Translation - Polish-English - Pierwszego stycznia wszyscy ludzie witajÄ… Nowy...

Hi Kevrutto

I need to make some corrections on your text:

"On the first of ...brings in the New Year and wishes each other a "Happy New Year". It is traditional to drink champagne, ... send each other Christmas cards. They ... Christmas Eve, Poles sing Christmas carols. A traditional dish on a Polish Christmas table is carp in jelly."

Can you do the edits?

As I don't speak Polish, I will ask for a poll!

Bises
Tantine

Hi Tantine,

It´s very kind of you to help me with my translation. I´ll introduce them to the text right now, but alas! how that´s done once one submits the text?

Kevrutto,

P.S.- By the way what does "Bises" mean?

Hi Kevrutto

To edit, you click on the "edit" button under the translation.

I'll have to do a little edit, because a word went missing here "everybody" has disappeared from your text!!! I'll put it back.

"Bises" is French for "kisses" so it's my "signature" here on cucumis, even when I leave messages in English.

You should tell me the word in Polish, then I can say it to you in Polish too.

Beijos
Tantine

Hi Tantine,

I´m slightly shortsighted and I missed the button, but I found it.

Pocałunek= kiss
Pocałunki= kisses

Popular (or shorter):
całunki = kisses

(for polish characters look at lexilogos clavier polonais en ligne)

Bye,

Kevrutto

Hi Tantine,

I made a slight mess out of the text! But at last I came through. Have I got it right now?

żegnam się

całunki,

Kevrutto

no Poles- Polish people

Hi emrah7

Is it pejorative to say "Poles"? In this case no problem, I will put "Polish people" instead

Kevrutto, there was not such a big mess, mostly just the capital letters. It's not easy knowing where you have to put them and where you don't.

In English proper nouns take a capital - the days of the week, the names of the months, the names of the seasons, high days and holidays (Christmas, Easter, New Year)....

I see there are a lot of capitals in Polish too. Is it like German, where all the nouns take a capital?

Bises
Tantine

The last sentence is missing in this translation."Boże Narodzenie jest obecnie świętem narodowym." means "Christmas is now a national holiday."

Hi Punia

Thanks for letting us know. I'll edit the text to put this back in.

Bises
Tantine

What's wrong with saying "Poles"? That's the first I've heard of that term being pejorative.

Anyway, where are we at on this now?