Language / Polish sayings [237]

"Sąd sądem a sprawiedliwość musi być po naszej stronie" - Court order is a court order, but the justice has to be on our side.

"Są trzy prawdy: moja prawda, twoja prawda i gowno prawda" - quote of Józef Tischner, meaning: There are 3 truths: mine, yours, and bullshit.

"proste jak budowa cepa" - Easy as the construction of a flail.

"Dzentelmen to mężczyzna, który opisując kobietę nie uzywa rąk" - Gentelman is a man, who, when describing a women does not use his hands.

"Nie chcem, ale muszem" - Lech Wałęsa. - Don't want to, but have to (m after chce and musze i sort of accent made on purpose)

"I nikt nas nie przekona, że białe jest białe a czarne jest czarne" - Kaczynski - Nobody will make us believe that white is white and black is black

Life / Do Polish people have a good ear for music? [90]


Unfortunately because of the comunism in Poland for so many years we were looing up to Americans and English people that now we have a thinking way like this: "Most of things that come from our country are worse that the ones coming from the West of Europe/America"


Thats quite harsh on us... These bands are way better than Doda and stuff like that, they have something to say in their lyrics and thats good (Talking about Lady Pank and Strachy na Lachy). Recently most of famous Polish musicians are copying after artists from overseas and we have a huge mainstream.

There are some non conformist radiostations but partialy they are connected with church and stuff so no all of you might like it or the coverage is not countrywide, but for instance radio Em has a good music playing as there is not a collection of most popular songs setted up for a whole month but the guy who is making the choice of music is changing the collection everyday and plays some really good songs, but unfortunately not all Polish.