Polish as official 3rd language

digitally-yours · 22-10-2007 02:53PM

Some statistics here

Worlds most spoken languages
World Rank =language=Speakers(Millions)=Where Spoken (Major)

1 Mandarin 1051 China, Malaysia, Taiwan
2 English 510 USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
3 Hindi 490 North and Central India
4 Spanish 425 The Americas, Spain
5 Arabic 255 Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
6 Russian 254 Russia, Central Asia
7 Portuguese 218 Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa
8 Bengali 215 Bangladesh, Eastern India
9 Malay, 175 Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
10 French 130 France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa
11 Japanese 127 Japan
12 German 123 Germany, Austria, Central Europe
13 Farsi (Persian) 110 Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia
14 Urdu 104 Pakistan, India
15 Punjabi I 103 Pakistan, India
16 Vietnamese 86 Vietnam, China
17 Tamil 78 Southern India, Sri Lanka, Malyasia
18 Wu 77 China
19 Javanese 76 Indonesia
20 Turkish 75 Turkey, Central Asia
21 Telugu 74 Southern India
22 Korean 72 Korean Peninsula
23 Marathi 71 Western India
24 Italian 61 Italy, Central Europe
25 Thai 60 Thailand, Laos
26 Cantonese 55 Southern China
27 Gujarati 47 Western India, Kenya
28 Polish 46 Poland, Central Europe
29 Kannada 44 Southern India
30 Burmese 42 Myanmar

dubhthach · 22-10-2007 03:41PM

Terry wrote: »

No.

Banned.

Isn't that not a bit harsh? The thread in a sense is about having Polish as a third official language, let a user gets banned for using the 1st official language.

Not like anything he was saying was particulary complex to follow.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 22-10-2007 03:41PM

if you know Irish.

county · 22-10-2007 04:08PM

dubhthach wrote: »

Isn't that not a bit harsh? The thread in a sense is about having Polish as a third official language, let a user gets banned for using the 1st official language.

Not like anything he was saying was particulary complex to follow.

he was warned and still persisted to post in irish

BolBill · 22-10-2007 04:11PM

Should be shot so ......

Hobbes · 23-10-2007 04:53PM

I don't normally read the newspapers anymore. Everything online. But picked up a Herald recently and was surprised that the middle of it was all in Polish.

Kintarō Hattori · 23-10-2007 05:33PM

Hobbes wrote: »

I don't normally read the newspapers anymore. Everything online. But picked up a Herald recently and was surprised that the middle of it was all in Polish.

It's been like that for a good long time.

Steyr · 23-10-2007 07:23PM

NO. They came here and knew the score so its up to them to learn the Language.

DonJose · 23-10-2007 07:43PM

Give them what they want or else.

"All your electricity are belong to us."

digitally-yours · 23-10-2007 08:11PM

DonJose wrote: »

Give them what they want or else.

"All your electricity are belong to us."

:eek: I paid 690 Euro as my ESB bill.

and they don't even pay their employees.

Wonders of outsourcing

gcgirl · 23-10-2007 08:31PM

digitally-yours wrote: »

:eek: I paid 690 Euro as my ESB bill.

and they don't even pay their employees.

Wonders of outsourcing

the ESB paid the POLISH sub contractors do your home work!

ojewriej · 25-10-2007 02:45PM

Hobbes wrote: »

I don't normally read the newspapers anymore. Everything online. But picked up a Herald recently and was surprised that the middle of it was all in Polish.

Only on Wednesdays

tomster · 17-11-2007 12:46AM

Hi,

Here's what Poles think of "polski" as a 3rd language (look on the top)

1. Absurd, ridiculous, sick idea. (majority)
2. Why not? (a few fools)
3. Yeah, sure... (this option was added just for fun)

http://www.gazeta.ie/forum/index.php?showtopic=36334

Find it sick idea myself. I didn't come to Ireland to get another Poland here...

randylonghorn · 17-11-2007 12:55AM

[smug]Exactly as I predicted above![/smug]

randylonghorn wrote: »

I know quite a few Poles and Lithuanians who live (and work damn hard) in Ireland, and they would laugh their holes off at this idea.

tomster wrote: »

3. Yeah, sure... (this option was added just for fun)

... normally "Atari Jaguar" on Boards, tomster. Don't ask, for the sake of your sanity!

tomster · 17-11-2007 01:07AM

randylonghorn wrote: »

[smug]Exactly as I predicted above![/smug]

That actually was quite easy to guess

randylonghorn · 17-11-2007 01:14AM

tomster wrote: »

That actually was quite easy to guess

Agreed!

Amazing how many people in this thread missed it, though! :rolleyes:

tomster · 17-11-2007 01:40AM

randylonghorn wrote: »

Agreed!

Amazing how many people in this thread missed it, though! :rolleyes:

Would that be as result of a wrong image, built on low educated part of polish immigration in Ireland? Normal ones will live here, love the country and will integrate - loosers won't. And no one feels sorry for them.

