strzyga
3 Oct 2012
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]
the new KC PZPR headquarters
They're operating in exile now
For more details, ask Polonius
the new KC PZPR headquarters
They're operating in exile now
For more details, ask Polonius
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Should UK Poles be forced to attend English language courses? [10]
Also, she says she's taking an English course at a college and pays for it herself.
Google Translate can be very treacherous.
Also, she says she's taking an English course at a college and pays for it herself.
Google Translate can be very treacherous.
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]
is it? Why?
I heard this word for the first time a few weeks ago but since then, it's been like an internet epidemic and it's used to show contempt towards PO voters. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think these are just the criteria for a buzz word.
Buzz term!What a lemming turn of phrase!
is it? Why?
I heard this word for the first time a few weeks ago but since then, it's been like an internet epidemic and it's used to show contempt towards PO voters. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think these are just the criteria for a buzz word.
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]
Who are these people?
As for lemmingi, that's a buzz term for PO supporters, mostly used on GW fora, which doesn't surprise me a bit as most of Polonius' threads directly reflect the contents of the GW news site for the day.
Andzej Sikora, Mietek Kwiatkowski, Roman Szulc, Ewa Mitra, Ala Wilk, Jan Kozłowski, Krystyna Mazur, Michalina Szewczyk, Andrzej Knot, Andrzej Szczygieł, Anna £abędzka, Kuba Bystrowski, Robert Mastalski, Adrian Knapik
Who are these people?
As for lemmingi, that's a buzz term for PO supporters, mostly used on GW fora, which doesn't surprise me a bit as most of Polonius' threads directly reflect the contents of the GW news site for the day.
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]
No place is perfect, politically or otherwise. At least you have cheap petrol in the US :)
No place is perfect, politically or otherwise. At least you have cheap petrol in the US :)
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]
Indeed. I've checked upon the electoral procedure and now I see what you mean. Well, with the principles of the American Constitution it doesn't look like it might change anytime soon. Grin and bear it or move to Poland ;)
Indeed. I've checked upon the electoral procedure and now I see what you mean. Well, with the principles of the American Constitution it doesn't look like it might change anytime soon. Grin and bear it or move to Poland ;)
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]
Having a minority government (in coalition with Giertych's party and Lepper's Samoobrona) he pushed towards earlier elections, thinking that PiS would be able to get the parliamentary majority, and lost.
What was that error
Having a minority government (in coalition with Giertych's party and Lepper's Samoobrona) he pushed towards earlier elections, thinking that PiS would be able to get the parliamentary majority, and lost.
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]
Do you mean the polls?
That must mean that some people like the Democratic candidate more, but vote for a Republican senator, and vice versa. Well I suppose that happens - you get the whole package or nothing. There's some logic to it too, certainly it makes life easier for the one who wins.
the popular vote
Do you mean the polls?
In Bush v Gore the ex-vice president won the popular vote yet lost the election I beleive.
That must mean that some people like the Democratic candidate more, but vote for a Republican senator, and vice versa. Well I suppose that happens - you get the whole package or nothing. There's some logic to it too, certainly it makes life easier for the one who wins.
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
News / Piotr Glinski - PIS candidate for PM of Poland [9]
Talk is cheap.
They might as well present their candidate for the President of the US.
100% spot on.
Talk is cheap.
They might as well present their candidate for the President of the US.
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]
Do you think it would change anything if the President was elected directly in the States? People know who they're voting for anyway.
Do you think it would change anything if the President was elected directly in the States? People know who they're voting for anyway.
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]
A senator. We have a Senate too. But the President is elected directly by the voters, not through any electoral body.
A senator. We have a Senate too. But the President is elected directly by the voters, not through any electoral body.
strzyga
1 Oct 2012
Life / Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures [390]
English is now obligatory from the age of 6, throughout the elementary and secondary education, and there are optional classes in many preschools too. In secondary schools (both gimnazjum and liceum) it's two languages - English plus another one, most often it's German, French or Spanish. Russian is not so popular nowadays although some schools still have it. So it's English from the age of 6 and then English + another language from the age of 12.
Some elementary schools have another language classes, besides the compulsory English, but it's optional and depends on the school.
prohumanum.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/raport-men-jezyki.pdf
this one is from 2005, and here you have 2010:
test.ore.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&download=387:powszechno-nauczania-jzykw-obcych-w-roku-szkolnym-2009-2010&id=33:raporty
English is now obligatory from the age of 6, throughout the elementary and secondary education, and there are optional classes in many preschools too. In secondary schools (both gimnazjum and liceum) it's two languages - English plus another one, most often it's German, French or Spanish. Russian is not so popular nowadays although some schools still have it. So it's English from the age of 6 and then English + another language from the age of 12.
Some elementary schools have another language classes, besides the compulsory English, but it's optional and depends on the school.
