Elections in Poland, Liberals win

[warpus]

There is nothing immature about having a good laugh when the thing you're laughing at is actually really funny I am actually trying to analyse what exactly is it that is so funny about Polish. I mentioned the overuse of soft consonants that makes it sound like a "šišlající" Czech, but there are other things to it.

I think I'll start a thread about Slavic languages, where we can laugh at each other and stay on-topic

It doesn't really matter much to me, but I would never laugh about say.. Russian, in front of Russians. I might say something like: "You know, your language sounds weird and funny to me", but I wouldn't say to a Polish friend: "Hahahahah that RUssian language.. oh man.. how funny it is! Listen to this part!" while Russians are within earshot. It's just impolite and immature.

Either way.. Polish politics! Eh.. i don't know much about polish politics. Thread over?

 

[Domen]

PO might have won but the Black Horse of the elections was definitely Palikot's Movement - 10,02% votes to Sejm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palikot's_Movement

There is nothing immature about having a good laugh when the thing you're laughing at is actually really funny I am actually trying to analyse what exactly is it that is so funny about Polish. I mentioned the overuse of soft consonants that makes it sound like a "šišlající" Czech, but there are other things to it.

I think I'll start a thread about Slavic languages, where we can laugh at each other and stay on-topic.

It doesn't really matter much to me, but I would never laugh about say.. Russian, in front of Russians. I might say something like: "You know, your language sounds weird and funny to me", but I wouldn't say to a Polish friend: "Hahahahah that RUssian language.. oh man.. how funny it is! Listen to this part!" while Russians are within earshot. It's just impolite and immature.

Either way.. Polish politics! Eh.. i don't know much about polish politics. Thread over?

See the difference between Polish and Russian languages:

Russian:


Link to video.

Polish:


Link to video.

Completely different, mates! Czech or Slovakian is much more similar to Polish!

I can understand Slovakians quite easily - at least most of what they say - even though I don't speak Slovakian.

"suksesu", "avansu", "konsekventnego"... you bros even speak Slavic language anymore?

Yes we do. And Polish is easy to master by foreigners - as this American guy proves:


Link to video.

 

[Domen]

- Squonk, does MP really mean member of parliament? Then, just wow.

Yeap. Actually that's an English abbreviation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members, such as senators.

Members of parliament tend to form parliamentary groups (also called parliamentary parties) with members of the same political party. In everyday use, the term Member of Parliament is almost always shortened to the initialism "MP", and this is also common in the media.

First off: There must be more 'big' parties? Where are the other center parties, the left parties, the niche parties, etc?

Why "must"? In Britain there are only 2 big parties.

Well, actually in Poland there are more big parties - like SLD. But this time SLD got only 8,24% of votes.

SLD (Democratic Left Alliance) won the elections (in coalition with UP - Labour Union) in 2001:

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On this website you can find some detailed data on results of 2011 elections:

http://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/wyn/pl/000000.html#tabs-1

For example this map shows which party won in which area:

http://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/wyn/countyCommittees-pl.html

Distribution of votes for PiS:

http://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/rfl/000000/pl/725c4668ea3ae43c83d5d5b737d3e93d.html

Distribution of votes for PO:

http://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/rfl/000000/pl/5a7e9c7a17fbb4d8a010999ec78357d6.html

Distribution of votes for Palikot:

http://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/rfl/000000/pl/5bb286139e8634992626d98f3ec0f2f8.html

There were also data showing distribution of votes in different age groups, different professions, sexes, etc. But I can't find them at the moment.