abruptly - this is not to say that I favour celibacy - many heterosexual priests just have secret relationships or use prostitutes

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


because like 2 per cent of the population is gay

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


searching for money idioms I found this pun: I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest - heh a good one

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

@pawian

ginger stepchild? - urbandictionary says beaten like a ginger stepchild means soundly beaten, utterly defeated.. but redheaded stepchild means someone mistreated, neglected or unwanted

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

drink one's cool aid?

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


qualified majority, sadly

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

it looks bad, pawian - I don't know why PiS claimed success

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]


I think call1n is a troll - noone sane in Poland wants any part of Ukraine or Polonization of Ukrainians

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]


sorry I'm not used to the Ukrainian name - it sounds strange - and I wanted to used a name that is internationally recognizeable - maybe it was not the based choice though

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

I don't frequent any other forums except for this one

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


my disciples? what disciples?


I think, you are paranoid,

History / Piłsudski, like Hitler and Stalin (according to some Lithuanians) [144]


My favourite is Kopertfield (a nickname for Grodzki)

Back to the topic please

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


ok I found this.. but to my understanding this is a synopsis (although rather large) and not the text of the convention


I don't want digests - I want the literal text of the convention


ok, it looks like it is the actual text of the convention - and yes I haven't found anything about same sex couples - I guess the contentious thing is the definition of domestic violence or the passages like this : 'Parties are required to: ... prohibit discrimination including through the recourse to sanctions" and similarly vague passages

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

coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/rms/090000168008482e

I have copypasted the link and it opens their home page

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


Istanbul convention calls homosexual realtionships marriages and as such could be used to introduce same sex marriages in Poland - Poland has enough of it's own anti- domestic-violence legislation - no need to sign any suspicious conventions

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


I meant they are not proper words in Polish, sorry i omitted the 'not'

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



this looks like kontra

10 tys. means 10 thousand
nowa folia - new foil
I don't know how klinkier translates into English
other words I don't recognize - i mean they are proper words in Polish (Lety, petos)

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


I think you can sometimes translate it as 'to exert pressure on somebody' but wait till someone confirms it

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


where were you when the police raided Wprost headquarter when they started publishing stenograms of PO politicians revealing their attitudes and even scandals on their part

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


what makes you think that judges are interested in the courts being more friendly to people - I guess you have an idealistic view of many things

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

it's the fault of the parents then if you ask me

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


I speak from my experience in schools and especially the liceum - it did give an added value as compared to elementary school - maybe it is different now

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


yeah, every averagely inteligent person who reads Wyborcza knows that the pilots involved in Smoleńsk crash said: 'Tak lądują debeściaki' (roughly Behold, best pilots land like that') - only that this is an outright lie


the gimnazjum was obsolete - it didn't give any added value (unlike the German case (because there was no or hardly any co-operation with job markets) - and the problems with secondary education will pass after the double year leaves the schools