Anybody know or can point to a link showing the No. or % of Polish schools offering English, German, French, Russian and other (Italian, Spanish, Swedish?) foreign languages to pupils?
prohumanum.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/raport-men-jezyki.pdf
this one is from 2005, and here you have 2010:
test.ore.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&download=387:powszechno-nauczania-jzykw-obcych-w-roku-szkolnym-2009-2010&id=33:raporty
strzyga
30 Sep 2012
News / A new AWS (Poland Solidarity Movement)? [54]
It's true that we badly need a solid, center-right, economically-oriented party whose prime objective would be to facilitate small and medium sized local business, even if just as a counterbalance to PO, but Jaro is the last person to build it. PIS originally had the potential to become this kind of force but since then Kaczyński has managed to drive all intelligent and reasonable members away. Do not kid yourself, this man is a populist nut and given a choice between economic sensibility and hysterical rhetorics he's always going to yield towards the unions and Rydzyk's pensioners. And you might be right to blame him as without him the right center might have a chance to consolidate into something more sensible than the PIS of today. As it is, he's just a destructive force, luring those who might create an intelligent and competent opposition to PO and then throwing them to extreme populist positions.
I could vote for a right-centered, business-oriented party and it could do a hell of a lot of good to PO too if they had to compete with another competent force. But I'm never going to vote for anything led by Kaczyński. Not in this lifetime. And a large part of the 70% probably feel the same.
the only way for PiS to defeat PO is to get non-political experts to prepare a good plan of badly needed reforms and move more to the center. If they keep concentrating on Rydzyk, Tusk will win 3rd time, If that happens, I will never forgive Jaro, It will be all his fault that we will have terrible, anti-Polish government for another 4 years.
It's true that we badly need a solid, center-right, economically-oriented party whose prime objective would be to facilitate small and medium sized local business, even if just as a counterbalance to PO, but Jaro is the last person to build it. PIS originally had the potential to become this kind of force but since then Kaczyński has managed to drive all intelligent and reasonable members away. Do not kid yourself, this man is a populist nut and given a choice between economic sensibility and hysterical rhetorics he's always going to yield towards the unions and Rydzyk's pensioners. And you might be right to blame him as without him the right center might have a chance to consolidate into something more sensible than the PIS of today. As it is, he's just a destructive force, luring those who might create an intelligent and competent opposition to PO and then throwing them to extreme populist positions.
I could vote for a right-centered, business-oriented party and it could do a hell of a lot of good to PO too if they had to compete with another competent force. But I'm never going to vote for anything led by Kaczyński. Not in this lifetime. And a large part of the 70% probably feel the same.
strzyga
29 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]
Kondzior, how much entry fee do I need to pay to see you with my own eyes? And where exactly are you exhibited?
Women aren't grateful for the rights men granted them not even a century ago. Their lack of respect and reverence for authority, and subsequent recognition solely of raw power, renders them completely unsuitable for civilized discourse. They don't deserve equal anything because they haven't earned it, and they never will.
Kondzior, how much entry fee do I need to pay to see you with my own eyes? And where exactly are you exhibited?
strzyga
29 Sep 2012
Language / Polish word "no". Is it a slang word? [22]
There was an old joke about a policeman instructing his colleague that only the uneducated people say "no" while the educated ones use "tak".
The colleague then asks him: "And which one do you use?"
"Tak".
"That means that you're educated?"
"No".
There was an old joke about a policeman instructing his colleague that only the uneducated people say "no" while the educated ones use "tak".
The colleague then asks him: "And which one do you use?"
"Tak".
"That means that you're educated?"
"No".
strzyga
29 Sep 2012
Genealogy / Farther born in Poland and i.m looking for his birth place; Szczoczarz name information [7]
Did he change his name as soon as he settled down in another country? :)
Szczoczarz
Did he change his name as soon as he settled down in another country? :)
strzyga
28 Sep 2012
Language / kiedy i tam [14]
ale cóż = ale cóż z tego, ale co z tego
kiedy i tam = skoro nawet tam - if/since even there where the wizards live...
Zibi explained it very well, I'm just giving you alternative versions as they may help you to get a better feel of the phrase.
Widziałem w przyszłości różne cuda, ale cóż, kiedy i tam, gdzie mieszkają tylko czarownicy, nie można żyć wiecznie.
ale cóż = ale cóż z tego, ale co z tego
kiedy i tam = skoro nawet tam - if/since even there where the wizards live...
Zibi explained it very well, I'm just giving you alternative versions as they may help you to get a better feel of the phrase.
strzyga
28 Sep 2012
strzyga
28 Sep 2012
News / The consequences of a PiS electoral victory [22]
Luckily, that's impossible.
they've formed a viable coalition
Luckily, that's impossible.
strzyga
28 Sep 2012
Language / Burak or redneck? [36]
If you don't like burak, try czereśniak.
miejski.pl/slowo-Czereśniak
Polish TV film-dialogue translators regularly translate redneck as burak.
