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Joined: 13 Mar 2012 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 29 Mar 2014
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Posts: 187 		From: Warsaw
Speaks Polish?: native
Interests: history

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sofijufka   
31 Dec 2012
News / The quality of Polish media coverage [50]

1jola: ts Uważam Rze weekly had become the best selling weekly in the country.Impossible.

you are right - it's impossible, because there is only pseudo "Uważam Rze" left
sofijufka   
2 Jan 2013
History / Ukrainian-occupied Eastern Poland [135]

like Bandera, perhaps?

kyivpost/content/ukraine/ukraine-nationalists-celebrate -banderas-birth-anniversary-318350.html
sofijufka   
3 Jan 2013
Language / Polish/Ukrainian words similarities [209]

U mnie jest" doesn't strictly indicate possession as in Russian but is sometimes used where you would normally use "have" in a Western European language. "Czy tylko u mnie jest problem?" could be understood as in "Is it only me that there is a problem with?"

nooo.... you are wrong. In polish you ought to say: Czy tylko ze mną jest/masz problem?
sofijufka   
4 Jan 2013
Life / Heroes/heroines of Poland's pop culture [27]

what about Radamenes from "Siedem źyczeń/Seven wished"?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wishes_%28TV_series%29

ups! wishes!
sofijufka   
13 Mar 2013
Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

......Malls here (and yes there are three that I know of in Rszesow)

Are you living in Rzeszów? Which mall are you talking about? Krakowiak? Frac, Real, Tesco, Leclerk, Biedronka, Lidl? Alma?
sofijufka   
29 Mar 2013
History / A Polish Town in Turkey. Who Knew? [9]

My great.... great[?] grand father had a shop in Adampol. Before II World War my grandfather received a letter from polish ambasador of Turkey, that he inherited this shop, but he passed it to the Adampol people... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonezk%C3%B6y

About Adampol, read a book of Jerzy £ątka: Oskarżam arcyksięcia Rudolfa [I accused a Kronprtinz Rudolf] and "Carogrodzki pojedynek"
sofijufka   
24 May 2013
History / How different would WW2 turned out if Poland accepted Hitler's offer [215]

OK - arrow-head is better?
Spearhead [grot} - : the sharp-pointed head of a spear
arrowhead [grot] - : a wedge-shaped piercing tip usually fixed to an arrow
in polish: grot - a tip, usually sharpened, added to an arrow or spear to make it more deadly or to fulfill some special purpose.
sofijufka   
12 Jun 2013
News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]

The evidence is staring you in the face - the man rose from AK membership to a glittering career in the PRL, including getting his children to become film stars. That just didn't happen to anyone.

it's not truth - how about Henryk Gołębiewski filmweb.pl/person/Henryk.Golebiewski
and other child-actors of Janusz Nasfeter or Ślesicki?
sofijufka   
12 Jun 2013
News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]

a very desirable residence

this "residence" was a flat in a nearly destroyed during a war town house that Rajmund and other residents renovated by themselves.
sofijufka   
6 Jul 2013
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Polonius3: The Fourth Republic will soon be back to finish the job it started in 2005 -- this time with a solid mandateTKM!

TKM? It was about AWS, wasn't it?
sofijufka   
18 Jul 2013
News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

A man who went to prison for opposing the commies (unlike your beloved DuckBoy).

he was never in prison, he was only interned, signed his allegiance and was released, backed up on it, were interned again for one or two months

[quote=Harry]After it came out that he'd worked for the SB, how many articles did he write for GW? Oh yes, one single book review.[quote]

are you sure?
sofijufka   
26 Jul 2013
News / Demolish Poland's Palace of Culture? [55]

Hmmm.... after Piskorski installed a clock faces on it - i like it more. I'm living on Żelazna street so I could see it from my window
sofijufka   
3 Aug 2013
Life / Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures [390]

He was a very good person. All positive.

no, he wasn't - my great-uncle had a good word for almost everyone, but about Geremek could say only "the rest is silence"... He disliked people who snitch... One of his friends was arrestested by SB after returning from France, and it could be only Geremek who accused him
sofijufka   
10 Aug 2013
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

KOBOS: that was the Old Polish name for a goatskin bagpipe, one of the old peasant instruments; in modern Polish it's called a kobza.

no, it's not - kobza is a string instrument
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobza
A goatskin bagpipe's name is "dudy" or - in Tatra mountains - "koza"
sofijufka   
18 Aug 2013
Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]

another dictionary for Harry

drawsko.freehost.pl/ok/30maja/Sandra/slownik.html

busia - babcia

babimojszczyzna.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=88

stara-wisniewka.manifo.com/gwara

from net: monweg.blog.onet.pl/2009/01/20/babcie-i-dziadkowie/

Danuta Dejter "Test na dobrą Babcię"

Baba, Babcia, Babusia, Busia, Bubcia, Buleńka,

Babica, Babsko, Bunia, mała Babuleńka, Babka, Babisko, Anioł,

Słoneczko na niebie, - w którym z tych określeń poznajesz Babciu siebie?
sofijufka   
18 Aug 2013
History / If Poles were antisemitic, would they ...? [240]

I have read all of King Maciuś I, Bankructwo małego Dżeka {Little Jack bancruptcy}, Kajtuś czarodziej [Kajtus the sorcerer}, Dziecko ulicy[ Child of the street], his memories
sofijufka   
8 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

I know one guy who claims to be poor because his business only earns 2500zl a month

ONE guy - I know about 50 people from Warszawa, Lublin, Olsztyn, Sandomierz, Gliwice, Szczecin, Rzeszów, Tyczyn, Zakopane - who's salary is about 1200 zł a month - and they are happy because they earn anything at all. Try to find a job if you are 50 or 50+... And my brother's student's in Rzeszów are happy if they could find jobs in Biedronka, Tesco or Jasionka airport...
sofijufka   
2 Oct 2013
History / capitulation of Warsaw Uprising [16]

Two years ago died my great-aunt, a member of AK. A week before the capitulation of Warsaw Uprising she gave birth to her only son...When with other warsovians she were going with her babe to Pruszków a young Euro-German steal a golden cross from her neck. and her coat.. My friend's great-uncle was burned alive with other wounded insurgents by "Nazis".

Gloria victis!
sofijufka   
3 Oct 2013
History / capitulation of Warsaw Uprising [16]

I hope your cousin survived?

Yes, my cousin survived. My great aunt couldn't fight - she was heavily pregnant, but she was a member of AK Section II: Information and Espionage. Her husband [also survived] was fighting at Śródmieście.

"Euro-German" means that this scum was a German from Wehrmacht, not from Kaminski's RONA
sofijufka   
3 Oct 2013
History / capitulation of Warsaw Uprising [16]

And not whenever something happens, come up with "some years ago we were fighting, the rest of Europe was not, and because of this bus tickets are expensive in Warsaw"

Did I said so? Really?