News / Hungary Veto on Poland Sanctions may not happen [108]


No one is going to start such a procedure in the forseeable future in Poland. No one, I tell you. Only nationalists like you or Dirk or Snotty may dream about it. But they are going to dream in vain.


Aren't you the one for whom Rich Mazur is a role model on this forum?

News / Hungary Veto on Poland Sanctions may not happen [108]


That's complete nonsense. No one in Poland has ever started to talk about such a procedure except perhaps for a few morons who do not count in Polish politics. Our Great and Dearest Leader Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński is himself against any Polexit and has never given a slightest hint about leaving the EU

But you don't live in Poland, so you don't know and you don't feel the pulse of this country.

USA, Canada / I'm struggling with my culture - I grew up Polish in America. DNA test. [37]



And you have been warned against it, so just ignore posters which you don't like.

Genetics is complicated science, so it is natural that some people want to simplify it and make money out of it. As has been shown, talking about "British" DNA is silly in itself as the British population is composed of many waves of migrations. Basically, there are Celtic people, there are Anglo-Saxon people, and there are descendants of the Viking people there. The old waves of migrations may have perhaps been more homogenous than the present ones. Let's take the Czech people, for example. Even if they consider themselves Slavic, genetics reveal that the population is onle half-"Slavic", that is gene R1a is present in half of them, but the rest are Celto-Germanic (even the once commonly used name for the country "Bohemia" is of Celtic origin). So how can you detect "Czech DNA" in people, for example?

USA, Canada / I'm struggling with my culture - I grew up Polish in America. DNA test. [37]


Indeed, even English DNA would not have been homogenous. I'm sure the gene composition of the population living in the north of England (former Danelaw) may differ substantially from the one of the population living in the south.

I wonder what stuff they sell to the client except for these percentages of his/her ancestry. Is it backed up with some more concrete information like the types of genes or not?

USA, Canada / I'm struggling with my culture - I grew up Polish in America. DNA test. [37]

What specifically are those genes that define "Europe west" or "Europe east"? If these are the R1b genes or the R1a genes respectively, this is simply rubbish. About 60% of the Polish people have the R1a gene, so the remaining 40% of them would not be Polish?

The gene composition of a given population may tell us about the history of people's migrations, but not about people's nationalities.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


And now the Hispanics colonize California and the Africans and Middle Easterners colonize Europe. It is the survival of the fittest!


Saxony (where Upper Lusatia is situated) wants autonomy now and also they say they feel closer to Poland, Czechia or Hungury than to the Wessis. So indeed, there is some hope, Crow.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]



What Germany wants from Europe
By seizing EU top job for Berlin, Angela Merkel could secure her legacy.
politico.eu/article/what-germany-wants-angela-merkel-european-commission-presidency/

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


California was Hispanic from the very times that the white man landed in America and took away the whole continent from the indigenous population by force, don't you know that Mr Narcissist?

Herds of immigrants from Europe arrived guns in hand and settled in America killing many of the indigenous population.

The Hispanic herd arrived earlier than the Anglo-Saxon herd in California, but later on the Anglo-Saxon herd brutally took over the Sunshine State from the Hispanic people.

So if California is taken back by the Hispanics, we shall rightly say that some kind of Justice has been delivered to California.

Language / Common errors in Polish grammar or spelling [26]


I'm not sure what you wanted to say, but in my view the latter is correct [chrząszcz] and not the former [chrząść].

To be sure, there exists the verb "chrzęścić" of which the imperative form would be "chrzęść!' as in the following: "Nie chrzęść tak, proszę! Uszy mnie od tego bolą."

Genealogy / RITTENBERG Family from Poland [8]


And "Israel" doesn't strike you as a Jewish first name?


I gave my arguments for "Kowno". Now it is your turn ...

The picture is too small on my screen, so I cannot decipher anything.

Genealogy / RITTENBERG Family from Poland [8]


The town is most likely Kowno in today's Lithuania. The town of Kowno was on the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that ceased to exist in 1795. Although in that year it became a Russian town, I bet that in 1842 its inhabitans could have still thought of it as "Polish".

The letter "w" can be easily mistaken for the letter "b" by those to whom the name Kowno was unfamiliar. The final "o" which in Polish is pronounced without any phonetic reduction (as it would be in English) may have easily be taken for the ending -er by an English speaker. Hence, in my view, this transformation from "Kowno" to "Cobner".

Genealogy / RITTENBERG Family from Poland [8]

Rittenberg is a popular Jewish surname, so when you google "Jacob Rittenberg" you get lots of results, including the website of a Rittenberg family which is obviously not yours. You should know at least where in Poland your Jacob ("Jakub" in Polish) was born.

There used to be a very good team doing Jewish on-line genealogy research on the French-Polish forum called "Les Forums de Pologne" where they have the section called "Généalogie Juive". The language of the forum is French, however.

klub-beskid.com/phorum

Language / Common errors in Polish grammar or spelling [26]

Indeed, Ironside is right. Not a highly educated engineer as you claim you are makes this type of mistake, това́рищ Obronczka.

Language / Common errors in Polish grammar or spelling [26]


This is because no genuine Polish person who left Poland in their twenty and something years of age would have ever spelled it like that. But a Russian person and - most likely - a Kremlin troll would do that without slightest hesitation.


This is because Polish got it from its mother language - the Proto-Slavic. And that in turn got from its mother language and so on. But since you did not have a mother, such a concept would be totally strange and incomprehensible to you, so I'd better stop here, mhole.

Language / Common errors in Polish grammar or spelling [26]


It is "obrączka" and not "obronczka", you Kremlin troll.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

But West Germany alone can do that ganz bestimmt

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


Can the re-unification be reversed and Eastern Germany be declared a sovereign state?

