Tłusty Czwartek - pączek dla wszystkich! / Fat Thursday: pączki for all!

Poland Second!

Bolek i Lolek!

Dziesiątka: powiedzenie / saying

Autor: barfisch, Wikimedia Commons.

To jest strzał w dziesiątkę! 

= You've hit the bull's eye! (lit.: that shot got 10 points)

Pechowa Trzynastka? / Unlucky thirteen?

Watch this little film about "unlucky thirteen",
which was the entry in a young people's film-making competition from an after-school film club at a gimnazjum (school for ages 13-16)
in Gorzów Wielkopolski.


pech = bad luck, from German pitch, bad luck

mieć pecha = to have bad luck
Mam pecha. = I have / am having bad luck.

pechowy = (adj.) unlucky

Reification of numbers! / Liczebniki rzeczownikowe!

JEDZIE ÓSEMKA!

"Bunches" (grona, like of grapes) of people hanging off the trams on Warsaw's Poniatowski bridge after the war.

Źródło: Wikimedia Commons, własność publiczna.

REIFIED NUMERALS

We used these reified numerals to refer to the different chocolate samples, instead of calling them by their brand names, since it was supposed to be a blind test. Reification means to make something abstract concrete -- in this case, making a number into a noun referring to a specific thing. 

It is like when in English we call buses by their names:"I just missed the 212."

These numbers, when reified, become nouns, and so decline as nouns. This is why we put trójka in the dative in this sentence, since it was the indirect object: "Ile punktów Pani daje trójce?" ("How many points do you give [number] three?"

jedynka = one
dwójka = two
trójka = three
czwórka = four
piątka = five
szóstka = six
siódemka = seven
ósemka = eight
dziewiątka = nine
dziesiątka = ten
jedenastka = eleven

De gustibus non est dispuntandum!

Autor: proacguy1; Wikimedia Commons

De gustibus non est disputandum 

Impress your Polish friends and neighbors 

with this indisputably erudite-sounding and ever-relevant Latin maxim!

Meaning:

gust nie podlega dyskusji / taste is not subject to discussion
o upodobaniach się nie dyskutuje / one does not discuss tastes

- Wikdictionary


Compare to Spanish in Spanish-Polish dictionary:

 gusto

(1.1) biol. smak, zmysł smaku
(1.2) smak (właściwość smakowa)
(1.3) przen. smak, gust

And for more fun with Latin sayings in the Polish context - see this person's Quizlet set, "Moje ulubione sentencje łacińskie".