UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

Guys...

Let me show you some song:
MENELE
It's five in the morning, I'm taking a stroll
'Cause the hangover won't let you sleep
And you wanna puke.
And I think over and over how to get me a quarter
I smoke a fag, oh what ache in my head.
An' the sun slowly emerges from the night
Sleepy streets are slowly waking up
I stop, surprised, and I watch the people
Who are running to factories to earn their bread.

But we menele don't need to work
Let the villagers and tractors do their job
We celebrate birthday all our lifetime
If vodka is there, we don't need to eat.
We are hanging around shops for lengthy hours
There someone always throws in some cash
Won't he? Then we'll terrorize him
And he'll give us his last grosz.

There's nothing in the flat I might sell
What's left are two glasses, a table and a stool
The sleeve torn out off my last jacket
And the ill liver made my belly swell.
My Mummy a pensioner helps me vigorously
And tells me constantly I should stop drinking
"Go and get work, listen to your Mom
Be human, you cannot live that way!"

But we menele don't need to work...

nk.art.pl/portowi_lovelasi/pl_menele.mp3

The above song is decidedly not made by Brits and it describes quite popular phenomenon in Poland called "Menele".

In all fairness, though, my brother-in-law often uses this simile:
-- To be drunk as a Brit on a stag party in Cracow
;-)

Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]


Have you ever tried "pierogi ruskie" but those made really good?
One of my faves, few people can make them right, surprisingly, good chefs know how to make those.

(Yes, I know you refer to "yellow" cheese... Wouldn't be good in pierogi).

The article linked by PennBoy denies the good taste of ogórkowa. Poor author, got his soup made wrongly. "Meat base"... It spoils zupa ogórkowa totally. Zupa ogórkowa is one of few vegetarian Polish soups. No meat.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


English is not Danish.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


I think you greatly oversimplify this. What about Normans, Romans and so many other nations playing their role in the development of English? Especially the Normans?

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

Which does not change the fact the British and Americans can perfectly understand one another speaking "English" but the Danes speaking Danish and English speaking English won't understand one another.

What is the message you want to send?

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


Did you say all Angles expatriated to the British Isles and the language spoken today there is Anglese?

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

Still don't get your message but what do I know?

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Where Johnny had had "had had", "had" had been the right answer.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Girls were better than I ;-)


No, all of us had 6 "had", count, please.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

I understand the "book" sentence but after having sorted it out in 50%, I was still left with too many words.


No, pay attention: My "had" sentence was different from yours, probably wrong, still makes sense to me.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]


There are no winners, them are all losers... :D

The sentences of yours and Marynka were probably correct by the author's intention.
Marynka got the "book" sentence right! I though it should be a single sentence? Ay, a comma and we are there! Bravo!

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Seanus, could it be we had had some language-barrier in the "food" thread? It seems to me when you say the adjective "Polish" you only mean the original concepts or products of Poland. In Polish, we use the adjective "polski" for anything that is made in Poland, too, despite of the origin of the idea of the product. If I say, "Polski Fiat", I'm not saying Fiat cars were conceived or designed in Poland, If I said "Polish Fiat" you would probably correct me and said Fiat cars were Italian. Am I right? If yes, I should say: "Heinz here is Polish-made ketchup" and there would be no confusion, right?

The question is vital since the use of such adjectives appears to me one of the major "translator's false friends", so I'd better be assured.

Then:
Where Johnny had had had had, had had been the right answer.
Is such sentence wrong? Johnny had had selected had had while had had been the right answer...
Isn't the problem ambiguous here?

Finally: Are we being discouraged to use prepositions at the end of sentences? Make me sure of it.

Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

The brick of cigarettes at the airport will you cost more than in the city. Trust me.

Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]


Meaning you won't complain next year.

Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]


This is simply the name we Poles do not particularly like. The English name is Warsaw.

Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

I made myself no problem with Warschau since I was more interested in what you had had to say about the roads, Recee ;)