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Joined: 14 Sep 2006 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 27 Jan 2013
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Posts: Total: 1,085 / Live: 343 / Archived: 742 		From: Kraina Deszczowców
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Bartolome   
26 Jun 2011
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.
Bartolome   
1 Jul 2011
News / EU presidency to cost Poland 110 million euro [33]

Presidency of the EU, especially by not-so-strong-an-economy as is Poland is currently rated as not having such significance as it used to have several years ago, but Poland could, as a country not previously involved in colonial adventures in MENA countries, be an exporter of the 'Round Table' idea into that region. However, the Greek mess will be the priority for the EU now and I suppose that Libya et al. will have to wait for a while.
Bartolome   
6 Jul 2011
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

What is peculiar in this photo?

And a mid-aged tram as well?
Bartolome   
7 Jul 2011
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

1. Matejko's kitch?
2. Malczewski
3. ?
4. I probably know the painter's name, but currently I forgot

Whose face can you see?

Bruno Schulz?
Bartolome   
7 Jul 2011
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

How is this painting called:

'Podaj cegłę!'

Opel Kapitan. Why was I excited when I saw this car at vintage cars picnic?

Can't read minds.
Bartolome   
7 Jul 2011
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

I got very sentimental seeing that car there. Why?

Ehem... I know you're the creator of this thread, but it's supposed to be 'Poland in riddles' not 'pawian in riddles.' What and where is this?
Bartolome   
7 Jul 2011
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Besides, have you seen me in any of these photos?

I don't give a damn about your ego, and your cheap psychoanalysis. I just pointed out in a rather soft way it was supposed to be Poland in riddles and you give me some crap that I've got 'facking problems'. And too many emoticons for my liking. Whatever, roll a hard candy (or get lost to Honolulu boxing monkeys).
Bartolome   
8 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Brits or Poles more eager to try new foods? [17]

Poles IMHO seem to be far more reluctant to try new foods.

In general, I'd say yes. That'll apply to working class, usually conservative, that got used to their menus, earning modest wages, so rather rarely eating out. However, I think that more and more Poles in Poland (new restaurants and takeaways opening) and abroad (restaurants and takeaways and well-supplied food shops) try something new.

even TESCOS still has a Polish foods aisle

I don't know about their sizes in your area, but in mine they're rather small or don't exist, Polish foods are just mingled with others.

Lets just look at how popular Polski Skleps still are over here.

It's an opportunity for the Brits to try something new, too.
Bartolome   
8 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Brits or Poles more eager to try new foods? [17]

for sure it is,my old mum is now addicted to pierogi serem (?sweet cheese?) :)

I bought them, but I don't really like them sweet, they're supposed to be savoury, with melted smalec (proper Polish lard), fried onion bits and skwarki :)

,they missed the trick about fresh bread though,the small shops caught on and for once little shops have beaten the evil empire,Yay! :)

Yeah, good for you, I only noticed one type of Polish bread in a local Morrisons, imported from as far as, IIRC, Manchester.
Bartolome   
8 Jul 2011
Po polsku / Polska jest dyktaturą? [129]

dobrze, że trener tu nie zagląda bo by mi się dostało za cytowanie komunistów ;)

Nie tylko komunistów, ale też socjalistów, anarchistów, bezpartyjnych i pewno jeszcze paru. Ubierać wór pokutny i na kolanach do Częstochowy, hehe
Bartolome   
9 Jul 2011
Life / How do Polish people in Poland respond to Polish people abroad....? [17]

However, I do sometimes have problems understanding when people born and bred in Poland speak?

Don't worry, I myself being a 'regular' Pole have problems with understanding some of my compatriots. However, as you'll soon see for yourself, using certain magic spirit (wink wink) raising liquid, which is a significant part of student life, will likely help you profoundly in broadening your horizons of the Polish language.
Bartolome   
24 Jul 2011
News / Observations made by Her Majesty's departing Ambassador to Poland Rick Todd. [9]

He's a diplomat, isn't he? :)
But I can see much truth in his opinion about us. It's maybe too a rosy one, but can be used to describe a good chunk of our society. We like to argue, but often someone's arguments against ours are perceived as personal attacks or plain moaning.
Bartolome   
31 Jul 2011
News / Will Poland ever host the Olympics? [18]

What for? And if it ever happened, I'm afraid it would end up with a scenario similar to the Greek one: stadiums rotting away and a sh!tload of debts.

If Poland wants to organise such an event, it needs to embrace fully the concept of sustainability: not only the the event counts, but its aftermath as well. That requires an entire change of mentality, which is undergoing here in Britain: in the olympics context, the sport venues are designed so they can be used afterwards (e.g. newly built velodrome has been hailed as 'the most sustainable sport venue in the world'). Sports village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is to be converted into a housing estate etc.

We'll see how the EURO 2012 and its aftermath will work for Poland and Poles. I'd say that its success or failure would be the critical factor for making a decision about applying for the Olympics organisation.
Bartolome   
5 Aug 2011
News / Andrzej Lepper committed suicide [98]

Latest news (in Polish) at gazeta.pl: 'Samoobrona' chief found dead in his office:

Andrzej Lepper is dead. Many years the leader Self Defense , Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski , was today found dead in Warsaw office party - inform the police . He killed himself . He was 57 years.

All indications are that he committed suicide by hanging. Probably we are not dealing with the participation of a third party - said Mariusz Sokolowski , a spokesman for the Warsaw police. Information about suicide also confirmed a spokesman for the ambulance . Andrzej Lepper before the hour was 17 at the headquarters of the Self-Defense at Jerusalem Avenue family member .
Bartolome   
5 Aug 2011
News / Andrzej Lepper committed suicide [98]

Yes, that's a surprise. He's always been in a 'fighting' mood. Luckily his populist party got voted out of politics (along with LPR, unfortunately PiS is still kicking aboot). 'Political death' got him, I wonder what were his motives to commit suicide.
Bartolome   
5 Aug 2011
News / Andrzej Lepper committed suicide [98]

Parliament without Lepper and Giertych is not any better.

Blether. I'd rather live in 'boring' times than 'interesting' ones. Populist-nationalists are the last thing Poland needs.
Bartolome   
6 Aug 2011
News / VAT, OFE, ZUS and costly dress under Tusk's government in Poland [48]

So you say Tusk's government with higher VAT and stealing money from OFE is better and less populist than previous one?

Populism would be something completely opposite: happily giving money away to anyone asking for it. Lepper was in favour of printing more: we've got short memory, don't we?

the amount of hypocrisy in the parliament has not decreased (I think even contrary) - malintent omnipresent- if this is peaceful 'boring times' then what kind of storm are we up to

We're already in a strom. I don't even want to imagine what would it be like under PiS-LPR-Samoobrona.