Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

Then we simply must retrofit it so that it does work, period! Where's the talking point here, Dirk?

Language / Why is Polish such an ugly language? [22]

Germans utter the same slander or heresy! Yet, you all have no choice, since which tongue other than your mother tongue, have you any birthright to speak or in which to make yourselves correctly understood?

:-)

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]

What's the difference? In rubles or in dollars?LOL

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

By wars, you're referring to "wars of attrition" no doubt. Automation marginalizes the need in capitalist countries such as the US, Canada and the UK for a skilled

workforce. Then, the Reagan Era (which didn't happen over night either!), the slow death of hundreds of thousands of jobs in a Darwinist drive to eliminate certain people from society as part of a major eugenics plot, removing descent, affordable medical care, housing, the usual basic issues, in short, the systematic dismantling of the New Deal.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Nothing wrong with self-pride, merely self PRAISE might be questionable, eh Weimarer?:-) "Eigenlob stnkt.aber fremdes Lob klingt!" - "Don't blow your horn, let others blow it for you", something to that effect.

To be sure, the Turingii, along with the Suebii, are indeed among the oldest of the extant Germanic tribes.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Merely take a gander at your average Cracovian. Poland has heavy Celtic admixture.

Language / "Pan Tadeusz" - difficult English translations? [10]

Probably somewhere in the middle, pawian:-)

Language / Polish and other slavic language differences [60]

Once again, "pukac" in Polish = to knock, in Russian "pukaT' = to fart.
etc....

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

Immigration is really just a code word for "cheap labor", as I've posted before:-)
As soon as native Europeans are willing once again to do those jobs which low-wage, non-white
Third Worlders are doing, you will see a miraculous drop in immigration!

Cut off the need at the supply vs. demand level. Problem solved.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

The Celtic admixture is unmistakable.

Language / "Pan Tadeusz" - difficult English translations? [10]

At the time, I was roughly thirty and had already completed Intermediate Polish. As with Shakespeare, possibly Ivanhoe is a better example, one can spend

a lifetime and still not mine its riches, as a native English speaker included!

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

Maf, still an "us vs.them" policy helps nobody, except the person or persons calling the shots! The two nationalist parties are polarizing the country as never before since the end of WWII and I fear for Germany's future! Pandering to fear alone solves nothing. Just look at Donald Trump, Blowhard-in-Chief who'd have been long out of office, if the US had a vote of No Confidence as exists throughout much of Europe.

Language / "Pan Tadeusz" - difficult English translations? [10]

Being a Polish native speaker does help.

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

What makes those non-citizens any less worthy of becoming citizens, albeit they're not from the same "stock" shall we say, as those founded the country?

The whole point is that the argument unwittingly is fueled by racism, mired in the ideology of those who seek control. It's a conundrum, except of course for parties such as the AfD or PEGIDA, looking for quick fixes to difficult problems, as I've been saying.

FDR once remarked that if all the citizens of the US are not being properly served by their government to whom they pay taxes, incidentally,, then NONE are being served,

adequately or otherwise.

Such was true then, and it's true now!!

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Watch out for steppe, it's a duzy!
LOL

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

If we measure "good" government in terms solely of "efficiency" in getting certain things done, indeed National Socialism was
good (though not exactly "clean"!) government. If we measure effective government in terms of satisfying ALL of its citizens, obviously any other
form of government other than a democracy is a dismal failure!

The presence of the latter proves the eventual ineffectiveness of the former.
Churchill said it best of course when he once remarked that democracy was the most ineffectual form of government on earth, but (paraphrasing) we have

come up with none better.

If we continue to revert back to our animal forbearers rather than developing forward, we all might as well pack it in and stay home:-)

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

Joke.

How did the Prime Minister react to the demonstrations?

He was really PiSsed off!
:-)

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

Decency has become such a porous term these days:-)

Language / "Pan Tadeusz" - difficult English translations? [10]

I managed to slog through it while still a third year Polish student. With lots of annotations and a teacher's skilled hand to guide me, I finally vanquished "smok wilnowego"!

