Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]


I like black humour:
Wystawił żołnierz głowę z okopu i coś mu do łba strzeliło.
Wszedł żołnierz na minę i się rozerwał.

Alkohol to wróg! A wroga trzeba w mordę lać!

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

Now get this: A qq spadek

UK, Ireland / Ad from my UK newspaper today : not worth a zloty [16]

Polish bank notes:

Polish coins:



- all bank notes and coins MUST have an eagle with a crown - old PRL ones had an eagle without a crown
- no coins in current circulation are made of pure aluminium or silver or have a nominal higher than 5 zł (coins with higher nominals are only struck in silver or gold for collectors/investors and nobody sane would use them to pay in everyday transactions, since the intrinsic value of precious metal they're made of is much higher).

I read of someone tricking a shop assistant into accepting this 30 lat prl silver coin here - its nominal is 200 _old_ złotych, its (numismatic) value is about 35 new zł.

Language / How should "Polish" be written? Maybe Polski? [27]


Fix'd

Language / Indirect/direct speech in English and Polish. [4]

Well, uncle google says that direct speech is quoting what someone said with quotation marks. Indirect - just 'reporting' without them.
Direct speech in Polish is similar to English: Powiedział: 'Nie mówię po polsku' / He said: 'I don't speak Polish'.
Indirect speech in Polish retains the tense of the original expression:
(direct with past tense) Powiedział: 'Nie mówiłem po polsku' (c.f. He said 'I didn't speak Polish'.).
(indirect with the same past tense) Powiedział, że nie mówił po polsku. (c.f. [I guess in Englis it would be:] He said he hadn't spoken Polish)

Guess is as simple as that. Ju just have to remember that this grammar construction is different in Polis and English (easier said, than done).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is how I see it.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Leave your guns in the US. As a foreigner you would need to ask for a permit from Polish consulate to bring your gun over to Poland just to have it taken away from you by the Police for deposit (unless you'd be working as some guard at US embassy or the like). In practice only hunters can have hunting weapons (you have to be a member of PZ£ow. - Polish Hunters' Association). Acquiring weapon other than hunting one is very difficult for a 'civilian'. However, you can become a weapon user (as opposed to an owner) by joining your local shooting range (strzelnica). Having a gun without a permit in your house is illegal and you would most likely would get some holidays at taxpayers' expense in one of Polish penitentiary resorts. You can have an airgun or a 'hand gas thrower' (ręczny miotacz gazu obezwładniającego), but you need to register them with your nearest Police station.

Wapons & Munitions Act (in Polish)
cietrzew.lowiecki.pl/prawo/prawo_3.html

Language / Polish versions for English words? ! [34]


Since when these are Anglicisms?

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

sascha
I wrote about PICTURES. Learn to understand what you read.

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]


You shouldn't comment on someone else's pop culture if you don't know the context. Triss is a character from a cycle of fantasy novels very popular in Poland - 'Wiedźmin' ('The Witcher'). So it's some response to this wave of popularity. Additionally, the game based on that cycle has become quite popular, not only in Poland. Besides, in the Photoshop era, is there such a big difference of pictures of so called 'real' women and computer generated ones? Hehehe

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Then you'll have to learn how to drink vodka not with these small shot glasses, but with a ladle. Anyway, good luck in Matuschka Russia.

Language / Do Poles prefer US American or UK English language? [185]

I prefer any accent that's easy to understand. Generally, it's down to individuals.

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

My guess would be 0.16 pound of 1-penny coins.

Genealogy / Funny Polish surnames [64]

In my primary school I had a Sobota (saturday) in my class. There was also a Piątek (friday) in one grade higher. My dad has a copy of an old German map showing our village in great detail, and one of the farms was belonging to a Pierdolla (pierdoła means something like old fart or a clumsy and helpless person). There is also Niesłony (not-salty-one).

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

These banknotes are not so worthless as you think, because I would say not much of them are around. Examples of prices are here:

numizmaty.com.pl/index.php?kat=371&podkat=373]
ggn.pl/aukcja33/cz6.htm

Work / An Australian girl living in Poland: Residence permit, please help! [44]

I can't give you any advice, but I can understand people who break rules when Polish red tape is involved.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Yes, of course not (:

My hoose is there, that's why.

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Recently a Bulgarian I met told me he feels safer in Glasgow(!) than in his homeland Bulgaria. I guess that sums up the discussion about who's EU and who's not yet there.

And before you call Poland 'asia', look at your own backyard, pal
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7440551.stm

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


AFAIK Germany is the popeland now, isn't it?

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

I puke within my sight range after drinking Wódka, so I voted Śliwowica.

Language / Polish words difficult to translate into English [66]


Who? Kożuch, dziadek or him? (Edit: a little joke here)

Żul, menel have probably no counterparts in English. But these are slang words.

UK, Ireland / Public library service provision to Polish community in UK [2]

Hmmm... I use the library mostly for sit-in reading and sometimes borrowing books... The service itself is well.

Genealogy / Easy way to find out which Polish coat of arm/Clan you belong to. [105]


The site's database doesn't contain these surnames.

Work / Questions about teaching in Elblag or Opole? [23]


Even better, it's not far away from Katowice-Pyrzowice airport.

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

It means we don't tolerate too much Salt & Vinegar chips :)

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

They're really worth 1.75 new ZLP, that is 1/2 of a can of beer. I'd keep them as a souvenir if I were you.

History / Polish-German alliance. [489]


The outcome might have been quite different. Let's not forget that Churchill called alliance with Stalin 'A Pact with the Devil', so I don't think Brits would run to help Soviet Union if they weren't already involved in war with Hitler. And without being at war on two fronts, without strategic bombings to worry about Germany had the potential to win the war with Stalin. But the Nazi ideology proved to be doom of itself in the long run - we all know that Germans were treated as liberators during the initial phase of Barbarossa, but their barbarism towards nations of the USSR soon turned the latter against them.

Life / Doughnut [Pączki] Day... in Poland [70]

So it's today ? I only happened to have a muffin with blackberries

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


Bullseye. Or donkeyseye.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


Piździ jak w Keleckym na banhłofie

Life / If I could introduce something from my country into Poland, I would.... [175]


Oh really ? Then let me invite you to Glasgow. Unless only Poles live there ?