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Posts by Magdalena  

Joined: 15 Aug 2007 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 27 Jan 2015
Threads: Total: 3 / Live: 0 / Archived: 3
Posts: Total: 1827 / Live: 423 / Archived: 1404 		From: North Sea coast, UK
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Magdalena   
12 May 2011
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

If I ever, however fleetingly, consider the possibility that feminists might be sentient beings after all, all I need to do is remember this aggressive, rude, and highly unintelligent rant to convince me otherwise. :-/

Dear ItsAllAboutMe - it's NOT all about you, and kindly step back from my menfolk and start walking in the opposite direction. Your remarks are uncalled-for, and though you probably think you're a good conversationalist, I can tell you you're either just repeating a bunch of propaganda or, when that doesn't work, you start screaming just like the little woman you are. Can't find any compelling arguments, poor thing? It might help to

to get out more? read more? acknowledge information that doesn't conform to your viewpoint?

;-p
Magdalena   
11 May 2011
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

I'm glad you figured it out.

Not thanks to you.

3) It would be a good idea, in future, to match your quotes with the person you wish to address

That's the way it's usually done.

I would expect she would be allowed to do so, her candidacy would be evaluated using the same criteria, she would be paid the same as her male counterparts (unless she underperforms), and she would have the same chances for promotion (again, unless she underperforms).

Well I guess that's exactly what WOULD happen. So why are you up in arms over a non-existent problem then?
Magdalena   
11 May 2011
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

perhaps you need to get out more? read more? acknowledge information that doesn't conform to your viewpoint?

Is that how a sister should talk to a sister? ;->

I thought people could recognize what they wrote. Silly me.

Well, you quoted gumishu:

and what is it supposed to prove

and then started addressing me. No wonder I was confused.
Magdalena   
11 May 2011
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

didn't you just agree with Zimmy that the pay gap is somehow "fictitious" because women, as heads of households, get to spend the money that men bring home and that men pay for their dates?

1) I have been working all my life and have never seen this pay gap you speak of
2) I am as open-minded as they come, maybe that's why I agree with Zimmy
3) It would be a good idea, in future, to match your quotes with the person you wish to address
Magdalena   
11 May 2011
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

I get it - you come from a different society, what you consider your own, individual beliefs, Magdalena, are really social conventions that you grew up in.

I do believe you have confused me with someone else.
Magdalena   
11 May 2011
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

That's how it works :-)
I never felt the need to score points or identify the enemy ;-)

Boys (to little girls) are just a bunch of mud-spattered, loud, hyperactive monkeys who get in the way and will always ruin any attempts at playing house together ;-)
Magdalena   
11 May 2011
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

you will see ovens, babies, strollers, cooking pots, dolls (someone to take care of), vacuum cleaners, etc.

What about all the gender neutral toys such as building blocks, puzzles, art sets, board games? You haven't mentioned them at all. Can it be that you are as biased as you claim toy producers are?

BTW, I used to be a little girl and I can still remember how I totally LOVED playing with dolls. If you tried to interest me in cars or other boy stuff, I would just yawn. ;-)
Magdalena   
9 May 2011
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Didn't realize folks felt so slightedLOL

It would help if you sometimes actually read your own posts before publishing them. Yes, I am afraid you do often sound irritatingly patronising. There are lots of native English speakers on this forum and not one of them is so obviously in love with their own English skills ;-p
Magdalena   
9 May 2011
Language / Polish versions for English words? ! [34]

What you think about the language here? What proficiency can you hear?

The long and short vowels are not quite right, the ř š è sounds are not that accurate, I can hear a distinction between "i" and "y" which is non-existent in spoken Czech. In short, I doubt it is a Czech singing - all the clues tell me it's a Polish person with a good knowledge of Czech, a Czech philologist perhaps?
Magdalena   
9 May 2011
Language / Polish versions for English words? ! [34]

Pravopis - spelling, orthography / ortografia
Krasopis - calligraphy / kaligrafia
Životopis - a biography / biografia
Zeměpis - geography / geografia
Těsnopis - shorthand, stenography / stenografia

Some more to guess:
Mluvnice
Zákon
Přírodopis
Vlastenec

;-)

BTW - sklad is not "shop" in Czech. Obchod is. Sklad is pretty much the same as "skład".
Magdalena   
9 May 2011
Language / Polish versions for English words? ! [34]

If by chance Magdalena is reading this thread, I'd like to know her opinion on how it is in the formal and the folk Czech.

