Language / Counting of Polish currency [28]


That might be considered a sort of "political linguistics". In fact, every language enables its speakers to express everything those speakers have the need to express - both in form and substance.

Even though I consider some concepts to be expressed more elegantly in one language than in another, I tend think linguistic elegance is best thought of within the limits of a given language, in which the same concept can be put across elegantly of crudely.

Language / Counting of Polish currency [28]


Perhaps it could be asked why some languages dropped gender. English used to have it too. All IndoEuropen languages have (or had) some semblance of grammatical gender, or at least gender bias (ship, car: she).

Having said that, grammatical gender, as well as many other grammatical constructs, are not a logical necessity in a language, and millions of people easily survive and communicate without it (for instance Chinese)

While some arguments could perhaps be made on a deeply philosophical scale (materialistic approach of evolution and opposites in nature would logically induce the need for genders), on a linguistic level a short discussion on the history of grammatical gender can be found here: indoeuro.bizland.com/archive/article11.html

Love / My ex from last year and this coming weekend [22]


destinasjontromso.no/english/useful_info_articles_the_northern_lights. html

Travel / Have you ever been in Poland? [111]


So why do you constantly pis.s on her heritage? Are you sure she's Polish?


And yet on every occasion you claim the Poles stole russian words, except when we deal with vulgarisms. In those cases of course the words are of Polish origin and imposed on russians by Poles.


You resent all Poles. Period.


This is just another proof how you consider the readers of this forum to be fools. But your words are here for all to see your anti-polonism


So ave respect tot the members of your family who fought for that soil and don't s.hit on them by s.hiting on Polish culture and heritage.


So do contribute something constructive. If you need to spew hatred towards Poles then perhaps you should really join "Pravda" forums. You will feel at home there, katsap.

Love / My ex from last year and this coming weekend [22]


So if I told you the sky could be green you would not believe me?

Language / Polish words shared with the french language [29]


Not at all.
I think your post is a good one, and may actually help some learn a little more about the language.

Life / News about Marek Halter (artist) [5]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Halter

UK, Ireland / Do all Polish newcomers to the UK speak some English? [14]

Oh Liza, don't take this half brained polonophobiac seriously. Had it been up to him he would claim that the only reason Poles walk in upright position is because russians taught them :)

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


It's not "supposed" to represent anything. It DOES represent something you are ashamed of. You really don't recognize the soviet uniform on that photo? I'm sure you at least recognize the Nazi uniforms.


Of course not. How would an Nazisoviet aggressor rely on its victim.

Travel / Have you ever been in Poland? [111]


Because liars are not dependable.


I never particularly liked Warsaw actually :) Born and raised in Galicia, now living in Ontario for the last ~15 years. Family, work, property. Can't just pickup and go because some katsap fart spews hatred and anti-polonism on PF.

Language / Polish words shared with the french language [29]


dom: an ancient, prehistoric word shared by many languages

French dôme dome
Italian duomo cathedral
Medieval Latin domus house
Greek domos house
Sanskrit dam

czlowiek:
In protoslavonic, the etymology of the word indicates "living in a group", and it is a composite denoting a descendant of a family.The word is protoslavic and is not regarded as a borrowing in any slavic languages. Some of the variants of the ancient word are:

lusatian - èłowjek
bulgarian - човек
croatian - èovjek
russian - человек

morze: even more ancient word shared by many languages

samudra - Sanskrit
more - Sebo-Croatian
morze - Polish
mora - Belarus
mare - Latin
mor (moroedd) - Welsh
mor - Breton
mar - Etruscan


Hid? What? There is nothing to hide, as the following show:

Slownik Wyrazow Obcych (Dictionary Of Foreign Words) - swo.pwn.pl
Or this one? This is my actual dictionary, used a lot in yonder years, as the attached picture shows. There are 16,000 entries in it.

In all my years on basic levels of education, and then in various universities, I have never been acquainted with an idea of linguistic shame. All languages are influenced by, or influence other languages to a greater or lesser degree. See the English language, aka "the greatest borrower". Many languages stem form a common root, such as PIE, Old Slavonic etc.

Your post carries the usual attempt to pinch, venom towards anything Polish, and while spewing that venom you commenced a journey that has taken you beyond being a common liar. You are now officially on your merry way to making yourself a village fool of PF.

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Travel / Have you ever been in Poland? [111]

so how come you make statements like the one below?


You appear to be so confused that not only you cannot produce any truthful statements, but you are even unable to construct a half-believable lie!

Language / Polish words shared with the french language [29]

The number of French words in Polish is not as large as it is in English, but still substantial.

Language / Duzy / wielki - synonyms? [44]


Bull$hit.
The word is pre-IndoEuropen in origin.

