gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
you have a really nasty sense of humour Harry :P
you have a really nasty sense of humour Harry :P
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
Harry, the thing is there are also other (and multiple) question marks around the alleged suicide of Andrzej Lepper - including the stoppage of the TV picture in his office a good half an hour after the time of his death interpolated by the cororners
Harry, the thing is there are also other (and multiple) question marks around the alleged suicide of Andrzej Lepper - including the stoppage of the TV picture in his office a good half an hour after the time of his death interpolated by the cororners
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
GHB tends to cause rapid unconsciousness at doses above 3500 mg - from the wikipedia article
and if someone wants to simulate suicide a lower dose can surely be used that can act a bit slower if you make the victim take it (say under gun-point)
btw its only sodium salt that is this salty and GHB can be made as a potassium, calcium or magnesium salt
btw some other substance may have been used and not the GHB that is also not easily tested or determined or for different reasons not really targeted in blood sample testing performed post mortem
GHB tends to cause rapid unconsciousness at doses above 3500 mg - from the wikipedia article
and if someone wants to simulate suicide a lower dose can surely be used that can act a bit slower if you make the victim take it (say under gun-point)
btw its only sodium salt that is this salty and GHB can be made as a potassium, calcium or magnesium salt
btw some other substance may have been used and not the GHB that is also not easily tested or determined or for different reasons not really targeted in blood sample testing performed post mortem
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
I am no expert to any extent - but I wouldn't be surprised some chemicals cannot be really tested after 3 days after the death
then again the 'rape pill' is administered orally (in drinks for example) - but I have no idea if it is easy to test for it in an autopsy or if it quickly degrades
also Harry - read this article through - it shows that the common 'date rapa pill' the GHB can be difficult to determine in a post mortem because it is normally produced in human body and can accumulate in blood after death so as to render it impossible to state if the accumulation is natural or caused by application before the death
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-hydroxybutyrate
Cool. Although one would presume that that is entirely normal (as the people involved almost certainly don't work weekend, it's not as if their customers are going anywhere).
I am no expert to any extent - but I wouldn't be surprised some chemicals cannot be really tested after 3 days after the death
then again the 'rape pill' is administered orally (in drinks for example) - but I have no idea if it is easy to test for it in an autopsy or if it quickly degrades
also Harry - read this article through - it shows that the common 'date rapa pill' the GHB can be difficult to determine in a post mortem because it is normally produced in human body and can accumulate in blood after death so as to render it impossible to state if the accumulation is natural or caused by application before the death
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-hydroxybutyrate
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
An excerpt - Przeprowadzona w poniedziałek sekcja zwłok nie wykazała śladów udziału osób trzecich
Lepper died on Friday the 5th - and as the article says the autopsy was made on Monday the 8th - enough?
even this Pavulon thing is difficult to check in the autopsy - I don't know about other substances but I wouldn't be surprised there are substances that are not really looked after in poisoning tests but have certain psychoneurological activity
An excerpt - Przeprowadzona w poniedziałek sekcja zwłok nie wykazała śladów udziału osób trzecich
Lepper died on Friday the 5th - and as the article says the autopsy was made on Monday the 8th - enough?
even this Pavulon thing is difficult to check in the autopsy - I don't know about other substances but I wouldn't be surprised there are substances that are not really looked after in poisoning tests but have certain psychoneurological activity
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
kampanianazywo.pl/relacja/slynny-prawnik-sekcja-zwlok-leppera-o-wiele-za-pozno-wideo/
kampanianazywo.pl/relacja/slynny-prawnik-sekcja-zwlok-leppera-o-wiele-za-pozno-wideo/
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
Lepper's autopsy was done 3 days after the body was found allegedly
Lepper's autopsy was done 3 days after the body was found allegedly
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
have you ever heard that some chemicals cannot be verified by autopsy especially when it is done late - you must have heard of the Pavulon cases in Poland
have you ever heard that some chemicals cannot be verified by autopsy especially when it is done late - you must have heard of the Pavulon cases in Poland
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
have you ever heard of 'rape pill' ???
have you ever heard of 'rape pill' ???