:-)

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

Well then, Pawian, what you describe is simply being a decent person:-)

@Dirk,
Only a bigot wouldn't admit to a flaw in their thinking!
From Will Hays whose repressive code loomed over Hollywood as no other before or since to financier/newspaper mogul Hearst himself, Zanuck up through Valenti, most of the real power brokers were W.A.S.P., often old-money W.A.S.P at that, with one or two exceptions who were Roman Catholic.

In the scheme of things, the Jews were smaller potatoes than one might have imagined! Lew Wassermann, Harvey Weinstein??! Please, don't make me chuckleLOL

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

Back to the old stereotypes, are we?

During the '80's, an at that time well-known talk show host got suspended for a while for having made a snide reference (using fake but ethnic-sounding caricatured names) to suggest that Hollywood power brokers were exclusively Jewish or at worst, "controlled" by Jewish money etc.

Well, the NYT (bless their hearts) nailed that guy on the following factoid; THE No.1 power broker in Hollywood until his death, was Mr. Jack Valenti, a non-Jewish, teatoling Born Again Christian convert from Catholicism who never took a dime from anyone, being mega-rich in his own right!!

Language / What do you like in Polish language? [70]

Gosh, thanks so much kaprys!

Guess, I must have heard a much older dialect speaker then:-)
The Polish trilled "r" certainly is one of its most distinctive features. Especially tough for Poles to
pronounce the somewhat flat-sounding 'flap' -r sound of the English, much less the total
absence of the US "r trill. Polish "r" in almost all positions of a word is so trilled, exceptions of course being
words like "gorze" etc. in which the "r" becomes almost swallowed.

Language / What do you like in Polish language? [70]

Oh, I'd almost forgotten! A colleague from Southern Poland, not far from Zakopane once referred to a "zegarek" (watch, as opposed to "zegar", clock) as a "godzinek".

How cute, huh?
:-)

Thanks, Delphadomine! Nice follow up.

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]

I too can remember "A.B" (Aktiebolag). in front of many a business or shop when I was exploring Goteborg:-)

Back to Swedish as a tool in everyday communication, always got that proverbial kick out of Gothenburgers who, perhaps noticing (okay, hearing)
that I'm not Swedish, would try to ever so casually lapse into English, expecting me to do the same!

As a favor more or less, I'd eventually give in and begin chattering away in English, only to be "corrected" by my interlocutor for having poor grammar

and in once instance, sub-standard vocabulary, protestations on my end that I was a native speaker, to no availLOL

As I was on vacation, all I could do was to laugh.

Language / What do you like in Polish language? [70]

To follow up a bit, actually, Polish has those diacritical marks as well, only they mutate differently from Czech. Furthermore, Polish of course never has those acute accents over vowels, ONLY attached to some of the consonants:-)

Language / What do you like in Polish language? [70]

For example, in standard Polish, the only word for "train" is "P - O - C - I - A - G", whereas in former Silesia aka "Schlesien" (today "Slask"), the local dialect

word is "B - A - N - A", straight from the German "Bahn"!

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]

Point of comparison.

When last in Poland, more or less around the same time I had been to Sweden, I noticed that liquor establishment aka shops which sell alcoholic beverages much as a liquor store in the States looked pretty similar to the American variety. However in Sweden, I noticed that such establishments were state-run and that owing to apparently sever problems with drinking, customers stood in a line and ordered their wine or schnaps of choice from a counter, so that folks wouldn't be able to indiscriminantly "stock up" on booze as one does in most other places I've lived in. Penalties for violating drinking laws are extremely severe, I was told.

Just curious as to whether that's still the case.

Love / Asking Polish Girl to be in a relationship [22]

Ohh, I like Ireland:-)

Bet too they're not so litigious either as in the States! Here things are simply over the top.

Off-Topic / Slavic languages - oldest European languages. [12]

I still prefer Polish, even to Russian, Ukainian or Czech.

Language / Site I've been using to learn Polish--what do you people think? [18]

Guided movie watching with easily deletable closed captions in Polish instead of English (or whatever the learner's native language) is always a great method, I've found.

It helps keep both your eyes and ears in touch with natural, everyday spoken language. It can also improve reading skills as well, along with speaking ,listening and understanding!

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