Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6106 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish
| Message 97 of 125 07 February 2011 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
Ok, I'm going to hazard a guess....(only been learning Polish for 5 months, please be gentle!)...
1. The person asking whether the Radwanski sisters are great patriots or not,
doesn't believe they are. It's a sceptical way of asking the question.
2. Here the questioner has no idea if the sisters are great patriots. He is
just asking an innocent straight question.
...please put us out of suspense Minaaret and tell us the difference!
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slavonica Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5047 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Polish*, German, English Studies: Russian, Czech
| Message 99 of 125 07 February 2011 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
Do you want to see if we read our books at school or what? Sorry, but I really can't understand, what's going on here.
Here you are: It's a citation from Gombrowiczs Ferdydurke, one of the best known. The construction itself isn't really correct, you wouldn't say it this way nowadays. You would say "Dlatego, panowie, że Słowacki był wielkim poetą". There is a pressure on the word "był", because the children didn't have the right to have their own opinion and they just had to know, what their teacher said was right. And teachers truth was, that Słowacki was a great poet and no one could deny.
Anyway, it's not much better nowadays. You still habe to analyse everything like they want you to :/
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slavonica Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5047 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Polish*, German, English Studies: Russian, Czech
| Message 101 of 125 08 February 2011 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
Smolensk. I'm getting out. I don't feel like talking about this even ON THIS FORUM.
Bye.
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