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]
the end price of a bank loan in Poland is much higher than 7 per cent - be it a cash loan (which are more expensive) or a mortgage - your typical consumer goods credit in 2008 was more than 15 per cent after credit insurance and the base rates were very similar to the current ones
I have no idea what the cost of borrowing is for inidividuals but with base rates at 4,5% then I guess around 7% once you chuck in mortgage insurance etc.
the end price of a bank loan in Poland is much higher than 7 per cent - be it a cash loan (which are more expensive) or a mortgage - your typical consumer goods credit in 2008 was more than 15 per cent after credit insurance and the base rates were very similar to the current ones
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]
In Poland they charge almost everything they can ;) - I have a inteligo internet account and I have to pay a fee for the debit card - well there actually are personal accounts that do not have charges on the basic things including a debit card but they require a stable monthly input that is higher than my incomes (it's about 2000 PLN for 'Konto za 0 złoty' in PKO BP)
In Poland they charge almost everything they can ;) - I have a inteligo internet account and I have to pay a fee for the debit card - well there actually are personal accounts that do not have charges on the basic things including a debit card but they require a stable monthly input that is higher than my incomes (it's about 2000 PLN for 'Konto za 0 złoty' in PKO BP)
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
I think 120 is enough to break your neck when falling off a chair with a rope on your neck - one thing about those tables is - they are made to be sure that the neck breaks (its the spianal cord not the neck that breaks actually) - as people are different it is made so everyone's neck breaks (I don't think even 5 per cent error is not acceptable) so I think for the most population it is far less than 165cm lenght of rope for 90kg weight necessary to break your neck - I don't know if a 30 cm fall from a chair can break a neck of a 90kg man though (some sources I have just read on the internet say it can)
It could do it I suppose if you weighed more than 300 kgs
I think 120 is enough to break your neck when falling off a chair with a rope on your neck - one thing about those tables is - they are made to be sure that the neck breaks (its the spianal cord not the neck that breaks actually) - as people are different it is made so everyone's neck breaks (I don't think even 5 per cent error is not acceptable) so I think for the most population it is far less than 165cm lenght of rope for 90kg weight necessary to break your neck - I don't know if a 30 cm fall from a chair can break a neck of a 90kg man though (some sources I have just read on the internet say it can)
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
it says something more interesting - Maksymiuk says there are no traces of Lepper fighting on the rope - and you would expect someone suffocating on the rope to be fighting
Nothing in the article talks about broken necks
it says something more interesting - Maksymiuk says there are no traces of Lepper fighting on the rope - and you would expect someone suffocating on the rope to be fighting
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
The investigation prosecutor's office, which explains the circumstances of the death of Andrzej Lepper still not clarified whether the death was involved third parties. According to a preliminary version of the former deputy prime minister killed himself by hanging on the rope . However, policies aides do not believe he committed suicide .
The investigation prosecutor's office, which explains the circumstances of the death of Andrzej Lepper still not clarified whether the death was involved third parties. According to a preliminary version of the former deputy prime minister killed himself by hanging on the rope . However, policies aides do not believe he committed suicide .
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
the thing is if he was standing on a chair and kicked it away it would break his neck - it curiously didn't - he didn't even move when hanging (as you would expect of someone suffocating)
Andrzej Lepper did not go to the trouble of erecting a gallows and scaffold ensuring that he would break his neck when the trapdoor opened. Instead he went for the DIY death by hanging - crushing his windpipe and blood choking himself to death - groovy
the thing is if he was standing on a chair and kicked it away it would break his neck - it curiously didn't - he didn't even move when hanging (as you would expect of someone suffocating)
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
it's not flyers that took their lives
as for curious suicides - the one of Lepper is a pretty curious one - the autopsy: 3 days after the death - spinal cord not broken - the guy supposedly was hanging 30 minutes before he died - he took his pills in the morning
I'm not surprised. Given that Smolensk exposed a culture of sloppiness, half-heartedness and general incompetence - I'm not surprised that military guys saw suicide as a realistic option.
