Language / Issues understanding "to go" verb in Polish language [18]

iść means specifically to walk - if you are using some means of transport you use the verb jechać - you don't say . Idę samochodem but Jadę samochodem.

Pić is pronounced by English speakers as picz - pić means to drink picz means pussy - Chcę pić means I am thirsty (literally I want to drink) Chcę picz means I want pussy

Law / Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland [66]

it wouldn't - especially if the outcome would be to allow the abortion on demand - according to polls more than 50 per cent of Poles don't want abortion on demand - but the supporters of it are more politically driven and would go to vote in such a referendum in higher percentage than the opponents

Law / Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland [66]

it's a waste of money and a risk - a risk that the supporters of abortion on demand are much more politically active and driven and would outvote the silent majority - polls show that 50 something per cent of people in Poland are for the current abortion compromise - and if you ask me nothing should change about the matter

Law / Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland [66]


the constitution would have to be changed - that means that would be a constitutional referendum


Casual Observers thinks the British who come here to teach English automatically become Polish on the entry I guess or within a year or so - some people do have strange delusions

Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [401]


Posner means from Poznań or Poznański - Posen is a Gernam name of Poznań

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

still knife crime is ubiquitous in the UK much more so than in Poland

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

i'm not in favour of the ban to be honest - PiS gave in to Solidarność and the church so I sort of understand them - they wouldn't do it if not pressured

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


if they don't have enough cash to buy all furniture at once they would not be able to do it week after week as well

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


is there a footage of it in the interenet? did people really watch the woman being stabbed and did not react?

Australia / Polish pierogi in Australia [11]


my mom makes pierogi dough without eggs - just flour, water and i guess salt

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]

don't be ridiculously obtuse Observer - everyone know cities cannot attack contrary to nations

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]


you really think too much TheOther

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]


oh yes Poland was freed from Nazis only to be grabbed by Soviet-style Soviet-backed communists who installed a rule of terror - maybe you stopped reading your history book before it mentioned it - or maybe your history book was written in the 70's when the UK was run by Soviet apologists

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]


Edytuś is equally long as Edytka or Edycia in terms of syllables (it's all that matters)

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]


internet is not the perfect sample of Polish mafketis

oh Edycia is a good dmininutive of Edyta too

Work / Can I find a job in Poland that requires speaking in English? [82]

I always thought I don't have an accent in English (how humble of me, no?) - and I went to London - nobody actually paid attention to my accent so I thought I don't have one - then I worked with an Irish-born guy for some time and told him that despite living in the UK most of his life he still a noticeable Irish accent - he replied to me that I have a strange accent - I was dismayed and flattered at the same time ;) - dismayed because he said I had an accent and flattered because he could not pinpoint it ;) - I am a strange beast

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]


you still don't have a feel for segments of the language mafketis

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]


i'm not sure you noticed the 500+ programme - it is the most generous and most effective social programme in the last 25 years - it already reduced child poverty drastically -

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]


the most plain would be Edytka, you can also try Edytuś

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]


you know these things cost - the cost would be covered either by the state or by the taxpayers directly (which means it would be paid by the taxpayers either way) - and you expect it to be applauded? - currently coal heating is the cheapest option in Poland - and many Polish people can't afford changing it to other types of heating

all your proposals for policies cost real money - the money that the government and the population don't have at the moment

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]


fook' em :)

Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]


you should be warned about the weather conditions - though it is not very likely that it will snowing according to 2 week forecasts the roads can be slippery because of freezing fog

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


you must be joking, I guess - German hegemony in Europe is harmful for Poland and Trump presidency forms a nice and much expected counterbalance

Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

the one that looks longest will be the most convenient (but partly paid)- why? - because you avoid one-carriageway roads - you head from Łódź to Katowice (double carriageway road for the most part) and in the area of Katowice you join the A4 motorway/interstate and head east - I can't tell you the exact cost but it's not overwhelming

Life / Polish and Czechs [191]


judging from his user name a Jamaican

Life / Polish and Czechs [191]


the Soviet Polish-language radiostation appealed to Varsovians to rise so the AK leadership though the Russians will push on to liberate Warsaw when the uprising starts - we all know what happened next - so no it was not an obvious miscalculation on the side of AK leading figures

News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

mafketis happens to live in Poland and for over 20 years now - which makes the question even more valid


ever heard of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supereme Court introduced by the new law

News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]


I don't know where you live or what you read and watch if you are of this opinion

News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

quis custodiet ipsos custodes - have you heard this Latin saying - it very much applies to judges when they are allowed an absolute self-rule like it was in Poland up to recnetly

News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]


and how do you know if the judge is impartial when a verdict on a political figure is passed? we had plenty of politically motivated verdicts in this country before even though the judiciary was presumably independent - you may not be familiar with them cause you haven't lived here all the time since 1989 - the same is valid for the verdicts of the Constitutional Tribunal but again you haven't been here to judge it - yes the judiciary in Poland was independent - including from logic and decency