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

well the average Polish person's English is not very good Chemikiem and people really often overestimate their language abilities in English - what I believe is Lyzko falls into a trap of switching to Polish when he sees that communication in English is somehow not fluent or hampered but he doesn't notice that him trying to speak Polish is equally awkward to Polish ears as Poles trying to communicate in English with him (I think he overestimates his Polish proficiency as well) - having said that English is a strange beast - it seems easy because you can easily start to communicate in it but to speak it well demands a lot of learning and excercise - I for once haven't mastered English so far - perhaps I am on advanced level (I hold the CAE) but I'm very far from proficiency

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


as usual you only see one side of the coin - I assure you that PiS opponents use a very malicious and often primitive abuse forms on PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński and their supporters - and no this is nothing new it started with the anit-PiS media campaign in 2005

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


what a lovely choice of words jon - I congratulate you

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


the rest mostly didn't care (almost 50 per cent) - what are you going to do about that?

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


the turnout was over 50 per cent and was higher than in the parliamentary elections in 2011 - Polish parliamentary election turnout never crossed the 55 per cent threshold since 1989

name the lies of PiS in the campaing will you ? - or what do you mean by hysteria actually - care to elaborate?

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


are you aware that just throwing money into a system doesn't necesarilly make it better in the short run - you need structural changes and a long term policy - and you first need to recognize the many problems public education has and think about possible solutions - lastly the money the state is going to pay to parents can well end up being spent on education of the children just not in the public system

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


have you seen the scenes at the borders - why all policemen and border guards wear protectory masks? because they think it is funny?

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


do you make up things as you go or do you repeat Gazeta Wyborcza's propaganda?

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

no the 'je' in Podlasie is pronounced whit double j (jje) - presumably to avoid confusion

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


chrząść indeed is not a word in Polish but 'chrzęść' is - it is singular second person imperative of 'chrzęścić' (to scrunch more or less)

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]


the other one - sure the word laska existed in Polish for centuries before but the meaning of girlfriend then a girl in general then hot girl was borrowed from the Czech language in like late 70's or even 80's

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]


which media - are PiS closing the likes of Gazeta Wyborcza, Newsweek or TVN - how do they actuallly stiffle them? care to elaborate?

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you seem to forget PO robbed the retirement funds to save the budget and still they planned huge deficit the next year (with minimal wefare)

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


actually this may have been -śta but I am not sure now

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


I don't recall anything peculiar for the second person plural ending - I think it was -ście all the way.

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


not only western Poland - my grandparents on the side of my mom were from Łomża region and they spoke a dialect similiar to the dialect of Kurpie and they used the pattern of robilim.

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

well there were two more extinct past tenses in the Middle Ages in Polish (aorist and imperfectum) -but I am not sure when they were used as opposed to the complex past tense (the current past tense ja byłem is a complex past tense from historical point of view)they survived a bit longer in some dialects and are testified in some old surnames but not much else (some cases endings were different in the past as well)

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


this was not a traditional alphabet - this is a list of fonts or letters which were ever used to represent the sounds of the Polish language - appart from the loss of long e(accented e) and the final equalization of long o (accented o = ó) with u and merging of the sounds h and ch with the inventory of sounds of Polish language haven't changed - just take a look at how many z forms are there in the list - these were all used to represent just the three sounds z, ż and ź at some point in time (before the crystalising of the standard)

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


Polish ortography didn't change much since the time it was more or less firmly established (somewhere in the middle of 16th century) and before that time there was not so much material written or printed in Polish

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


Czech one evolved just fine just as the Polish - the sort of rż pronounciation is an archaic feature and hardly anybody speaks that way normally in the Czech Republic

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]


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? [4]

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 [1050]


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

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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