it's not flyers that took their lives
as for curious suicides - the one of Lepper is a pretty curious one - the autopsy: 3 days after the death - spinal cord not broken - the guy supposedly was hanging 30 minutes before he died - he took his pills in the morning
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]
in Poland property was seen as the best investment by many for quite a time perhaps not to the extent it went in Britain where property was the only good paying investment for quite some time (was in England at that time - stock market had very low returns (though it wasn't shrinking yet)) - this and the convinction that it's going to last forever (the price growth) is the recipee for a bubble
now in Poland the bubble is not as big as in Britain because people just had no such money as in Britain - and remember one thing prices won;t go down quick unless there is a crash in the economy for one simple reason - people don't want to think that they will have to part with the returns they hoped for - now there is still the question of renting - I repeat myself but again rent prices for your average flat will not go down considerably in the coming year or 2 perhaps even 3 - untill a serious trouble in the economy (we are on the track to that trouble though) - I have no idea what are your typical returns from buying and then renting property at the moment but porperty investment may still seem safer than bank accounts (though rather not new built flats with high monthly bills)
in Poland property was seen as the best investment by many for quite a time perhaps not to the extent it went in Britain where property was the only good paying investment for quite some time (was in England at that time - stock market had very low returns (though it wasn't shrinking yet)) - this and the convinction that it's going to last forever (the price growth) is the recipee for a bubble
now in Poland the bubble is not as big as in Britain because people just had no such money as in Britain - and remember one thing prices won;t go down quick unless there is a crash in the economy for one simple reason - people don't want to think that they will have to part with the returns they hoped for - now there is still the question of renting - I repeat myself but again rent prices for your average flat will not go down considerably in the coming year or 2 perhaps even 3 - untill a serious trouble in the economy (we are on the track to that trouble though) - I have no idea what are your typical returns from buying and then renting property at the moment but porperty investment may still seem safer than bank accounts (though rather not new built flats with high monthly bills)
gumishu
10 Jan 2012
Life / Fat People in Poland? [161]
this is not my personal experience but I have read accounts by Americans who lived in Poland and returned or Poles who lived in America that most sweetened things in America are TOO sweet - inlcuding your daily orange juice, and if you think about bread - bread here is not sweatened at all - if bread in America is sweetened then it's a strange thing
eg the fact that US beef is so 'tender' compared to other countries could be due that it is full of hormones (which are forbidden in many other countries).
this is not my personal experience but I have read accounts by Americans who lived in Poland and returned or Poles who lived in America that most sweetened things in America are TOO sweet - inlcuding your daily orange juice, and if you think about bread - bread here is not sweatened at all - if bread in America is sweetened then it's a strange thing
gumishu
9 Jan 2012
News / Polish People STILL denied US Entry [96]
the reason is pretty simple - Mexican kids born in the US will be Democratic voters - Polish kids in the US will more likely be Republican voters (even though they both are worth each other)
the reason is pretty simple - Mexican kids born in the US will be Democratic voters - Polish kids in the US will more likely be Republican voters (even though they both are worth each other)
gumishu
9 Jan 2012
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]
a 26 square metre studio flat, no gas, a bigger village 30 km from Opole and the price almost trippled in 8 years
gumishu:
oh, sorry - one magnitude too much (I mean cut one zero in both prices) :) - my mistake
So it was possible to buy an apartment for as little as 33,000zl at the peak of the market? So much for the great bubble!
oh, sorry - one magnitude too much (I mean cut one zero in both prices) :) - my mistake
So it was possible to buy an apartment for as little as 33,000zl at the peak of the market? So much for the great bubble!
a 26 square metre studio flat, no gas, a bigger village 30 km from Opole and the price almost trippled in 8 years
gumishu
9 Jan 2012
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]
oh, sorry - one magnitude too much (I mean cut one zero in both prices) :) - my mistake - you know I sometimes still count in old millions when 33k PLN was 330 millions in old money
gumishu:
my mum bought a studio flat in a very small place in Opole region in the year 2000 for 120 000 PLN and we sold in in 2008 for 330 000 PLN
So you got in the region of 10,000zl per sq m? That's pretty much Warsaw prices!
my mum bought a studio flat in a very small place in Opole region in the year 2000 for 120 000 PLN and we sold in in 2008 for 330 000 PLN
So you got in the region of 10,000zl per sq m? That's pretty much Warsaw prices!
oh, sorry - one magnitude too much (I mean cut one zero in both prices) :) - my mistake - you know I sometimes still count in old millions when 33k PLN was 330 millions in old money
gumishu
9 Jan 2012
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]
yes it is true that flats cost much less outside big cities - but they gained value on the same scale - my mum bought a studio flat in a very small place in Opole region in the year 2000 for 120 000 PLN and we sold in in 2008 for 330 000 PLN
in the minor citites prices are far far lower.
yes it is true that flats cost much less outside big cities - but they gained value on the same scale - my mum bought a studio flat in a very small place in Opole region in the year 2000 for 120 000 PLN and we sold in in 2008 for 330 000 PLN
gumishu
9 Jan 2012
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]
no harry - your typical block-of-flats appartment gained more than 150 per cent from say 2003
Wroclaw Boy:
200% + capital appreciation within two years on specific inner city developments, thats a bubble.