Informal Czech loves borrowings and generally uses them in a humorous or light-hearted context. Also for exaggeration. E.g. "ksicht" (Gesicht) is slang for an ugly mug; "frajle" (Fraulein) is a slightly dated informal word for an ugly and / or old lady, etc. Cédéèko or kreditka are diminutives with an affectionate overtone (as opposed to humorous). ;-)

While informal Czech (not to be confused with folk Czech, that's another kettle of fish altogether!) incorporates a ton of borrowings, formal Czech is very much a "pure" language in that it had gotten rid of lots of Latin, German, Greek, etc. loanwords in the 19th century, but at the same time acquired lots of Polish, Russian, and other Slavonic borrowings to compensate. ;-)

Can you guess what these mean?

Dějepis
Pravopis
Krasopis
Životopis
Zeměpis
Divadlo
Spisovatel
Těsnopis
Kolo

:-)
Magdalena   
9 May 2011
Language / Polish versions for English words? ! [34]

They have for instance their own Slavic root words for 'literatura', 'filozofia' and 'filologia', I simply can't recall what they are-:)

You can't recall them because they don't exist.

Use Google translate to check how wrong you are.
Magdalena   
22 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

I only meant what I said in the sense of the function of the imperative but, as we both know, it doesn't paint the whole picture by a long stretch.

Sure, understood :-)
I just wanted to point out that there are a lot of "imperative-type requests", if you will, in English as well, but because it's your native language, it's "transparent" to you, while Polish sticks out like a sore thumb ;-)

Would it sound rude in English to say e.g.: "I'm so glad you're here! Come in quick, sit down and tell me all about your new boyfriend. Have some tea and cake - I baked it just for you!"
Magdalena   
22 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

'siadaj'

Take a seat / sit down - imperative in English as well. You can pair it with "please", both in English and Polish - "siadaj, proszę". We would use the infinitive if we wanted to sound rude in Polish - "Siadać!"
Magdalena   
22 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

I can tell you didn’t grow up here.

Well, I definitely did not grow up in the States - if that's what "here" is.
I have never even been to the States.
Magdalena   
22 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

less people would give me "WTF!" look

They're hurriedly trying to figure out who the hell you are ;-)
It's rude not to respond to a friend's greeting, so they try to recall your face, but can't - the stuff nightmares are made of...

But seriously now - you are walking somewhere, in the middle of a busy city, and yet you find the time to pick random strangers out for a smile and a greeting? And you have time to stop and actually chat? Because "saying hello to people I know from sight in my immediate neighbourhood, or whom I meet when walking my dog" is a completely different kettle of fish. Polish people do that all of the time. But remember, we're supposed to be talking about strangers here.
Magdalena   
22 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Well, i thought that was totally rude of them!

If you went around asking a bunch of complete strangers how they were anywhere in the world, you would be seen as a smiling idiot. Do you seriously smile at and greet random people you meet on the streets in the US? I have come across this "Polish people don't respond to my friendly gestures" myth many times and I think it's a question of you seeing yourself as a major attraction in the Polish town / village you had graced with your presence. You think everyone must be soooo excited to see you and terribly happy to be spoken to and greeted by the great American tourist - yourself. When the locals are not impressed, you of course feel let down and irritated.

In small communities, tiny villages etc. it is of course good manners to greet people you meet, even in Poland. You greet people you share the lift with, or people in a shop / institution you are entering. Etc. But I can't imagine saying hello and smiling at total strangers in the street, it's not polite, it's actually intrusive! I've been to and lived in several countries and can't imagine that going down well in any of them.
Magdalena   
18 Apr 2011
Life / Polish folk-themed pop music? [30]

eh?

Well OK, maybe I don't have enough musical imagination to see (or rather hear) that Polish folk material could be so treated, even so, I still think that the southern branch of Slavonic folk music is much more "malleable" in this respect ;-)
Magdalena   
18 Apr 2011
Life / Polish folk-themed pop music? [30]

foreign-aping

I hate your patronising tone.

Before you start another of your "philosophical" threads, kindly listen to some actual, traditional Polish folk music and tell me how well it would lend itself to "modernisation". Because in my opinion - not very well. South Slavonic folk music is completely different - listen and compare.