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Technically, the punctuation for English would be a bit different: "I eat vegetables; hence, I am strong.", or "I eat vegetables; therefore, I am strong."
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Not when grading responses; in proposed translations it uses punctuation, of course. I suppose that's what Jerry meant.
It was (wow! was it really two years ago that I started this course?!)
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I think the reason so many people are having difficulties with this sentence is that the use of "so" in the English translation is not standard. All od the other options - "hence", "and so", "therefore" - make more sense. "So" by itself suggest the purpose or intent of eating the vegetables is to become strong (ie, Polish "aby", not "więc"), and would require future tense in English.
While the meaning is roughly the same ("eating vegetables makes me strong") the two sentences convey different things:
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"I eat vegetables so I am strong" (="Jem warzywa, więc jestem silna") expresses an implication.
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"I eat vegetables - that's why I am strong" (="Jem warzywa - to dlatego jestem silna") focuses on the cause, the part "I eat vegetables" is emphasized.
IMO the first one is more universal; the second would be used e.g. as an answer to the question "Why are you strong?" (="Dlaczego jesteś silna?").
PS: remember that if you are male (and are speaking about yourself) you have to use "silny" instead of "silna".
And I don't know why, but every time when the audio (browser) speaks, the man says that he is "silna", and the woman says she is "silny" :D
Cause that wouldn't fit properly as a conjunction which is the idea of the lesson.
according to WSJP.pl it comes form "siła" = force (in phisics), and it is a calque from other languages because siła is a translation from latin "motor"
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I am not sure it is a calque as the Latin “motor” comes from movere = “to move,” so motor = “mover”.
Kalka niem. Motor, ang. engine / motor, fr. moteur 'silnik' (por. łac. mōtor 'ten (to), co wprawia w ruch, porusza' : mōtāre 'poruszać, potrząsać').
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Even in German it is a not really a calque, rather a loan word or a borrowing (calque implies translating). In Polish it is neither, in my opinion. If the word were poruczik or similar you could call it a calque.
so what's the difference between dlatego and wiec in this specific scenario?
"dlatego"/"więc"... not much of a difference. "dlatego" is more like "that is why" and "więc" is simple "so".
OK, added "and so".
I guess no one will be surprised if I say that both voices sound fine to me. Well, apart from "Jem" in the slow male voice, but that's a different issue.