Those developments would very much be the exception and not the rule.
200% + capital appreciation within two years on specific inner city developments, thats a bubble.
Those developments would very much be the exception and not the rule.
no harry - your typical block-of-flats appartment gained more than 150 per cent from say 2003
gumishu
9 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]
there is a surprising amount of suicide deaths around the Smoleńsk catastrophe - many among military personnel - of which the mainstream media are rather shy to report
there is a surprising amount of suicide deaths around the Smoleńsk catastrophe - many among military personnel - of which the mainstream media are rather shy to report
gumishu
9 Jan 2012
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]
rents won't go down drastically for some time until there is serious cooling of the economy with because of first price hikes (with much lower salary rises to acompany them) and second a bit delayed job losses that will follow the price hikes - and the price hikes are pretty inevitable (with the perspective of the zloty losing more of it's value but not only that) - rents will not go down drastically in 2 or 3 years because there just aren't millions of empty flats awainting to be occupied (though there is a considerable problem for developers to sell flats already)
commercial and residential in Poland are two completely different things. Rents haven't gone down since drastically in this market either.
rents won't go down drastically for some time until there is serious cooling of the economy with because of first price hikes (with much lower salary rises to acompany them) and second a bit delayed job losses that will follow the price hikes - and the price hikes are pretty inevitable (with the perspective of the zloty losing more of it's value but not only that) - rents will not go down drastically in 2 or 3 years because there just aren't millions of empty flats awainting to be occupied (though there is a considerable problem for developers to sell flats already)
gumishu
8 Jan 2012
Life / Automobiles vs. Pedestrians in Poland [77]
yes - this is actually a very good remark an a very good piece of adive (or even advice :)
what do you do if you need to go to the neighbouring village on the same road - go through the mud of the field roads?
yes - this is actually a very good remark an a very good piece of adive (or even advice :)
gumishu
8 Jan 2012
Language / Words with subtle differences in Polish language (or are they complete synonyms?) [8]
jajo - is a scientific and generic term for an egg
jajko is the colloquial word for typical eggs and also for testicles (though testicles are rather caller plural jaja or jajka)
jaje is an archaic form of the word 'jajo' only encountered in not very recent literary works especially poems
praca - a generic and formal word for 'work', also in the sense of 'workpiece'
robota - is a colloquial form but it has a notion of something that is at least slightly unwished for
światło is light
światłość is lightness (światłość is very much limited to spiritual or religious termniology)
more or less
zdjęcie is your generic and formal term for a 'photograph' but it has even more generic meaning that typical photography
fotka is a very colloquial name for photograph and it is simply short of 'fotografia' - 'fotographia' is mostly limited to typical photography (and not X-rays for example unlike zdjęcie) fotografia appart from being a name for a photograph is sometimes also used as a name for 'photography'
as książka is a diminutive form of księga the latter is something rather big, księga is also the word used for title of stories like in 'Księga dżungli' 'The Jungle Book' (R. Kipling) or 'Księga przysłów polskich' (The book of Polish proverbs) - also księga is sometimes used as a subdivision of a novel sometimes replacing chapters sometimes containing chapters
książka is a generic term
btw in other Slavic languages the unsuffixed word 'kniga, kniha' remained the generic word for book so the Czech 'knizka' is something smallish
królik - a rabbit
zając - a hare
truś/trusia is a sort of a pet name for rabbits (for hares less often because hares are rarely seen or kept as pets or a farm animal)
especially truś is used to call rabbits by farm housewifes for them to be fed
trusia is also part of a phrase 'siedzieć (cicho) jak trusia' remain silent and not to move - it is in relation to hares behaviour - they can remain sitting until mere meters from a person approaching or sometimes they can literally start before your very feet (not in the open though - in some vegetation even high grass)
biuro is generic (also formal) for an office - but in the physical sense rather - the office as a function or an institution is 'urząd' in Polish
gabinet has a notion of an office room that is used by a single person (some important person in an institution or a person who works for himself/herself like a writer, free lance researcher etc) while in a 'biuro' lots of people can actually work at the same time
gabinet is also the term used for a room where a doctor sees or treats his patiens - as an extrapolation gabinet is also used in more abstract sense as place where doctor sees his patients or even as a business entity of medical type (but rather a small one)
