rickety street

Dzień dobry, rickety street to w tłumaczeniu na polski poskręcana ulica, w rozumieniu nie idąca prosto? Sformułowanie pochodzi z książki On the Road Jack Kerouac.

będąca w złej kondycji
pierwotne znaczenie: rachityczny (=związany z chorobą o nazwie krzywica)

Dzięki.

The poor street must be out of shape and short of stamina.

That sort of makes me wonder why “conditional sentence” translates into “zdanie warunkowe” rather than “zdanie kondycjonalne" or "kondycyjne.” Wouldn't "zdanie kondycyne" be cute?

People are generally able to understand metaphorical speech, aren't you?

Schizophrenics and austistic people are not

That is also true for people with strong ADHD , however spectrum of Autism is so broad that > 90% of the people have some symptoms from the spectrum. I am no talking about heavy cases of autism here but about isolated symptoms that are hard to pinpoint and hard to realize, yet they are still from the Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Condition doesn’t mean state. Rickety is lost in bed condition. Polish kondycja still means something else.
"Rickety street" is fine (or better than fine), but your interpretation of "rickety street" is not good in any manner.

What is a 'rickety street' then?

You're confused. Just admit that you didn't fully understand the point of mg's post #2 and made an irrelevant comment.


I'm no doctor but I think the only condition (no pun intended) Mr. Janski suffers from is severe assholism.

Anything rickety is structurally unstable, not sturdy enough to serve its purpose, because it was either poorly designed or poorly built, or simply because it is very old and fatigued by its age.

I have this Samsonite folding step stool; it is still like new, in perfect condition, but rickety and never used.
I remember seeing a photograph of “The Crooked House?” somewhere in the city of Sopot in Poland. It looked to me plenty sturdy and in perfect condition, but I think “The Rickety House” would nicely fill the bill, just because its looks alone justify the name.

Or picture an open-air museum well taken care of, and in it a street lined with old houses or other structures, all of them out of plumb: a real rickety street in perfect condition.

Rickety (poorly put together) alliances are unstable and tend to fall apart; rickety and rackety life is something you don’t want to live.

“Rickety” sounds somewhat playful. I don’t know who and when wrote this piece, but I remember it well and every time I recall it, it makes me crack a smile:
Rickety rackety Russ.
We're not allowed to cuss
But damn it to hell, it feels so well
We must, we must, we must.

N.B. This forum is becoming surprisingly successful at breeding dumb asses.

You're making a decisive contribution in this regard. Thank you.

szto?

N.B. This forum is becoming surprisingly successful at breeding dumb asses.

So jog on!

It is disturbing to see the degree of distortion of your self-image and the extend of your grandiose delusions.
The only reason you come here is to feed your narcisstic or sociopathic supply and you do it by:

- using specialised language and gobbledygook to portray yourself as an intellectual and expert. If you really intended to help others you would adapt communication style to the audience/asker.
- answering in a way that exceeds the scope of the matter at hand to wider grammatical topics, which are far beyond of what an asker needs. This is a way you attempt to show how vast your knowledge is.
- belittling, offending, calling names, humilitating and criticising others. This shows your true sadistic nature.
- ending your posts with derogatory and sarcastic expressions and sayings. You do not realise, or to be more precise, you are incapable of realising that they are not witty or funny whatsoever. Really!

You are detached from reality, unable to test it, incapable of self-criticism or even self-reflection. Linguistics, falconry, if I recall it correctly, and other niche speacialisations are not sufficient a form of escapism for you? Seek help but don’t come here to make us the victims of your personality disorders.

@Labtes

I'm speechless. Who taught you to destroy opponents in a debate like that? Jordan Peterson?

It's not a destruction and, it's not a debate.


Nah, look at the genius of Balzac:

"Virtue is always a little too much of a piece. It has no knowledge of the shades between black and white, or of the compromises possible between different human temperaments, by means of which a way may be manoeuvred out of a false position."

"As a general rule, confidences are made to persons below one socially rather than those above. Much more readily than we can employ our superiors in secret affairs, we make use of our inferiors, who consequently become committed sharers in our most hidden thoughts; they are present at our deliberations."

"Youth, moreover, when bent upon wrongdoing does not dare to behold itself in the mirror of consciousness; mature age has seen itself; and therein lies the whole difference between these two phases of life."
:)

I don't see any genius in the above deliberations (from Balzac), unless we are taking about the genius of manipulation and superficiality. Human nature is way more complex than this realistic view of it would want us to believe. It is a perpetual struggle between mental, physical, and spiritual characteristics and the environment is only one of the keys to triggering these emotions and activities. The rest of it is very well hidden from our conscious mind.