History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


oh, please - can't you remember the atmosphere at school where noone was better than his pals - there was little violence in schools - look what is going on in schools now with violence even against the teachers - look at the situation where some children go hungry to schools and the segregation it produces when giving out meals in school cantines

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


yes they were bought,, i don't if there were market prices for flats but you needed to save for a flat which most working couples could afford (waiting for a flat was another thing though and it sometimes laster for a good couple of years - it depended on lots of things - in our case (we got a flat from local Housing Cooperative (Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa)) there was no bribery involved - we received a flat in 1981) - lot's of things were better under communism - like safety on the streets (much less crime) - safety of jobs


but the housing system worked somehow, new flats were built - I was seeing it with my own eyes

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


enkidu oversimplifies things - and there was free market of used things - we bought an old Fiat 126p for the money we have earned growing strawberries (which is a lot of hard work) - there was a lot of free market in Poland actually for a communist country: like ice cream shops, florists, private bars etc. there were private car mechanics too, lot's of private services.

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]


hehe this one's good :)

robiła babcia na drutach, przejechał tramwaj i spadła ;)

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]


tuberculosis is not much affected by pollution from what I can gather - and there are anti tb jabs in Poland

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]

what about your rent pawian, or the council tax??

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]


the real thing that is a true menace is not some still elusive crisis but very real inflation which is two digit for poor people - the whole method of calculating in Poland is screwed and does not reflect the true inflation (especially the food prices) - we are constantly paying more for lower quality products

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

berni ask yourself where do you put Czechs, Slovaks and especially Sorbians (I guess you know who Sorbians are) - are they Eastern Europeans or something else

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]


East Prussia is no longer Germany jon :P

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]


jon - is Germany central or western Europe ?

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]


this is being oversensitive - and it implies that Eastern Europeans are somehow inferior

News / The quality of Polish media coverage [54]


if Rzeczpospolita was an independent daily and not government's cronie's possession it would have been just an article and no shot in the foot

News / The quality of Polish media coverage [54]

you have definitely misunderstood Varsovian - explosives on the plane and TNT on the wreckage can be two different things

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


Chałupowski with Ch pronounced like 'H' and ł (pronounced as 'w')

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


maybe you are right - but to me it is perfectly clear that our monarchs have lead to the disasters that befell Poland

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

the whole idea that we had to have kings was a bad idea - Saxon dynasty in Poland was one huge mistake - and Leszczyński kingship was good - why they didn't come up with a president-like figure for government serving terms and not lifelong rule is beyond me? - many follies of our so called kings could have been avoided this way

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Dembińska is a place-name derived surname - the place name is probably Dembiny or Dembina which is a non-standard form of 'dębina'/'dębiny'

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

don't say Sigismund Vasa didn't have ambitions in relation to the Russian throne and that the Swedish-Russian alliance was due to the dynastic policies of the mentioned Sigismund Vasa (regaining the control of the Swedish crown)

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


it was the Sigismund Vasa policy making - he wanted to plant his son a tsar of Russia we have paid dearly for his ambition because the offensive wars with Muscovy created hatred among the Russian population against Poles

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

Potop one of the best military films in history

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


no pawian, it was only pospolite ruszenie - these were not experienced soldiers - and their leaders betrayed Poland

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


you forget about another deluge that was ongoin while the Swedes struck - it was the Polish-Russian war and the Russian troops went very far west (including Wilno) - and that's why Poland was devoid of defences

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

there is no need to be sorry - it was so long ago

actually it was our leadership that was responsible for wars with Sweden namely the Vasa dynasty who ruled Poland

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

the war brought famine and partisan warfare

History / Use of the word "lord" in Polish. [11]

the word "lord" is and was used to describe a British aristocrat and is higly doubtful that it was used prior to 1607 - Polish - British contacts where not that frequent in those times and little was known in Poland about British cultures, there was also no tradition of noble titles in Poland before (except for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania where princes were present)

News / Poland's PiS = suspicion & fear? [70]


would you call SLD government before the PiS-lead coalition as a corrupt system (you sure know what Rywin commission was)

if so then fighting for political power sometimes is a direct fight with corrupt systems, my belief is we still live in a corrupt systems and I have reasons to believe this.

Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]

kotku mój (kotkooh mooy) or mój kociaku (mooy kochakooh)

Language / Będę kupowała/będę kupić [18]


you must have seen będę kupować because będę kupić does not exist in Polish as Zibi has stated

there is no real difference between będę kupował and będę kupować

but surely there is a difference between będę kupował and będę kupowała - it;s about gender of the speaker as you probably know

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Frau Lebensraum

Language / How to pronounce "y" in Polish? [28]


snd Polish "a" sounds like Italian 'a' in words like pasta, basta, mangiare - simple