Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]


I'll buy you a beer if you know how we call 'ziarna słonecznika' in Świebodzin and surroundings if you answer without googling. :P


That's a humorous way to say "I'm in", but frankly such phrases to be made up on the fly and do not have permanent meaning.


Yes, but I think it is more often used in terms of online games, I'm doing ustawki with my friends to play Left 4 Dead :P


We don't say it's 'k', we say it's neither 'g' nor 'k'. Unless you pronounce the same sound in 'tygrys' and 'także'

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]


Stylówa - another Varsovian fugly creation not used in the greener lands of western Poland.
Has "namówiłeś mnie" shifted its meaning recently? It's always been "you convinced me to (...)"
That word is more often use in context of online games. :P

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]

Do you pronounce the same sound in 'tygrys' and 'także'?

History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]

Sorry, I didn't mean that that organization did that, I meant mass media doing that.

History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]


Even ignoring those 10% who were acting out of their free will, you have mass crimes on the system level. Death camps were organized by the state/army and mass genocides commited on nations of Eastern Europe, our most valuable people were murdered first. Then you have organizations like Bund der Vertriebenen on the forefront of Polish-German relations, repeatedly labeling the German death camps as "Polish camps", the propaganda that only Jews were murdered (though this can be blamed more on Jews) and the subject of WW2 still stirs up a lot of emotions.

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]

The sound isn't stressed so you can't tell if it's 'g' or 'k'. 'K' in "tak' sounds a lot harder, but you shouldn't pronounce it as 'g' either.

History / Russians 'tortured to death' in Polish camps? [58]


Are you kidding me? <10% of people behaving like wild animals is a huge number, <0,1% and we could talk about the army holding some standards.

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]

TBH the distances there are huge though, so it's not really that suprising. We cen't get this stuff right in our tiny country, I can't the nightmare of connecting Russian cities.

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]


Again with your Varsovian dirt. We here definitely do not pronounce it with 'p', though not exactly with "bł" either.

"Garnki" czy "garki"? Odwieczne pytanie...

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]

Not only you Varsovians don't speak correct Polish, but you spread your nasty language all over the rest of Poland since you control TV, radio etc. Example - Monika Olejnik pronounces "włANcza" while on air <- a typical Varsovian attempt to destroy beautiful Polish language

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


Are they that bad (esp., compared to Polish roads, not German)? I was in Moscow once, but went there by plane and the Moscow ring was quite impressive, but I wasn't further from Moscow.

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]

The Varsovians speak terrible Polish though, in the western Poland it's much, much better. But the difference is in grammar and style, not pronunciation.

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


Where do you live? In the western Poland kwas = LSD


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Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]


There is no different slang pronunciation of words though and there are only a few regions where people pronounce stuff differently (actually only one - Podhale... Ślązacy and Kaszubi claim to have different languages :P), it's not an issue!

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]

All these issues are caused by people though, not alcohol itself. I am never aggressive when drunk, never hit any of my ex girlfriends when drunk etc. People who did such things should be punished for it, their wives should leave them.

On top of that, you can't drink in public places in Poland and I don't know why you flipped it into an alcohol vs smoking discussion.


It's banning smoking in public places.

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


Quite simple - if that my hobby or other activity causes discomfort or may cause discomfort to other people, at least I should ask if it's OK to do it in their presence or wait until I'm alone altogether.

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]

Not really. I don't care if you smoke at home, as long as I don't have to breathe the smoke.

Poland should definitely not become a model for other countries. Economic growth is still mostly fueled by a cheap workforce.

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]

I don't. If smoking becomes a necessary physiological activity for you, you are the one who screwed yourself, not anyone else. You should not make others suffer because of that.

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


LOL I don't know, I don't care. It's better to have smoking out of public places, though :)

News / Poland-EU: Positive and negative features? [45]


Best law ever!

Language / Collection of learning resources for learning the Polish language [129]

HI Veronika,
I don't want to attack you or anything, but B1 after 4 years of studying? Aren't things going a bit too slow?

Language / Adjective endings and masculine-personal in the Polish language [22]

Our explanations aren't exactly compatible. :D But I think there's no encyclopedia definition to the issue at hand, a lot of depends on your intuition here moreso than strict rules.

