Life / Polish cartoons for kids [43]

The series called ''Włatcy móch'' (''Lordz of flys'') was't intended for kids, but gained huge popularity among them, most like the South Park case. Some episodes were great, some just plain stupid.

As for the alleged violence in ''Bolek and Lolek'' - fighting between siblings is normal (especially boys), I think, so it's kinda realistic, but the point is they always come to an agreement at the end of episode. It's nothing compared to violence presented in, for example, ''Tom & Jerry'' or ''Donald Duck''.

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


''Będzie mama kołysać.''

Law / Prostitution in Poland, is it legal? [24]

Prostitution in Poland is not illegal. By that I mean they cannot put a person in jail for being a hooker. Procuring and running a brothel is illegal, but this is a fiction since there are plenty of so called "agencje towarzyskie".

Law / Prostitution in Poland, is it legal? [24]


It depends how you define ''illegality''. It's not prohibited, but not regulated by law.


Yes, but (thanks to loophole) only if the authorities can prove that they force or encourage in some way women to have sex with customers.

Actually, many of said agencies (not saying that all of them!) are connected with mobsters and human trafficking.
And even if the police shut down one of them, another ones pops up quickly in their place.

(To moderators: Please merge my messages)

I've just remembered some funny, true story I have read about in newspapers few years ago:

A Polish woman returned from Germany, where she earned a hefty amount of money, working as a prostitute (brothels are legal in Germany).
Polish Urząd Skarbowy (tax office) wanted her to pay back taxes, but it caused a huge problem: since prostitution is not regulated by Polish law, it's not a subject to taxation. So she said she won't pay.

I don't know how it ended, though :(.

Language / RUDE word form conjugation + communicating on facebook in Polish [15]


There is no such word as "pierdalać", probably you meant ''pierdolić'' (which can mean anything, from having sex to talking nonsense), or ''wpierdalać'' (''to tuck in", ''to devour''). Or ''opierdalać (się)" = ''to slack off''. Or maybe a dozen or other words ;).

Basically, vulgar vocabulary is not a good example to learn Polish grammar from, because different forms (used in varoius context) can mean VERY different things and rules of grammatical conjugation do not always apply ;)


For example, ''zapierdalać'' can mean ''to work very hard'' or ''to run very fast''... but ''zapierdolić'' means ''to steal, to snatch (something)" or ''to hit someone".

"Napierdalać" can mean ''to hurt" (as in ''łeb mnie napierdala" = ''my head hurts"), or ''to do something fast'', or ''to play music loud'' etc. while ''napierdolić się'' means ''to get drunk''.

I could go on with a long list of these examples and it would be only a tip of an iceberg.

It's not even like in case of ''uczyć'' (to teach) and ''uczyć się'' (to learn, to study), where there is some connection between those two verbs.

When we're talking about vulgar words, anything goes ;).


More or less, you are right.
''Co (ty) odpierdalasz'' means something like "What the f*ck are you doing", "What's your problem", etc. It definitely doesn't sound well in future tense.

Language / RUDE word form conjugation + communicating on facebook in Polish [15]


Yes, in terms of grammar, she was right. But the point is no one in Poland uses "pierdalać" ("pierdalam", "pierdalasz" etc.) as standalone words.

All forms of "pierdalać", at least according to my knowledge, always come with prefixes, while ''pierdolić" can be used without them.

And for clarification: "odpierdolisz" is definitely future tense (I misread the original poster's question).

Ex: "Odpierdolisz się ode mnie, czy nie?" "Will you get the f**k off of me, or not?"

Language / RUDE word form conjugation + communicating on facebook in Polish [15]


There's no '-' before 'pierdalać' in the original question, but let's not get into such hair-splitting ;).

Back on topic - here's a gem from a cult classic Polish movie that illustrates the ambiguity of word 'pierdolić'.

Watch from 1:33 - I couldn't find that scene alone:

youtube.com/watch?v=fmljn3e-ux0

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



I think it's more like ''mama nie chce cycy dać'' - mama doesn't want to give [you] tits.

(Don't be offend, breast feeding is a normal thing).