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Eight Polish-to-English translation errors that are ruining my life

I know there are good Polish-to-English translators out there because I’ve read Kapuściński in English and thoroughly enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I never seem to get to work with them. I spend an alarming amount of my time these days earning a crust on the ‘proofreading’* circuit and I’m developing a complex of neuroses any Viennese [...]

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Decoy’s second post on Polandian. The man cannot be stopped… As an absolute beginner in Polish one of the best ways I have found of building vocabulary is ‘word-snatching’ while watching television. I pick out the few words I recognise in order to try and work out the context of what is being presented on the [...]

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• Read Aneta Stokes' new column on the Dziennik Polski website if you know what's good for you. She's my wife you know. #
• The pride of Poland. New column in the Krakow post — "Like the rest of the nation I am now an armchair cross-country skiing expert. Poland’s Justyna Kowalczyk has won two Olympic gongs and is in the running for more. Veteran ski jumper Adam Małysz has also bagged two and re-ignited the nation’s passion for watching small moustachioed men hurl themselves down precipitous icy slopes into yawning space. Men with large stomachs and about as much first hand knowledge of ski slopes as they have of quantum mechanics earnestly discuss the finer points of Telemark landing techniques in pubs across the land. Poland’s glow of pride is visible from space." Read the rest on the Krakow Post website. #
• The Big Freeze My latest column for the Krakow Post. It's all about snow: "It’s been snowing. Other things may have happened but nobody can be sure since these things have immediately been buried under six feet of icy precipitation. There are strange humpy white shapes scattered all over the country that may or may not conceal fascinating news stories." Read the rest on the Krakow Post website. #
• Crosses to Bare My latest column in the Krakow Post: "Joanna Krupa is a hard woman to ignore. The 30-year-old model enjoys the kind of curvaceous good looks that get you on the cover of Playboy. Photographed naked, sporting a pair of angel’s wings and using just a silver crucifix to preserve her modesty, she becomes ever harder to overlook." Read the rest on the Krakow Post website… #
• A very silly post in which I point out childish double-entendres. Polish tits Favourite quotes: "the biggest of European tits, this species does not avoid the human nearness…" "Great tit does not avoid human" A–Z of Polish Birds Favourite quotes: "some birds wander as rare vagrants as far as Great Britain…" Polish birds in the pictures of Przemyslaw Pawlak Favourite quotes: "Great Tits in Duet! Enjoy the watching!" "Against the Pink Sphere" #