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Polandian Best Babcia in Show Awards (PBBSA) 2011

Feb 20, 2011 11 Comments by

Polandian welcomes a new contributor this time around, with Paddy from Pozdrowenia z Ursynowia making his debut. With his first effort, he touches on a favoured subject of his… The Babcia Brigade. ********************************************************************************************* Yes, it’s that time of the year again: The final 6 contestants have been selected, the votes cast and counted and the [...]

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Christmas caption competition

Dec 23, 2010 9 Comments by

It’s a Christmas caption competition in the sense that it’s happening at Christmas time. Gather your family around the monitor after Christmas (eve) dinner and encourage them to invent witty alternatives.

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL POLANDIAN READERS, CONTRIBUTORS AND TO THE WORLD IN GENERAL.

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Polish-English Translation Competition #13 (closed)

Oct 13, 2010 14 Comments by

The 13th translation competition absolutely coincidentally comes out on the 13th day of month. Given the waning attention Polandian’s readers pay to translation competitions, I am of the opinion it is high time we came up with something that would freshen up the content of the page. Before it happens, the last portion of translation [...]

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Polish Logo Competition #7: Telecommunications

Oct 06, 2010 7 Comments by

Each reader of Polandian probably has a mobile phone with them or near them, showing how all-pervasive telecommunications technology has become. Poland is no stranger to telecommunications, with probably every second advertisement on TV being for a mobile phone operator. With that in mind, we will test how familiar you are with the logos of [...]

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Polish-English Translation Competition #12 (closed)

Sep 29, 2010 8 Comments by

If some of you, dear readers, wonder if the translation competitions will ever disappear from Polandian, I can assure you we have had more down than we have to go. We are actually winding down, hence short phrases to guess in this round. 1. niedoróbka – glitch (-) 2. zaścianek – a backwater (Decoy) 3. [...]

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Polish Logo Competition #6: Retail

Sep 22, 2010 7 Comments by

Moving on from previous geographical logos, we will now try to look at some logos and icons found in everyday life, beginning with the retail sector. The logos below are examples of Polish retail firms of all kinds, which can normally be found on the streets and roads of Poland. So, if you are someone [...]

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Polish-English Translation Competition #11 (closed)

Sep 15, 2010 19 Comments

Traffic in Warsaw is snarled-up, hence it occured to me it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make speed a common denominator for this translation competition. Here we go! 1. iść pełną parą – to be in overdrive (-) 2. paliwożerca – a gas guzzler (Grze$ko) 3. ile wlezie – flat out (adthelad) 4. kumulacja [...]

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Polandian caption competition #3

Sep 08, 2010 13 Comments

Polandian’s much-loved caption competition is back! To be honest, the reason I stopped doing them was because so many prominent Poles were killed in the Smolensk disaster that for a long time I couldn’t be sure the people in the pictures I had chosen weren’t tragically dead. At least one of the people who appeared [...]

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Polish-English Translation Competition #10 (closed)

Sep 01, 2010 21 Comments

Some of readers might be despondent these days. The school year begins today, the weather hasn’t been clement recently in Poland, the days are drawing in, and autumn is imminent. For no apparent reason all those unfavourable circumstances prompted me to make criminality a leitmotiv of the tenth translation competition. Actually not all the phrases [...]

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Polish Logo Competition #5: Voivods

Aug 25, 2010 5 Comments

Polandian has previously looked at the logos of the main cities found in Poland. This time will be somewhat of a step up as we look at the voivodships (województwa), more commonly known as the regions within Poland. Once again we look at the coats of arms that represent the regions. There are 16 voivodships [...]

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