Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]


laska and the diminutive laseczka is a quite fresh borrowing from the Czech language - 'laska' in Czech means 'love' also a person one loves or has a crush on

at first 'laska' or 'moja laska' meant a girlfriend then it developed a meaning of girl in general and then 'hot girl'

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


your Polish is not bad but it's far from fluency Lyzko

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


you are one funny guy

History / Poland's Crowns jewels - what happened to them? [2]

they were robbed and re-smelted by the Prussians in the late 18th century (in the time of partitions of Poland)

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


completely made up

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

Polish MPs travel for free on nationals connections regardless of what is the reason of their travel - it is the law

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]


what you call transliteration is actually literal translation - transliteration is a completely different thing

Language / Polish names without a nickname (or less frequently shortened) [61]


yes Robert is not typically modified

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]


you sure know about history Harry :P - I mean you know s h i t about history

History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]


how terrible it must feel to be a German to want to denigrate other nations or take their pride from them

UK, Ireland / My bad experiences with Polish neighbours in UK (not meant to offend) [173]


forget about it - Polish language has a very steep learning curve for beginners - without intensive learning and immersion you will never be able to speak or even properly understand Polish

as for your problems with your Polish neighbours I totally believe you - Poles are definitely no saints - there is much egoism, greed and sexism involved when it comes to Poles especially the uneducated

History / Kielce Pogrom - new findings by IPN [42]


by whom? by yourself? what facts do you actually know about the event?

News / When will Poland take on the EURO? [47]


it's so sound Cental European Bank printed billions of euro just to buy back the outstanding debt of Italy, Spain and Portugal and it suddenly and significantly dropped in value against all major currencies

News / When will Poland take on the EURO? [47]


the treaty doesn't provide a deadline for Poland and Czech Republic to adopt euro - it can well be in 20 years

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


Nobody - not even God - can change your heart except yourself - no amount of prayer you do will change terrorists - however you can pray for taking these fanatic belligerent souls from the Earth


actually God can change your heart but not against your will

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

well something along those lines - I have met Mormons in Poland (Americans) and they spoke Polish reasonably well for a duration they had learned the language

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


French and a couple of other languages (Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian) also have ogonki (under consonants in this case) and they were long called the French term cedille

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


the hat is officialy called hacek even in English linguistics (it's a borrowing from Czech language)

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


well Ingveon means sort of West West Germanic - I was actually wrong when I said Plattdeutsch and Dutch are Ingveon - only English and Frisian are - the name presumably comes from the old Germanic god Yngvi

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingaevones

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


so you also don't believe in PiS integrity??? I thought you were a supporter :P

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


young people were manipulated by the pedagogy of shame - now young people see the fruits of the 8 years of PO government and act accordingly


you want examples of corruption in PO - afera hazardowa, afera autostradowa, afera stoczniowa, afera stadionowa, afera taśmowa, afera Ambergold, afera informatyczna, afera gazoportowa

now give me examples of 'endemic' corruption within PiS


corruption levels haven't fallen, the services which are supposed to fight the corruption turned deaf and blind

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


if they were so easy why haven't you translated them???
you failed my test jon

£yżko you have a good memory for languages - you would learn Polish pretty well given sufficient exposure - you already have a good base

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

jon you might have missed my challenge so I repeat it - please translate this following tiny dialogue into Polish to prove your competence in Polish:

- I will tell mum.
- Don't tell her!

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


the situation you describe has happened after Marcinkiewicz was removed from the prime minister post and when he was already a PO supporter


and this was this serious disaster??? have foreign investments fallen because of that? I accept only hard data for the foreign investments claim - btw you are British - what does it matter to you how Poland is perceived by the outside world


this was this serious disaster? no beer on train buffets? - I thought it must have been a serious thing


what kind of weidness? was it really disastrous? for whom?


PiS is a danger to whom???

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


what disastrous actually happened back then jon - can you explain??

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

it's not about the difference but similarity - Polish was the first language that the -tio ending of Latin changed into -cja and Russians borrowed the convention (slightly changing the ending to suit their ways of pronounciation)

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

it may be quite nuanced but 'nalał swoim braciom' does not convey exactly the same notion as 'ponalewał'

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


ponalewał is the regular form and is widely used by anyone competent in Polish - the other ways of conveying the same message are highly periphrastic

jon - there is simpler way to tell your competence in Polish just translate a simple dialogue into Polish:
-I will tell mum!
Don't tell mum!
simple - if you get it right I will proclaim you are competent in Polish