Cool! i live on the west coast, i dont have any polish friends (everyone is mexican or irish) its cool that there is a polish site like this! thanks!!!
Do Poles swear a lot? I listening to two guys talking on the bus the other day and it was a torrent of swear words (I don't know what they all meant, but it was every second word)
Swearing isn't as bad of a thing in Poland as it is in say the UK or US. We don't have many of those whiney babies that complain about anything mildly bad. So yeah, we kinda do swear a lot. But it's just spice added to the chicken :)
"cholera jasna" or "no do cholery jasnej" words usually used when something goes wrong or when in a hurry and something stops us ; no direct translation possible but it can relate to English "damn" or "****" or "****".
My friend Piotr taught me many swear words,, my other friend Piotr lives in a very nice area, a house we built him should be worth about 975K, but there are all czarnie in the whole area, I have seen this in cities, but never in the burbs, is really freaky, they are all big homes and , I must add not built to my standards, but the nice cars are all out front.
I dont have anything against them at all, but is rare to see them all in such large homes, not to say they could not afford them, I just thinik it became a place of refuge for them, and they just congregated there.