Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


No - it couldn't have been. The Cyrillic script has only been developed after X century (and made popular even later, something like XII century). Before Cyrillian script was developed, Cyril and Methodius developed Glagolitic script - which was based on Greek script (although some of the characters are taken from Oriental scripts: Hebrew, Samaritan and Coptic)

Interesting link: ancientscripts.com/glagolitic.html
Texts in Glagolitic are apparently the oldest written Slavic texts.
Glagolitic probably wouldn't have even been introduced on the territory of Poland (due to being formally developed only in IX century) as Poland took Christianity from Rome (with the Latin script) in X century and the oldest scripts found are Latin.

I couldn't find much about scripts prior to Glagolitic and pre-Latin - were we illiterate back then?
Or, rather than that - based on the fact that Poland was on the "Amber Route" - we were likely to use combination of Latin and Greek characters (as most of the amber traffic came from those directions)?

Language / What were the first Polish words and phrases you have learned? [63]

My sons first Polish words (i don't count 'mama') were 'boli' and 'babcia'

Life / My experience in Poland 15 years ago as an American trying to live and work there. [167]

Plk, you are wrong. He can always buy a property and/or retire in Poland, as long as he has enough money not to have to work or use social welfare and support himself. Whether it's a good or bad move it's a different story.

Life / My experience in Poland 15 years ago as an American trying to live and work there. [167]

The only thing i found in the net is ebok that you have to pay for
escapeartist.com/e_Books/Poland/relocating_to_poland.html

next best thing is to speak to Polish embassy.

Life / My experience in Poland 15 years ago as an American trying to live and work there. [167]

Guys, this is semantics. Bottom line is that many people retire outside their own country and I don't think Polish law is that much different than i.e. Spanish. You can easily retire in Spain, Italy, South Africa etc. as long as you can prove you have enough money, usually specific amount. If the guy worked all his life in USA he probably has assets he can liquidate, if he is determined enough. Anyway, best place for his questions is Polish embassy.

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

Haha - and I have some Zimbabwe dolars :) a note of 100 000 000 000 000 :) (one hundred trillion)
I wonder how much it's worth :)))

Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

You are with wrong crowd... Or maybe the ones you think are 30 are in fact in their 40's ;-P

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Circumcision is not practiced routinly ANYWHERE in Europe. What a lot of savages, the English, Germans, French, Italians and others. Whole lot of them!

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Experienced both. No difference whatsoever.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


Likes and dislikes of American women are totally irrelevant for Polish men IN POLAND. Fuzzy - OP's question was "Why circumcision is not practiced in Poland". And why should it be? It's not routinely practiced anywhere in Europe.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

No, you are the one that brought the argument of American women into equasion, not very revant for most of Polish men who are unlikely to ever meet one.

Genealogy / I love Asiatic influences in Polish peoples' faces [59]

Pawian, I have no idea where you get those pictures from, but they look nothing like Poles I know. There are probably some Poles that have Asian ancestry, as we were raided many times (especially the east part of Poland) but this genotype is definitely not predominant.

Genealogy / I love Asiatic influences in Polish peoples' faces [59]

Haha, Marek, looks like I was wrong about Polish ancestry ;-) mea culpa!

Life / Anyone recognize this lullaby? 'Ah-ah-ah Ju ju spach...' [22]

This will probably be 'Aaa już już spać, będzie mama kołysać' but i don't recognise the song

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]


I do the same :) otherwise money escapes from the purse ;-P


Just like my 3-year-old :) (not necessarily with beer...)

Language / I would like to make a collection of beautiful and/or funny polish quotes [30]

One I use a lot :-D
"Szanuj szefa swego bo mozesz miec gorszego"
Respect you boss 'cos you can have worse ;-)

Life / Izabela? - Advice with Polish name for a girl [36]


I beg to disagree. How the hell can you know what is your child going to do in the future? Naming babies with prospective jobs in mind??? Are you for real???

Life / Izabela? - Advice with Polish name for a girl [36]

I absolutely agree with you that name should be unique, memorable but not freakish. But in example you gave it's more a matter of form and not the name. And to be honest I'd rather have plain name than a weird one. Another thing is that if you are working for internatinal company you probably noticed that a name that seems unique to you, might actually be very plain and common in another country. Tshepo or Bongani might sound exotic in USA or Europe, but are quite popular in RSA.

