Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Polish term or phrase:
blokowisko
English translation:
(bleak, drab) housing project
Polish term
blokowisko
Sep 20, 2007 22:11: Peter Shortall changed "Language pair" from "English to Polish" to "Polish to English"
Oct 27, 2008 11:36: Darius Saczuk Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
United States
The Slanguage Buff
Native in: Polish (Variant: Standard-Poland) 
, English (Variant: US)
Works in: Polish to English, Spanish to English, English, and 4 more.
bleak apartment building/ (ew. house)
Residing in a bleak apartment building in a small Russian town, a seemingly typical couple (Nadezhda Ozerova and Viktor Solovyov) begins their dreary daily ...
Yes, it's about a heavy-set 60-year-old Bucharest widower who lives alone with his cats in a bleak apartment building. T
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allp
: to jest tłumaczenie bloku, a nie blokowiska
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Zgadza się. Nie wiem dlaczego blokowisko kojarzy mi się czasami z pojedynczym, okropnym budynkiem.
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Native in: Polish 
Works in: English to Polish, Polish to English, Polish, and 1 more.
towerblock(s)
podobnie PWN high-rise / tower block housing estate
Kościuszko - bleak apartment houses
bleak towerblocks powinno oddać sens
HTH
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allp
: nie wszystkie bloki to towers, są i osiedla czteropiętrowych
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uznaję uwagę :)
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ATA-cert En>Pl, Court-Certified in US
Native in: Polish
Works in: English to Polish, Polish to English, Polish
project
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allp
: blokowisko to jest właśnie całe osiedle
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Darius Saczuk
: Przyznaję rację. Nie wiem dlaczego blokowisko kojarzy mi się z okropnym, pojedynczym budynkiem. Proponowałbym przed projects użyć "bleak", by oddać okropny charakter tych skupisk ludzkich.
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można, ale nie wiem czy to nie tautologia' czasem mówi się też "houising projects"
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legato
19 hrs
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TranslateThis
: projects, jak najbardziej
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Himawari
: housing project :-)
1 day 13 hrs
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Poland
Automotive tEXtPERT
Native in: Polish
Works in: English to Polish, German to Polish, Polish to English, and 2 more.
slab block / high-rise (block) / prefab block housing estate
http://www.meek.demon.co.uk/projects.html
"Crime in high-rise housing – is it the built. environment’s fault? ... The Bristol estate (Hartcliffe) appears to have the highest crime rate of any of the ..."
http://environment.uwe.ac.uk/commsafe/EURA_article.pdf
Due to the dense population, the most common form of residential housing in Hong Kong is the high-rise housing estate, which may be publicly owned, privately owned, of semi-private.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_estate
"The Dutch Bijlmermeer high-rise housing estate located outside Amsterdam has seen more than a lot of trouble. But now, after years of unsuccessful regeneration effort, the Bijlmermeer is finally thriving."
http://www.sharedspaces.nl/pagina.html?id=9480
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Grzegorz Mysiński
: dodałbym np. ,,drab and monotonous''
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Tomasz Poplawski
: w tekście porównującym blokowisko do getta słownictwo amerykańskie wydaje mi się bardziej na miejscu;
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TranslateThis
: zgadzam się z przedmówcą
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FishX
: high-rise housing estates
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