Polish: wielki
Albanian: vlerë
Latin: valore
Hittite: wali
German: Viel


I wouldn't put much weight on Michal's knowledge of linguistics in general, and on his Polish language skills in particular. Polish doesn't appear to be his first language.

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


Courage? I'd call it stupidity.
Do you mean that courage

Language / Duzy / wielki - synonyms? [44]


You could say "wielka" decyzja and it would be correct. But you could also say "wazna", "przelomowa". All these could really be synonyms in this case. Context will sometimes dictate whether "wielki" is the right choice, but I'd say that considering the example here, "wielki" is a more generic word and thus will be safe to use.

Another thing to consider is the style one assumes. "przelomowa" (groundbreaking) would apply mostly to really big as.s evens. Still, I'll use it sometimes in reference to completely routine events, just to add color to the speech. That's basically similar to what one would do in English to lighten the mood somewhat.

"Wielki" may also mean "great" (as in great news), although "wspanialy" would be more appropriate in this context.

Language / Duzy / wielki - synonyms? [44]


that is correct. Much like Alexander Wielki or Wielka Brytania (but not Alexander Duzy or Duza Brytania, these are incorrect)


It has nothing to do with any objective size. It's more to do with your perception.
In case of a car, a short dialog that may be of help:

- Ale duzy samochod!
- Duzy? Ten samochod jest wielki!

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


That is something Poles have no reson to be proud of.
Still, there are some (let's call them "mitigating") circumstances;
The land in question (less than 1% of Czekoslovakia) was an area around Cieszyn, which had been previously taken (stolen?) from Poland in 1919 when Poland... was involved in another military conflict and had no troops to spare to defend. Simply, Czekoslovakia took this land from Poland by force. Kinda what goes around comes around here. The 1919 takeover of Polish territories was widely condemned by Western European countries so a referendum was to be held within the area to decide which land would belong to which of the two countries. The referendum never took place.

Also, if that is any consolation, not a single Czech died as a result or Poland reclaiming its lands.


I'm talking September 1939, when Brits had no radar, even fewer pilots than during the Battle of Britain and most importantly, were not expecting thousands of planes dropping tonnes of explosives around their country side. Begining of WW2 was unlike any other attack before that. No country was ready for this. If you stuilll have doubts... how did Brits AND French do in 1940 at Dunkirk? There was simply no country in 1939 that had the military strength to oppose Germans with meaningful results.

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


Brits would likely be speaking German if it was not for Americans, Russians, Poles, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans etc. Brits simply didn't have enough military power to defend themselves. For instance, their land forces were in size comparable to that of Czekoslovakia.

Travel / Have you ever been in Poland? [111]


You do. You lie a lot on this forum, and it has been proven to you many times.


Don't you see the absurdity of that statement?

Travel / Have you ever been in Poland? [111]


It has been proven to you on this very forum that life expectancy in Poland is actually on the rise. How come you keep on repeating the same lie if by now even you know better?

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


In the last months of WW I, Americans dropped more steel on German heads than both sides of the conflict in all preceding years of the conflict put together. In a word, it was a slaughter.

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]

Lewis, honestly, stop butchering your own language. For fucksake, you must have SOME skills. Have you ever tried touching your nose with the tip of your tongue? See if you can do at least that.

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


You spelled it much better than many words in your own language, dear. You're on the right track. Keep up the good job. After all, with so many Poles in England, who needs English, right? :)

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


You never know, you just never know:

It turns out that tasty Polish cuisine really is fit for the Queen.

A Polish-owned catering company has become a select supplier of tid-bits and tasty morsels for Britain's chattering classes at events which draw the likes of Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair, Poland's mass-circulation Metro daily reported

people.monstersandcritics.com/royalwatch/news/article_1185510.php/Poli sh_cuisine_is_fit_for_Britains_Queen

Next step for the Queen - brush up her Polish skills, and what better way to start than coming over to PF

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


That's cool. As long as some Poles rule the British job market.
Happy splashing.

Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]


dada?

Love / My girlfriend thinks she's pregnant! Pomocy!! [75]


Good job.
This thread will come handy to you next time when she is not pregnant.

News / Things you might not know about Poland [76]


I think Jewish people are somewhat a special case (not necessarily unique though) in that they rarely considered themselves anything other than Jews. Jewish encyclopedia claims he was a German Jew.

See here: jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=56&letter=K

Who am I to argue otherwise? Who are you to argue otherwise.

Besides, the man fought to establish a Jewish state. In my personal view, he was neither German nor Polish. He was a Jew.

Life / Homosexuals in Poland / Hands off (PETITION) [797]


The same can be said about politicians, artists, writers etc.


are you trying to suggest you are worried about homosexuals' wellbeing?


Homosexuality was a part of some religions for millenia.


But homosexuality is not new. It is likely as old as human kind. Why would you like to discard that part of the human tradition?