however biuro can also have a meaning of a company that is restricted to an office site - 'biuro matrymonialne', 'biuro projektowe'
this rather a grammar issue
jeść><zjeść the former is imperfective the latter perfective (simple non prefixed forms are typically imperfective but it's not an iron rule and there are imperfective verbs that have your typical prefixes (the prefixes are usually prepositions sometimes altered a bit)
if you haven't been taught what imperfective and perfective are then perfective is used when an action has been finished, completed, or just ended or is supposed to be finished in the future - as such perfective is never a thing of the now - so no perfective forms in the present tense
as you probably guess imperfective is simply more generic thing without determining if the action or the process have been completed - all verbs in the present tense are imperfective - if you want to say that some to actions or process is going to happen (or happened) simultanously with another the one (the longer) that you relate to is going to be in imperfective (Marek zadzwonił jak jedliśmy z mamą obiad. Marek phoned when/as we were dining with mum)
sometimes differences are nuancical though
jadłem obiad - I was having a dinner zjadłem obiad - I had a dinner (but it's not that clearcut in actual use and you can often hear 'Jadłeś (już) obiad?' in a sense of 'Have you (already) had your dinner'
now a the issue of the so called frequentative
frequentative is a form of a verb that is used to show something happens in a repeated manner, typically, numerous times, from time to time - it can be very roughly explained as a difference between the English present simple and present continuous (very roughly because it is not always the case) - there are more or less strict rules how frequentatives are created in Polish (you have to take into account phonetical laws and irregularities of major verbs that spring from frequent use)
jem - I am eating jadam - I eat
jem śniadanie - I am having a breakfast śniadania jadam o szóstej - I have breakfast at six
(the thing is 'jem' can be often used instead of 'jadam' and definitely in this case - however 'jadam' cannot be used to mean 'i am eating')
the frequentative can be created (typically) equally from a perfective or imperfective verb (verb form) - so you've got 'jeść - jadać' but also 'zjeść- zjadać'
the thing is a frequentative of a given form is always imperfective (however a further perfective can be created of that imperfective frequentative with a prefix (pozjadać)) - so zjadać is imperfective an can be used in the present tense
Właśnie zjadam ślimaka - I am eating a snail right now (rather than I am having a snail right now) - but again 'jem' can be used here instead of 'zjadam' (as a form with a more general meaning)
jajo/jaje/jajko
jajo - is a scientific and generic term for an egg
jajko is the colloquial word for typical eggs and also for testicles (though testicles are rather caller plural jaja or jajka)
jaje is an archaic form of the word 'jajo' only encountered in not very recent literary works especially poems
# praca/robota
praca - a generic and formal word for 'work', also in the sense of 'workpiece'
robota - is a colloquial form but it has a notion of something that is at least slightly unwished for
światło/światłość
światło is light
światłość is lightness (światłość is very much limited to spiritual or religious termniology)
more or less
# fotka/zdjęcie
zdjęcie is your generic and formal term for a 'photograph' but it has even more generic meaning that typical photography
fotka is a very colloquial name for photograph and it is simply short of 'fotografia' - 'fotographia' is mostly limited to typical photography (and not X-rays for example unlike zdjęcie) fotografia appart from being a name for a photograph is sometimes also used as a name for 'photography'
księga/książka
as książka is a diminutive form of księga the latter is something rather big, księga is also the word used for title of stories like in 'Księga dżungli' 'The Jungle Book' (R. Kipling) or 'Księga przysłów polskich' (The book of Polish proverbs) - also księga is sometimes used as a subdivision of a novel sometimes replacing chapters sometimes containing chapters
książka is a generic term
btw in other Slavic languages the unsuffixed word 'kniga, kniha' remained the generic word for book so the Czech 'knizka' is something smallish
królik/zając/truś/trusia
królik - a rabbit
zając - a hare
truś/trusia is a sort of a pet name for rabbits (for hares less often because hares are rarely seen or kept as pets or a farm animal)
especially truś is used to call rabbits by farm housewifes for them to be fed
trusia is also part of a phrase 'siedzieć (cicho) jak trusia' remain silent and not to move - it is in relation to hares behaviour - they can remain sitting until mere meters from a person approaching or sometimes they can literally start before your very feet (not in the open though - in some vegetation even high grass)
biuro/gabinet
biuro is generic (also formal) for an office - but in the physical sense rather - the office as a function or an institution is 'urząd' in Polish
gabinet has a notion of an office room that is used by a single person (some important person in an institution or a person who works for himself/herself like a writer, free lance researcher etc) while in a 'biuro' lots of people can actually work at the same time
