tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387352645682544869.post1859171476985560925..comments2023-05-29T14:49:26.349+02:00Comments on Travels without my spaniel: Rozmowypinolonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00473418753213565601noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387352645682544869.post-84483970839740242462009-02-17T07:07:00.000+01:002009-02-17T07:07:00.000+01:00Ad 5. So who is standing in front of the Town Hall...Ad 5. So who is standing in front of the Town Hall Tower / besides the Cloth Hall in the picture in your blog? Moustache - OK, 100 kilo - well, NOT the person in the photo. Twiggy drove a truck too!<BR/><BR/>Ad 1. It's not about using the English syntax (which allows far more options that you use) but keeping - like the people you grew among - to some of its products. Grammatically it's as perfectly correct to say "I don't think she's got a cat" as "I think she [doesn't have //'s got no] cat". Its usage and custom that make you use the first option (negate as soon as possible) and us, Poles fumble with the latter options through interference: "Myślę/Sądzę, że nie ma kota". <BR/><BR/>And best of luck with your course!!!<BR/><BR/><BR/>Halfling PLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387352645682544869.post-48781067285031626852009-02-16T18:36:00.000+01:002009-02-16T18:36:00.000+01:00Anonymous 2: spot on.Halfling 1:1- I am cynically ...Anonymous 2: spot on.<BR/><BR/>Halfling 1:<BR/>1- I am cynically adding basic Polish to my CV in the hope that it will improve my chances of the DG-Interpretation inviting me for a freelance accreditation test.<BR/><BR/>2- I am English, ergo I write using English syntax (although five months of intensive Polish-learning with a bunch of other foreigners may help me to cast off this type of syntactic restraint)<BR/><BR/>3- Since I work from home I'm one of those people who lives in the strange daytime tv zone. Therefore everyone around me is either elderly or on maternity leave. And our building is indeed entirely populated by old people.<BR/><BR/>4- Who said the obwarzanek killed my hunger? I then got on the tram to Karolina's place where I proceeded to devour a platter of Italian cheese.<BR/><BR/>5- You don't know I'm cute. For all you know I weigh 100 kilos and sport a moustache (particularly after the cheese). And drive a truck. In fact, what makes you assume that I am female?pinolonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00473418753213565601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387352645682544869.post-13122474784408922882009-02-15T22:11:00.000+01:002009-02-15T22:11:00.000+01:00Prawdę prawicie, Ojcze Anonymousie, iako to w Księ...Prawdę prawicie, Ojcze Anonymousie, iako to w Księdze Lymericku napisano: <BR/><BR/>Okrutna Pinolona spod Londona <BR/>W Kra(kow)inie czarów naszła demona,<BR/>pod postacią starej Babci.<BR/>Gdy spytał ją "Czy robi apsi-<BR/>k?" kopła go w okolicę ogona.<BR/><BR/>Halfling PLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387352645682544869.post-81857914873750615762009-02-15T20:39:00.000+01:002009-02-15T20:39:00.000+01:00Deep down Pinolona is cruel as hell. :DDeep down Pinolona is cruel as hell. :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387352645682544869.post-7715916357922969962009-02-15T20:03:00.000+01:002009-02-15T20:03:00.000+01:00How (deliciously) Carrollian (you are)!!!My argume...How (deliciously) Carrollian (you are)!!!<BR/><BR/>My arguments? Let's begin from the start, Alice: <BR/><BR/>1. How cute of you to learn the language which complicates life so as to turn "happy" into "szczęśliwy"! Ergo: you are cute [tick]!<BR/><BR/>2. A Pole, never much how educated or experienced in the English language won't say "School doesn't start until...". You discover us when you hear us say "School starts (only/already) on Monday..." <BR/><BR/>proved so far: you are (deliciously) British [tick]<BR/><BR/>3. You actually notice babcie! i.e. you are a wnuczę*-like child [tick]: innocent. (Don't take offence, I mean Innocence in the Blakean sense.) <BR/><BR/>4. You can actually kill your hunger with an obwarzanek** so you must be female [tick]. <BR/><BR/>Alice, that unmistakably classifies you as a 2) British 1) cute 3) female of the 4)grandchild type. You ARE**** Ch.L. Dodgeson's Alice.***** <BR/><BR/>BONUS:<BR/>5. You escape from the verbal courtesy offered by the not-that-ocassional Babcia on your way. We, Poles (even in a hurry) slow our motion in (mock-)reverence at such an encounter. For a Pole, that's non-you to shun those elderly Queen of Hearts (Maybe unless we are currently holding a flamingo under the elbow, which as a rule we don't). Maybe that's because deep down in your heart you're Black Aliss...************<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Halfling PL temporarily turn'd Cheshire Cat<BR/><BR/>* sexuality not determined yet at that stage<BR/>** bajgiel, precel<BR/>*** at least for us <BR/>**** just a row of stars<BR/>***** though I doubt PL is wonderland, we may exhibit certain traces and peculiarities of Carrollian Wonderland (capital W)<BR/>************ e.g. http://www.jucaushii.ro/wallpapers/content/thumb2/thumb_49553.jpg<BR/>http://www.jucaushii.ro/wallpapers/content/thumb2/thumb_47729.jpg<BR/>http://www.jucaushii.ro/wallpapers/content/thumb2/thumb_23633.jpg<BR/>http://www2.odn.ne.jp/piyokun/gaming/alice-statue-in-Sofmap.jpgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com