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


Shut down of the EU? By building a wall perhaps? Should I remind you of the wall built by the Roman Empire to protect them against invading barbaric tribes, most of them Germanic ones? Eventually, Rome agreed to let some of those tribes to enter through the wall and then slowly and consequently the Germanic tribes took over the western part of the Empire eventually ..

Walls is not a solution and never will be (the same applies to any walls between the US and Mexico). What is needed is a new equillibrium between the North and the South. An equillibrium which would involve better economic prospects for the South eventually leading to the levelling of the standards of living on both sides.

But I am not optimistic about that. And what about the climate change which will be forcing more and more migration from the South? I think we are slowly heading towards a global catastrophe which is bound to happen sooner or later ..

News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]


I've never heard or read of this new attack on Poland despite I live in Poland and read Polish press and social media and also watch Polish media.


If we received a multi-billion compensation from Germany as intended by the present Polish government, we could pay this compensation to the Jewish people, so Poland's arse cbe saved.

Ceterum censeo Karthaginem delendam esse!

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

And notice how that other English idiot took the time to check how many times in a day they were taking the till drawer into the back room for empying it.


Simply incredible!

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

Notice that if you went for a four-day trip, you would have been asked for change maybe 20 times ... you are a lucky one!

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

If you don't like it, leave Poland and never come back!

[Droga wolna! Pakuj manatki i wyjeżdżaj, kolego ...]

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

For the last 8 years no one has been complaining about small change in Poland and ... here we go again.

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


With pleasure, you f***** American moron. He should kick you out first because it was none of your business to know how those Polish workers talk to themselves in Polish.


Then the manager should kick your wife out as a kind of bonus for you from the house. That would make both of you rather reluctunt to come to the establishment again and complain of the Polish language spoken on the premises in whatever form. That in turn would have solved any the language problem with Polish that anyone might have at that clinic in future: you, your wife, the Polish workers and last, but not least, the manager himself. Problem solved! And remember, you really should consider lobotomy as a very good method of erasing your Polish experience along with the Polish language!


I am for it. It then would be "it who knows where honey is" rather than "it who eats honey". It is interesting that in Russian the starting consonant is "m" (miedwied'), whereas in Polish it is "n" (niedźwiedź). Likewise, we have "Mikołaj", while the Russians have "Nikołaj", but this time it is the other way round!

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


It is beyond comprehesion that the manager did that rather than kick you and your wife in the ar$e.

What is so funny about the word "niedźwiedź", Łyżko? Originally the world replaced the PIE "ursus" when this one became a sort of taboo word for Proto-Slavs.

Genealogy / Ethnic Poles or Ethnic Germans? My family mystery [37]


It is vey likely indeed that those people who were your distant ancestors in West Prussia, had at one point decided to renounce their Polish heritage completely and after having chosen their new German one, they wanted to close this process symbolically by adopting a new German-sounding surname.

It is quite possible that those ancestors with the Polish-sounding surnames had ceased using Polish at home long before they decided to adopt their German name and felt themselves German rather than Polish/Kashubian. They may (or may not) have been aware that Polish was spoken by their grandparents or to a lesser extent or not at all by their parents. Anyway, their attachment to the Polish language may have been very week or none at all at the time of this surname changing.

The region of West Prussian ceased being Polish and became Prussian as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

Moreover, the father of Irmgard Eichler may have been a kind functionary or clerk in the Prussian administration which could additionally prompt him to change the name from "Dombrowski" into "Eichler".

Notice also that he decided to retain some link to the old surname by chossing "Eichler" rather than any other German name. "Eiche" means "oak tree" in German, so exactly the name of the same species of tree as found in his Polish surname "Dombrowski/Dąbrowski" which name derives its origin from "dąb" (oak tree) or "dąbrowa" (a group of oak trees or an oak wood). That way, the original roots of his family has not been completely erased, even though they were so wittingly hidden. It also means that the man knew the meaning of "Dombrowski" in Polish.

And last but not least, it is not that uncommon for some people to renounce as vigorously one's original language and ethnicity as even going to pondering upon a lobotomy of one's own brain (post #169):

https://polishforums.com/language/words-sound-funny-49893/6/

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


Whoever you may think he is, Rich Mazur is definitely not a son of Marian Mazur.


Like you did with that birth certificate of yours you produced and posted on this forum some time ago?

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


He doesn't need to look like an idiot. He IS an idiot.


You certainly don't remember how Dougpol once complained on this forum that an SKM train in Sopot/Gdańsk/Gdynia was unable to stay and wait for him and his dog at the station five minutes beyond the envisaged time of departure because Doug was late for the train and weather conditions were very harsh on that day of winter time.

That was brilliant!

Life / What are your experiences of care for your loved ones in hospitals here? [75]


Are you crazy or are you on on drugs or both? Dirk never has been a friend of Maf ...


Don't be silly, Ms Atch. It was more like a playground for some old-boy morons ("Liga Morska i Kolonialna" was their name) whom no one was taking seriously even in pre-war Poland.


Where you did you get that from, I wonder? Technically, in the 17th century we did indeed possess a colony somewhere in the Carrabean through the Duchy of Courland and Semigalia whose rulers were some strange vassals to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As far as I know that territory (a small island, nothing to be compared to an empire over which the sun never set) had been eventually grasped by the greedy British whose appetite for new colonies was insatiable. And be assured that we did not receive a penny of reparations from the nasty Brits for stealing that island which is something that Doug may ponder upon when he is sober again ...

The only de facto (but not de iure) colony of Poland was once Ukraine ...