gabinet is also the term used for a room where a doctor sees or treats his patiens - as an extrapolation gabinet is also used in more abstract sense as place where doctor sees his patients or even as a business entity of medical type (but rather a small one)
however biuro can also have a meaning of a company that is restricted to an office site - 'biuro matrymonialne', 'biuro projektowe'
# jeść/jadać/zjeść/zjadać
this rather a grammar issue
jeść><zjeść the former is imperfective the latter perfective (simple non prefixed forms are typically imperfective but it's not an iron rule and there are imperfective verbs that have your typical prefixes (the prefixes are usually prepositions sometimes altered a bit)
if you haven't been taught what imperfective and perfective are then perfective is used when an action has been finished, completed, or just ended or is supposed to be finished in the future - as such perfective is never a thing of the now - so no perfective forms in the present tense
as you probably guess imperfective is simply more generic thing without determining if the action or the process have been completed - all verbs in the present tense are imperfective - if you want to say that some to actions or process is going to happen (or happened) simultanously with another the one (the longer) that you relate to is going to be in imperfective (Marek zadzwonił jak jedliśmy z mamą obiad. Marek phoned when/as we were dining with mum)
sometimes differences are nuancical though
jadłem obiad - I was having a dinner zjadłem obiad - I had a dinner (but it's not that clearcut in actual use and you can often hear 'Jadłeś (już) obiad?' in a sense of 'Have you (already) had your dinner'
now a the issue of the so called frequentative
frequentative is a form of a verb that is used to show something happens in a repeated manner, typically, numerous times, from time to time - it can be very roughly explained as a difference between the English present simple and present continuous (very roughly because it is not always the case) - there are more or less strict rules how frequentatives are created in Polish (you have to take into account phonetical laws and irregularities of major verbs that spring from frequent use)
jem - I am eating jadam - I eat
jem śniadanie - I am having a breakfast śniadania jadam o szóstej - I have breakfast at six
(the thing is 'jem' can be often used instead of 'jadam' and definitely in this case - however 'jadam' cannot be used to mean 'i am eating')
the frequentative can be created (typically) equally from a perfective or imperfective verb (verb form) - so you've got 'jeść - jadać' but also 'zjeść- zjadać'
the thing is a frequentative of a given form is always imperfective (however a further perfective can be created of that imperfective frequentative with a prefix (pozjadać)) - so zjadać is imperfective an can be used in the present tense
Właśnie zjadam ślimaka - I am eating a snail right now (rather than I am having a snail right now) - but again 'jem' can be used here instead of 'zjadam' (as a form with a more general meaning)
gumishu
7 Jan 2012
History / Mother tongue in Poland - acccording to 1931 census. [174]
you should love it :)
wikitravel.org/en/Tok_Pisin_phrasebook
lol....I love stuff like that..;)
Cheers Gumi!
Cheers Gumi!
you should love it :)
wikitravel.org/en/Tok_Pisin_phrasebook
gumishu
7 Jan 2012
History / Mother tongue in Poland - acccording to 1931 census. [174]
btw did you know that in Papua people call a car 'bird-he-go-long-way' ;)
that's my point though........Wheras English grammar has been much simplified since then.
btw did you know that in Papua people call a car 'bird-he-go-long-way' ;)
gumishu
7 Jan 2012
History / Mother tongue in Poland - acccording to 1931 census. [174]
no it wasn't because of political reasons - many Slavic nations had very different histories but most of them kept their complicated grammatical features - you may not be familiar with this but the simple thing that Slavic does allow a lot of freedom in the word order offers a lot of nuance meanings with the use of the same words - an flectionless declensionless language like English requires in contrast quite a rigid word order to tell the subject (the doer) from the object - both approaches have their merits and their trade-off - there are things much easier expressed in English than in Polish (English has a lot of very generic terms which Polish lacks) but there are also things that are much easier expressed in Polish than in English
no it wasn't because of political reasons - many Slavic nations had very different histories but most of them kept their complicated grammatical features - you may not be familiar with this but the simple thing that Slavic does allow a lot of freedom in the word order offers a lot of nuance meanings with the use of the same words - an flectionless declensionless language like English requires in contrast quite a rigid word order to tell the subject (the doer) from the object - both approaches have their merits and their trade-off - there are things much easier expressed in English than in Polish (English has a lot of very generic terms which Polish lacks) but there are also things that are much easier expressed in Polish than in English