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

First of all proper English would be to use the progressive present participle: He has been living in Poznań since 2011.

Czy widziałeś/widziałaś tego niebezpiecznego mężczyznę? Mieszka w Poznaniu od 2011 roku. Dotychczas już 60 dziewcząt padło jego ofiarą.

News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]


It's all just pure electioneering not worth a hill of beans to use an old-fashion American expresion.


The Sejm failed to put the presidential veto to a vote. According to TVPI, PO was afraid PSL would not proivde enough votes and the veto would not get toppled. That would have hurt PO's image in the election mode.

It's good they didn't. The gender whim law would have provided a sneaky backdoor route leading to same-sex marriage. The law stated that trannies are free to marry anyone of whatever gender.

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What about the Constitutional Tribunal route -- that too would have delayed things until after the election?
All in all things are hotting up. The homo priest at the Vatican indirectly hurts PiS. But the coal miners' protests are aimed against the governing PO.

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Anyone know whether what Duda's time limit was for signing of vetoing the gender act? Could he have awaited until after the election?

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Do you know? And should special laws be enacted for even the tiniest minorities?


This from wikipedia: Wiarygodne dane na temat częstości występowania transseksualizmu pochodzą z krajów Europy - jest ona szacowana na 1 na 30 tys. u osób płci męskiej oraz na 1 na 100 tys. u osób płci żeńskiej[2].

What percentage or millage would that be? Was never good at maths.

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What do Grodzka-style Thai chop jobs have to do with homosexuals? The quesiton is what is the percentage of transgender types in OPoladn: .0002%? And how tiny, narrow and unusual groups should special laws be passed for? What about autistic kleptomaniacs, one-legged rugby players or blind street musicians?

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If your evalaution is correct, it is all so horribly macchiavelian! And it only reaffirms the correctness of my lifelong resolve never to enter politics -- a dirty business whose players are mainly ego-trippers, greedy bastards and crooks.

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Yes, now I recall -- it was Bejgowski turned Grordzka that submitted the proposal. Fair enough! The question is how on earth did she did get the Sejm to support it. It was the height of the summer holiday season, maybe most MPs were dreaming of getting away form it all and hastily voted to be done with it ASAP. Maybe the upały (heat wave) addled a few MP brains. What is your explanation? You know using the gender whim thing in a Polish election campaign would have been disastrous.

Life / Funeral Traditions in Poland [68]

Wypijmy za spokój duszy naszego nieożałowanej pamięci kolegi, Adama Jankowskiego. Był wspaniałym kolegą i bardzo dobrym człowiekiem. Będzie nam Adasia brak. Za spokój jego duszy!

Let us raise a toast for the repose of the soul of our late lamented colleague, Adam Jankowski. He was a great mate and a very good person and will be missed by us all. Rest in peace!

News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]


Just wondering, who on earth thought up the gender whim act if it wasn't PO and how on earth did it pass? Did MPs suddenly begin fantasising they were in Sweden or what? Even if the gender law was ethically neutral which it isn't, it is a mater of interest to such a tiny subfraciton of society that it's a wonder it was passed. Probably Palikot and his nutters had something to do with it.

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There was no referendum asking Poles if they want people to be able to declare on sa whim they're a woman without getting a chop job or man without having something sewn on. Also that issue was never raised during the two campaigns PO waged, it was pulled out of hat towards the end of the second term. The will of the nationa was never consulted.

Politics is a game - but maybe it shouldn't be. It should be a noble mission in the nation's service not just staying at the trough well beyoind all respectable limits. PO is the warm tap-water party, PiS is the party of principle: Bóg * Honor * Ojczyzna!

Genealogy / "Choroszucha" - Jewish family name? [19]


Am I correct in assuming that blagodariu is normally used with an obejct (eg blagodariu wam), whilst spasibo stands alone.
NB, ja oczeń liubliu russkij jazyk, no k sożaleniu u menia sposobnosti niet sliszkom czasto goworit'.
Jeszczo odin wopros: Wy russkij ili ukrainskij?

News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]


He was promoting what's best for the Polish nation. Do you really regard Poland as a land of libertines and degenerates? That may apply to Sweden or Holland, but surely not Poland!

Maybe the US model is worthy of emulation. Are you one of the PF racists allergic to every aspect of yankeedom?

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Au contraire, intelligent voters will see him as a man of principle who does what's right without worrying about cheap populistic popularity.


More precisely -- pressurocracy: behind-the-scenes intimidation and threats to force MPs the vote how the PO politburo wants them to.

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In your view centrists favour the pro-degenerate, sex-change and abortion on a whim agenda? Isn't it mainly the lefty, socially anarchist eggheads? There surely aren't that many of them.

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


CZAJA: from dialectal czaja meaning lapwing or pewit (wading bird species); alternative from the verb czaić się (to lurk in wait), hence the lurker.

The Csajak spelling is either a mistake or not Polish. The diagrpah cs existis in Hunagrian. Polish would have to be:

CZAJAK: The -ak usually indicates a patronymic nickname, so Czajak would be "the son of Czaja".