Life / Polish sentimental ballads [38]

This is also very nice - Little Elf, about unexpected love and losing that love. All on example of little elf appearing from nowhere in the cold and wanting to stay for few moments...

youtube.com/watch?v=BDwzlX_PcKs

Life / Polish sentimental ballads [38]


You right, I didn't realize such thread exists - otherwise I would have posted it there :)

News / Does Polish hotel have right to turn down Americans and Israelis? [73]


South Africa, Botswana and Namibia are also good examples... If I remember correctly India and Nepal also had different fees for tourists and for locals. This is common practice in developing countries, but completely unfair and unjustified in Europe, I haven't seen places in Poland doing this, so I'm hoping that this hotel is the "rotten apple". Accommodation in Poland is NOT cheap. We paid less in Spain, Italy or Greece not long time ago.

Language / Funny/strange/deviant words in the Polish language [35]

[Moved from]: What are your favorite lines in Polish movies?

Polish movies (especially those from communist era) have very specific kind of humor.
Have you got any favorite lines that you could share with the rest of us?
One of my favorites is "Kopernik Byla kobieta! ("Copernicus was a women!") from "Seksmisja".
Other good one: "Londyn? Nie ma takiego miasta Londyn! Jest Lądek, Lądek Zdrój! (London? There is no such town as London. There is Lądek, Lądek Zdrój!) - this is from "Miś".

Travel / Do Poles like to hunt? Hunting in Poland. [205]

Superkill, if you like hunting, come to South Africa. This is hunting paradise.

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [98]

2 milion parasites... Loking at this number you would think that some 10 milion Poles liv in UK

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

PoleInVegas, I don't even know whre to start to respond that's how wrong you are. Poles don't speak English? Poles don't have acess to internet and don't know what the options are??? Get the hell out of you hole! Internet in Poland cost around 5-10 Usd/p month, and I assure you that 99 % of Poles have access to it and know how to use it. Most intercontinental flights are via European hub, so in fact even if you don't speak English (as some of the senior travelers) you actually don't need to, as there usually will be someone in the interchange airport that will accompany you to your gate to catch connecting flight. Most of flights now are code share, i'm surprised that pilot does not know that. Aircrafts HAVE TO meat ar least European standards to be able to fly, again - a pilot does know that? Poland is a border of Shengen zone, that explain presence of army I guess? Anyway, these are Shengen, not Polish security rules. Jeeeez, I'm a very moderatw person, but you got my adrenaline going!

By the way - I do not like LOT. Extremely patronising attitude and crap service, that I agree. But your reasoning is very very far from the truth. The thing is that is a national airline, and as such it will exist, because it's subsidised. Same as in other countries with crappy airlines...

Language / Burak or redneck? [36]

They are buraki. Lumpenproles will have element of patologia. I would say that the are kind of borderline, but this is a comedy show not really dealing with patologia.

Genealogy / My father is half Polish and half Ukrainian is this a common mix in Poland and Ukraine ? [11]


Why should they???

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [124]


How long ago??? The only counter where you have to ask for anything is deli counter and kiosk??? Pretty much everything else is on shelves for you to put in your basket and pay?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Back to the dark ages? NEVER


What about a compromise? What about a country where church does not dictate what to do, right of a child is still protected IF is does not create danger to women's life?

In fact, I think the current law works just fine, it just has to be followed correctly and provisions within the law need to be made for mothers that don't want to keep the baby for "economic" reasons.

By provision I mean shelters where they can in dorms stay until they give birth, are fed well enough and after birth they can decide if they keep the baby or give it up. Let's say they can leave baby in the shelter up to 3 months and if they don't come back after that, their maternal rights are taken by default. This still does not solve the issue of "inconvenient" pregnancy, but addressed the major concern. There should also be a surrogacy law, allowing people to adopt baby while a woman is pregnant. I even think this does not need to be free (I know that's controversial) - but any money exchanged has to be done after the baby is born and full adoption takes place.

The reason why many women decide to have abortion is fear for the future. If you remove that, and to certain extent address inconvenience aspect, number of abortions should decrease.

But you can't simply create law that does not allow abortion, this will simply push the problem to the black market to deal with (as it is now).

Love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]

Yes, Polish people are not the most confident. This is actually a big problem - most of my cousins have decent education, some speak quite good English and they don't seem to get anywhere with it. Sometimes I think that the only reason why I'm not like that is that I left Poland for few years very early and basically had to fend for myself. So I had to learn how to be confident.

A lot of Polish young adults still live with their parents - that's not good for confidence either as Polish parents (especially mothers) are very patronising.