Terry · 17-11-2007 03:29AM

tomster wrote: »

Hi,

Here's what Poles think of "polski" as a 3rd language (look on the top)

1. Absurd, ridiculous, sick idea. (majority)
2. Why not? (a few fools)
3. Yeah, sure... (this option was added just for fun)

http://www.gazeta.ie/forum/index.php?showtopic=36334

Find it sick idea myself. I didn't come to Ireland to get another Poland here...

Come to Ireland and take the advice of this guy: http://www.gazeta.ie/forum/index.php?showtopic=36334&view=findpost&p=139052

randylonghorn · 17-11-2007 03:40AM

tomster wrote: »

Would that be as result of a wrong image, built on low educated part of polish immigration in Ireland? Normal ones will live here, love the country and will integrate - loosers won't. And no one feels sorry for them.

Hmmm ... it may be a contributing factor ...

Personally, though, I would look more towards the prejudices of a small number of vocal locals on this forum ... :rolleyes:

Kanzler · 20-12-2007 09:03PM

I like polish people! this is my honest opinion. i like polish, irish, american, hungarian, dutch, french, swedish, african, german, australian and ALL people over the world. but we have to respect the different languages in the different countries. that is a important thing, i think.
when i want to live in another country, i have to respect the language over there and i have to learn the language over there. otherwise i can`t work and live in a foreign country.

it is true, it would be very easy to have your own native language in a foreign country where you live. it would be very easy to understand the administrative things of the foreign country for yourself. but if you want to live and work in another country, you HAVE to learn the language over there. otherwise it would takes a long time to learn the language, mentality etc.. I think, it is very important to make your own experience in a foreign country, including the foreign language.

the same i`d be valid of a english (or some other foreign) people. if english people wants to live in germany, i`d expect, that they wants to learn german, because they wants to understand the german occurrence or something like that.

i`m not from ireland. i`m from germany and my english is very bad. but i give all my best to learn english as good as possible. and it`s annoys me, if there is a guy, he wants his own native language in a foreign country, because it`s would be much more easy for him to live over there.

by the way: ask a polish people about a special situation with the germans around 70 years ago. there was a special guy from austria and he was thinking about this the same. the end of the story was awful. the polish people were not amused of it. i know, that situation was another one and i know, that is another way of thinking. but the result is probably the same.

Mweelrea · 20-12-2007 11:31PM

No not a chance should it be an official launguage!
I mean c'mon its Ireland.
We don't even speak our proper launguage so why should we even consider polish.
I've nothing against the polish community but when you move to another country make an effort to learn the launguage properly. Don't expect your launguage to become an official state launguge. Thats just arrogance.

Rant over

ojewriej · 20-12-2007 11:35PM

Lads, this tread died over a month ago.

Nobody seriously suggested to make polish an official language here. It was just one fella who wrote an article in the polish paper. Even poles laughed at him.

You can let it go.

DonJose · 21-12-2007 03:16AM

ojewriej wrote: »

Lads, this tread died over a month ago.

Nobody seriously suggested to make polish an official language here. It was just one fella who wrote an article in the polish paper. Even poles laughed at him.

You can let it go.

Blame your polish buddy for bringing this thread back to life.

Kintarō Hattori · 21-12-2007 03:19AM

Mweelrea wrote: »

No not a chance should it be an official launguage!
I mean c'mon its Ireland.
We don't even speak our proper launguage so why should we even consider polish.
I've nothing against the polish community but when you move to another country make an effort to learn the launguage properly. Don't expect your launguage to become an official state launguge. Thats just arrogance.

Rant over

You've missed the general meaning of this thread entirely.

DonJose wrote: »

Blame your polish buddy for bringing this thread back to life.

Now now- there's no need for blame.

gerky · 21-12-2007 03:28AM

DonJose wrote: »

Blame your polish buddy for bringing this thread back to life.

The person who restarted it is from Germany.

ojewriej · 21-12-2007 09:15AM

DonJose wrote: »

Blame your polish buddy for bringing this thread back to life.

Even if he was Polish - what's your point really? And why are you assuming he is my buddy?

fmess · 21-12-2007 12:47PM

I'm disgusted with this Idea!
I'm Italian and I came here 10 years ago and I had to struggle to start everything from scratch. These guys come here for a few years with no language and expect that everybody else will learn their? Sounds to me lazyness.....

teetotaller · 21-12-2007 05:19PM

as some people already wrote it is only a stupid idea of one fecker who is even not recognized in polish community. how many times should we repeat it ???????????????????????????????????

If somebody ( nobody) will say that every one will receive 1k euro as a gift will u start to complain and write few hundred posts about an idiot who said something ?????

Please take it as a joke of an asshole and stop complaining as it make no any sense. New people are reading this thread and cos almost nobody read all posts but usually first and last page people are getting exciting about some crazy idea.

signed by:
Teetotaller with polish nationality.....

Kanzler · 21-12-2007 08:16PM

interesting because if it is outside of polish topics. we are stay here for discuss some topics. this is the sense of that website. independent of the number of the posts.

Kintarō Hattori · 21-12-2007 10:28PM

To anyone who is disgusted, shocked, revolted, horrified, appalled etc by this idea GO BACK and read this thread and see what general opinion was reached.

Polish as official 3rd language

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