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Enjoyed support only in the PO-dominated Sejm. PO would never have won the past two elections if they had highlighted that degeneracy project during their election campaign. After being safely in office they pulled it out of a magician's hat. Even many PO MPs opposed it but voted the way they thought the leaderhip wanted.They didn't have the guts to pull a Gowin.

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The gender whim law was never something enjoying widespread public support. But in a sense it can be seen as a metaphor symbolising the the entire cock-eyed Church-bashing/perversion-promoting/anti-family syndrome being propagated by the eggheady, leftist, socially anarchic elite.

Genealogy / "Choroszucha" - Jewish family name? [19]

Many dzienks, spasibo & diakuju!
BTW, since I've got you on the line, what is the difference between spasibo and błagodariu?

Genealogy / "Choroszucha" - Jewish family name? [19]

Makes sense. Can хорошуха also mean a kind, nice woman as well? Is the word widely known and used in Russian or dialectal and/or archaic? Also, could хорошуха be the equivalent of what the Jews call a siksa?

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]


Is there a truly offensive term for Pole in Russian. In Polish it is kacap for Russian, whilst Rusek is belittling but not outright pejorative. How can "польский" and "поляк" be offensive? Sure, if you add some adjective such as пpoклятый and say "пpoклятый поляк". Is there no neutral term or are the Rooskies so permeated with Poliniphobia....

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

Don't the Russians also have the offensive term Poliaczyszka? I think Dostoevsky used it.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


The problem is that all these countries are guided mainly if not exclusively by their own national self-interest and do not think in terms of Slavic solidarity, We can see that everyday. Czechs are soft on Russia becuase they see some economic advanatges for themselves in that approach. Serbs and Croats are essentially the same nation and yet are at each other's throats. The current Polish-Russian dispute over who started WW2 is another example. One would have to turn the mentality of the indiivudal nations around 180° to achieve the kind of acceptance for a commonwealth project like what you have in mind. And that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

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Maybe someone had actually written a dissertation on teh "Polack joke". It is general knowledge that it was the Germans who spreade insulting remarks about Poland after the end of World War One. For instance saying that assigning Silesia (˝Sląsk) to Poland was like giving a pocketwatch to a monkey. They also coined the term "Polnische Wirtschaft" (literally Polish management or economics) to mean mismanagement, disorder and chaos. They also created derogotoary words for Poles -- Polacken and for the country itsef -- die Polackei (literally Polackland), the normal word being Polen. In recent decades German TV personality Harald Schmidt became known for his Polenwitze (Polack jokes) which potrayed Poles as dirty, drunken thieves. A typcial joke went: Visit Poland -- your car is already there. The Polack joke got a new lease of life in the US in the 1960s when it became the stock in trade of mainly Jeiwsh comics and entertainers. These include such shows as All in the Family, Rowan & Martin, Carol Brunett Show, Tonight Show and joke books such as "It's fun to be a Poalck".

History / Is there a list of those in the Polish Army during WWII? [195]


A colleague, Prof. Anna Dadlez, has written a book about her family experiences as forced exiles deported to Kazakhstan -- herself then a young child, her mother and grandmother. It may be useful to you in your dissertation: amazon.com/Journey-Innocence-Anna-Dadlez/dp/0880334118

Language / Information on Polish textbook Hurra Po Polsku [33]


To me "pastoral duties" suggest religious care. Is that part of their task?

Back to the "textbook" topic please

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


This is off topic but why was the Zastava car make scrapped? The cars built in former Yugolsvia are now called Fiat.


Will there be room in your Slavic commonwealth for non-Slavic Hungarians and Lithuanians? If so, it would have to be re-named.

Language / Information on Polish textbook Hurra Po Polsku [33]


Definitely. BTW how would you translate świetlica: after-school club, youth club, day room, day-care room, televiswion recreation room... If it was in an old people's home it could harldy be called a youth or after-school club.

One word I have repeatedly had trouble with is wychowanie and derivatives.
Szkoła powinna nie tylko uczyć ale przede wszystkim wychowywać (rear, raise, upbring, train, eduate???)
Nie powinniśmy zaniedbywać pracy wychowawczej. (?)
Wychowawca klasy is something like a home-room teacher in the US - is there a British equivalent?
Are you familiar with "Difficult words in Polish-Enlgish translation" (PWN 1998)? Fairly good as far as it goes but lacks wychowanie for one.

Language / Information on Polish textbook Hurra Po Polsku [33]


Barring someone with a speech defect or learnng impediment, that is because mostly they have eschewed, lack the circumstances or never even considered the one sure-fire method: total immersion. That means essentially cutting oneself off from one's native tongue and fraternising largely or exclusively with natives. Many expats seek out opportunities to jabber away in English with their Anglo-mates, and that is counter-productive from a langauge-learning standpoint.

To some extent that can be achieved at the Berlitz School which provides 6 hours or more of total immersion a day where it is forbidden to speak English even duing lunch. But it is rather pricey from what I've heard.