If you don't like burak, try czereśniak.
miejski.pl/slowo-Czereśniak
strzyga
28 Sep 2012
Language / Polish word "no". Is it a slang word? [22]
The best illustration on the use of "no" has been included in the exchange between Zazulka and me. Unfortunately, it has been binned, so please look in Random.
And no, it's not true that only uneducated simpletons use the word. Overuse, maybe, but phrases like "no i co?" are part of the general language and are used by everybody.
The best illustration on the use of "no" has been included in the exchange between Zazulka and me. Unfortunately, it has been binned, so please look in Random.
And no, it's not true that only uneducated simpletons use the word. Overuse, maybe, but phrases like "no i co?" are part of the general language and are used by everybody.
strzyga
28 Sep 2012
Language / oko / oczy? [4]
For the organ of sight, the plural is always oczy. Oka is used for the liquid fat on the surface of a soup (oka na rosole):
oczu is commonly used. oczów, ócz - these are correct but sound archaic, like in 19th c poetry.
ók - no such form. it's ok (nie lubię ok na rosole)
oczami - common use
oczyma - rarer, but correct
okami - for the things on the rosół
For the organ of sight, the plural is always oczy. Oka is used for the liquid fat on the surface of a soup (oka na rosole):
genitive plural forms: oczu, oczów, ócz and ók?
oczu is commonly used. oczów, ócz - these are correct but sound archaic, like in 19th c poetry.
ók - no such form. it's ok (nie lubię ok na rosole)
Also instrumental plural forms oczami, oczyma and okami.
oczami - common use
oczyma - rarer, but correct
okami - for the things on the rosół
strzyga
27 Sep 2012
News / Rest in Peace Anna Walentynowicz or is it...?! [63]
Inside the ugly red Russian coffins there could be sealed metal, military-type ones - which seems highly probable, considering how butchered the corpses were.
Or the whole red thing could be put into the Polish coffin. The Polish coffins seemed bigger to me.
She's PO so anything goes. Since when does it have to be logical?
so how did they change coffins without opening them?
Inside the ugly red Russian coffins there could be sealed metal, military-type ones - which seems highly probable, considering how butchered the corpses were.
Or the whole red thing could be put into the Polish coffin. The Polish coffins seemed bigger to me.
PiS is calling for Ewa Kopacz's head. Please someone explain how she is responsible? Please connect the dots for me.
She's PO so anything goes. Since when does it have to be logical?
strzyga
27 Sep 2012
strzyga
26 Sep 2012
Travel / Traveling around Poland - our photo stories with very personal commentary [225]
The Nadole map looks quite similar to the Warsaw subway map ;)
Ulicówka, in the north of Poland? I thought this type of villages was more characteristic to central Poland. But apparently I was mistaken.
The Nadole map looks quite similar to the Warsaw subway map ;)
Ulicówka, in the north of Poland? I thought this type of villages was more characteristic to central Poland. But apparently I was mistaken.
strzyga
25 Sep 2012
Po polsku / Gruby chłopak [8]
Kupić mu rower i odgonić od komputera. Ale w tym wieku to już bywa trudne.
Nie dawać pieniędzy na colę i podobne. (Też trudne).
Poza tym 12-latek zaraz zacznie rosnąć jak opętany i jest szansa, że to wszystko spali.
Co ona powinna zrobić? Jej syn ma około 12 lat.
Kupić mu rower i odgonić od komputera. Ale w tym wieku to już bywa trudne.
Nie dawać pieniędzy na colę i podobne. (Też trudne).
Poza tym 12-latek zaraz zacznie rosnąć jak opętany i jest szansa, że to wszystko spali.
strzyga
24 Sep 2012
Law / Child Alimony in Poland - 1700 PLN? [74]
Maybe in Britain. In Poland there's no 20% limit. And mother's income is irrelevant if she's the one providing everyday care of the child.
Maybe in Britain. In Poland there's no 20% limit. And mother's income is irrelevant if she's the one providing everyday care of the child.
strzyga
24 Sep 2012
Law / Child Alimony in Poland - 1700 PLN? [74]
for what? you're kidding, right?
I'm sure sure 400 zloty would suffice.
for what? you're kidding, right?
strzyga
24 Sep 2012
Language / Polish words with consecutive identical letters? [17]
You're right, as usual :) Somehow I didn't think of these compounds.
Actually, when you look hard enough there is hardly any letter that cannot be used in pairs.oo
You're right, as usual :) Somehow I didn't think of these compounds.
strzyga
24 Sep 2012
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]
Sorry, Pawian, no furniture made of particle board can be regarded as quality furniture. And Black Red White have all their stuff made of that.
Quality furniture from Polish producers is still exactly 3 times cheaper in Poland than in UK. UK prices of this furniture is advertised as promotion! :):):)
Sorry, Pawian, no furniture made of particle board can be regarded as quality furniture. And Black Red White have all their stuff made of that.