Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

Few loose thoughts, which popped my mind while reading this, are:

1. Oh tell us why in Kaczyland few years ago we old continental Poles were uncreative as well??
2. The last traditional Polish thing which hit the world was footbag 7 years ago ;)
3. Could you name few things which Poland in e.g. 1930s "gave" to the world?
4. You've probably another American who thinks that our grandmathers were wearing folk dresses, lol.
5. Yep, probably Poles are inferior to other cultures... Let's plead to ban all bungee, skateboarding, breakdancing, kebabs and KFCs and let's all eat pierogis and play palant (Polish cricket) instead ;DDD

Polonius tell us how would you imagine perfect Poland (I mean way of living). What people should do in their free time in your perfect Poland? Pray?? ;D


We would have our own famous products (not necessarily cars) but the rapid privatisation and racy inflation of the break of 80/90s killed whole Polish industry.

Life / $3,000-$4,000 a month - would we have enough money to live in Poland? [273]


I know ppl who were renting a flat and had cats. It depends on landlord.

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]


Do you really think that he has ever visited Poland? What is more - do you really belive that Poland was ever like he describes her?? O_o

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]


What a bs you write! You don't know anything about Poland. Please stop that nonsense...

To others: How about not wasting your time for pointless and not down-to-earth discussions? Why to feed troll?


I'm young and I'm downbeat and negative :)

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]


Should be rather Polish and ashamed.
There are many things in Poland which I don't like as well as many young people don't.
Note that "glorious history" of Poland is a matter of past and the thing which people should be proud of are the modern times... but I don't see many things to be proud of in modern times.

- schools sucks
- culture sucks
- quality of life sucks
- politics sucks

More I'm older more I'm dissapointed.

For instance I hate that there were no president of modern Poland that would not make an embarassing bloop.

Love / Nature of Poles - the relationship of Polish families [7]


No. It's individual trait of abused families. It means that something bad happened in your family and no one want to speak about it loudly.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Can I watch it somewhere? ;D

Genealogy / Just found out I'm Polish! [45]


Tell her what are the disadvantages of being a Pole

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


I remember when my friend was turning 18. She came to a pub with friends yo celebrate in the day of her birthsday and guess what! They (the pub staff) did not let her to drink untill midnight! That's true! ;DDD

News / Polish teenager gives birth live on British TV [15]


There are subtitles.
Oh she just used few k-words, no big deal... I felt really sorry to see how much she suffers.



Just look what things were shown 82 years ago:
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IvDEPq2rBaQ
move to 2:40


Don't be a facist. You don't know those people and their story.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


IS is just teasing you and you all took it too serious. But now you see how an ordinary Polish born PF user feel when need to repell stupid statments about Poland. It's like discussing with Harry, he always wants stupis proofs for obvious things...

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


I remember that someone was saying that Poles don't have own culture because everything which Poles consider as their own unique culture is more or less simillar with culture/traditions of other Central and Eastern European countries.

I don't remember who said it. Maybe Delphi, maybe Harry, maybe Fuzzy...

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


exactly.

Imagine that in the USA they would be shocked that 17 year old can drink and it's acceptable...

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


In Poland she is not and I'm not sure if giving/proposing an alcohol to unadult is not a law offend.
There is a right in Poland that person under 18 is not allowed to drink alcohol and everyone should stick to it. It's not GB where the drinking age is 16... It's just about abiding the law.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Haha, strange that you said that... Please don't congatulate me - your the last person I want to congartulate me...


no I'm too young to know communism and too old to believe in Church ;)))

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Poles are cunning. They value something which is called cwaniactwo (street smartness, slyness). They are brought up by the school with the romantic idea of patriotism but grow up to be oppostunists as this is what they are taught at homes. In Poland ethics and competence is not a merit. People just look on achievements, rarely on a way of achieving. They are completely mistrustful to each other. They see a trap and a trick everywhere. They are not willing to congregate for a greater aim. They are passive and look for other to fight for their rights. They rarely smile

It's quite sad but this is the way I see Poles and I guess many of mt fellow countrymen will agree with me.

History / Esperanto - an effort by a Pole ... [122]


There is also a Roosvelt street in the place where I live ;D

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Actually I would really enjoy if some people said that Poles are like Germans. Germans bring positive associations while Poles not necessarly.


Btw. do Irish speaks Irish on daily basis?


Some call it whiskey, some call it whisky ;)

But being serious now Irish culture is pretty distinguish and I wouldn't mix up it with British.

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]


But certainly we all can agree that -wicz surnames are/were more common in eastern parts of Poland :)

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


That one I also never heard...
I'm from central Poland.

What about chłopaki and chłopacy? Is it true that both words are correct?

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


There are other examples. I just wanna show that such mistakes are quite frequent. I heard it many times that's why I memorized wrong grammar form.

When there was a tvp kultura short animated movies series about common Polish language mistakes there was an example with sweter that people allegedly say "swetr"... I never heard anyone to say "swetr". So maybe it works this way that in some regions somemistakes are more frequent than in other? How do you think?

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]


Lithuanians call him: Adomas Mickevièius. But maybe... I don't know. What I heard is that wicz names are surnames given to Ormians who settled on Polish territories.

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]

I feel imbecyle ;)

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


Ok I see I shouldn't pass matura, hehe

As a proof it's not just me who is an illiterate idiot ;D :


spec.pl/uroda/pielegnacja/sauna-jak-z-niej-korzystac-poradnik

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]

really? where's the logic and consistency?

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


maybe...


Shouldn't it be "nie napijesz się szklankę mleka?"


So in negative we drink the glass? ;)

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


ok. but napiję się kieliszek wódki sounds also weird.


That should be applied then to "kieliszka case" because I've checked in google and many people write kieliszka as well as kieliszek. Strzyga is right - her justification sounds really logical. Still I hear more times szklanki, kieliszka if used in such sentence than szklankę mleka:

- napiłam się szklanki ciepłego mleka z miodem
rather than:
- napiłam się szklankę ciepłego mleka z miodem

So as you see even Poles make gramatical mistakes ;)

Language / Declensions, prepositions and pronouns [16]

youtube.com/user/usenetposts

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


That sentence sounds ok in colloquial language but is grammatically uncorrect. You will see many mistakes made by Poles which are a result of wide spread for years errors which found their place in colloquial language and are well rooted there.

But it's still weird that she told you that "napiję się kieliszek" is correct - it really jars on the ears...

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]

wypiję kieliszek koniaku
napiję się kieliszka koniaku
wypiję filiżankę kawy
napiję się filiżanki kawy

if in your book is napiję się kieliszek koniaku then there is a mistake your book.