Language / Adjective endings and masculine-personal in the Polish language [22]

I thought about the issue and came to the following conclusion:
Chcieć goes with dopełniacz if you could swap any of the following words and the meaning would remain unchanged: pragnąć/żądać/życzyć sobie etc. (basically what the rule above states)

However, there might some phrases that are implied, but are not actually spoken/written and if the implied phrases go with biernik, then going with biernik is also correct.

I'll take your above example. I'll insert implied phrases in square brackets [ ]
Pani chce czysty sklep. <- It might imply that she wants to possess a clean shop:
Pani chce [kupić] czysty sklep.
Pani chce [mieć] czysty sklep. etc.

Pani chce czystego sklepu. <- this grammar construction might imply that she already possesses a shop and wants it to be clean. It'd be equivalent to:

Pani życzy sobie postrzątania sklepu.

Other examples:
Czy chcesz [więcej] tortu? [genitive/dopełniacz]
Dziewczynka chce [zjeść] czekoladę. [accusative/biernik]
Czy chciałaby pani [napić się] herbaty? [genitive/dopełniacz]
Chciałabym [napić się] soku pomarańczowego. [genitive/dopełniacz]

I hope this helps a little bit. :)

Travel / Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk and Krakow - Five Polish Cities in Google Street View [17]


And you're from Berlin? For shame.

News / EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania [150]

French invasion on Germany? I thought you were somewhat serious, but now I see you're more of a joke character here. No one would call a single provocative strike an invasion. On September 12 1939 both UK and France decided not to invade Germany that year and to wait instead. And no, I won't play an armchair strategist and make detailed plans of the allies' invasion, it was possible for them to gather sufficient forces to overwhelm Germans in the west and stop the war right in its tracks.

Poland might still have ceased to exist, but that's another matter.

next off topic post earns a timeout

News / EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania [150]

Almost all German resources were tied up in Poland. It's a huge distance from western Poland to western Germany, by the time they'd regroup they'd lose a lot of strategic points, German war machine wasn't in full throttle yet in 1939, they wouldn't be able to sustain both fronts then - keep in mind that the Ruhr region (the biggest industrial region) would be instantly in allied hands, they weren't receiving oil and gas from Norway etc. Germany wasn't prepared to fight on both fronts, luckil;y for them, they didn't have to.

News / EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania [150]

Poland is the most yellow on that map = we are the purest race in the world LOL

I never threw personal insults towards you or anybody else here. Stop making **** up. You have clear anti-Polish bias though, seeing how you spin absolutely everything concerning Poland in a negative way.

UK could have done a lot more than they have. First of all, they could have encouranged France to actually fullfil their obligation and launch invasion on Germany. Western Germany was pretty much undefended, Berlin would have been reached in 2 weeks most likely. Then, support France with logistically (food, fuel) and military (send those few divisions they had, concentrate navy on around bigger German ports etc.). You won't tell me these things could not have been done and in retrospective that a lot of people, time and resources wouldn't be saved. The war would be over in 1939, but what happened cannot be undone.

Language / Adjective endings and masculine-personal in the Polish language [22]

I won't discuss your code, but I'm pretty sure this result is not correct.


Chcieć goes with dopełniacz (kogo? czego?) and the correct sentence would be:
Pani chce czystego sklepu.
Otherise everything seems fine. Nice sentence generator :)

Scratch that I'm not sure anymore. I think chcieć can go both with dopełniacz and biernik, nie chcieć goes with dopełniacz only though.

Language / Polish idioms - rural people [4]

"na chłopski rozum" springs to my mind.

News / EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania [150]


It was a Soviet-Lithuanian treaty. Soviets captured Polish territory, gave it to Lithuanians. Soviets lose the war, Poland naturally wants to regain all its territories prior to the war. Lithuania, as an ally to the side that lost the war, should give back the territory. It's that simple. You can't appear on a war theater, capture a territory and claim to be neutral in that war.


Better to lie and minimize bloodshed than to have a full blown war.
And yes, UK betrayed Poland. Article one of the Polish-UK agreement:
"Should one of the Contracting Parties become engaged in hostilities with a European Power in consequence of aggression by the latter against that Contracting Party, the other Contracting Party will at once give the Contracting Party engaged in hostilities all the support and assistance in its power."

Is dropping leaflets over German cities all UK could muster at the time? I don't think so.
France neglected their obligations even further at they were supposed to launch offensive on German territory within two weeks of German aggression on Poland.