Archive for May, 2009
Polish Blog Is One Year Old Posted by Anna on May 10, 2009
You know what? This week, little blog is ONE YEAR OLD! Happy Birthday Polish Blog! Well, technically, my first post appeared on May 11, 2008, but I just can’t wait till tomorrow! I must say this has been an interesting year. Sometimes challenging, sometimes lost in translation, sometimes controversial, but never boring. At least it…
Polish, English or Ponglish? Posted by Anna on May 7, 2009
No, I am not talking here about the butchered combination of Polish and English that some of my fellow countrymen, who spent more than two months abroad, are so fond of. I’m talking about the signs I saw at one of the largest bookstores in Gdańsk. I went to Dom Książki (literally: dom = house…
Readers’ Questions – “bez” and “nie” Posted by Anna on May 4, 2009
Yesterday was a public holiday in Poland to celebrate the Constitution of May 3rd, 1791 (Konstytucja Trzeciego Maja). And it made me realize that I didn’t really know all that much about this historical event. So off to google I went. And what did I learn? A whole bunch of really boring historical bits of…