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Borrka   
26 Nov 2010
News / Looted Polish paintings found and return to Poland [14]

Nothing new as a matter of fact - once again a work of art looted in occupied Poland turns up in Germany.
Polish "daub", grandfather Helmut brought from General Government, hidden for years somewhere in the basement, sees light again.
It may bring some Euros for his family in need !

Mrs Eva Aldag from auction house Aldag "didn't know" the painting can be of any value.
Sure, it only about 500 000 Euros LOL.

thenews.pl/international/artykul144312_nazi-plundered-painting-turns-up-in-hamburg-auction.html

But look !
It's already "zurückgezogen" !

lot-tissimo.com/de/cmd/d/o/52.179.1/auk/179/p/1/?PHPSESSID=mh10j7c7d5g8ir8ukt08n9jih2
Borrka   
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]

GERMANS DON'T LIKE YOU!!!

Oh boy !
Germans do LOVE me!
I speak perfect Hochdeutsch from Hannover area.
I'm blond, blue eyed like Adolf's Germanic Uebermensch.
I'm hard working like Germans used to be in Bismarck's times.
I'm emboding German secret dreams and fantasies of civilized Poles:).
Civilized under German influence of course.
Borrka   
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]

exactly Pommeranians ..... NOT Poles

Nobel prize for "Poles" living in those old times, genius LOL.
Pommeranias were much closer to the tribes united by the Piast dynasty than for example Masovians (today Warsaw) or Cracow area Slavs (White Croatia).
Pomeranias were Western Slavs same way like Polanes, Lusythians, Obodrites etc.
It's hell of ignorance to speak about Poles in Adam and Eva days.

And before that it used to be german lands before Poles wandered westward

As it used to be Neanderthaler before Germanic tribes wandered west
ward LOL.

Do you call Krakow Heimat Borrka?

Yes I do. Got no problems with German Gastarbeiter hired by Polish kings.
Borrka   
26 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]

a mass immigration of French into Poland and then claiming that territory a part of France.

Exactly the way Germans colonized Pommerania !
Perhaps you don't know it but what you call "Northern parts of Poland heavily populated by Germans" used to be Slavic and part Polish lands before German annexation.

Germans were same way "newcomers" like Poles in Wilno .
Pommerania was Germanized and by no means Polonized as you suggest !.

Stll I'm strongly against all kinds of expulsion.
What is your time line to accept sombody's right to his "Heimat" ?
700 years ?
Maybe 500 would be enough ?
But under 400 years people should be expelled or "Volhynia - slaughtered".
It's really striking to watch your double standards, Nathan.
Borrka   
20 Nov 2010
History / Polish president Mościcki and Hermann Göring hunting together in 1938 [76]

Most interesting if seen in the later "slavic subhuman" context what many now (thanks to after war history writing) see as the most driving force behind the Nazi actions which I started to doubt for awhile now.

There are at least two subcategories in German (not Nazi only) attitude towards Slavs:
"good" Slavs having their national agenda fully in line with German chauvinistic objectives and
"bad" Slavs opposing it.
Just some examples:
Poles and Serbs were bad (even today they are) for well known reasons and Slovaks, Croats, Ukrainians were "good" or at least useful.

There was always some DNA-magic behind these stereotypes like "Ukrainian peasants are less spoiled with Jewish blood than Polish Mischlings" but it was a nice good nite story only for Helmut and Helga in SS, HJ and BDM uniforms.

Useful and useless are the keywords.
Borrka   
1 Nov 2010
Language / Paddy, Jock and Taffy; origin and translation to Polish [27]

Terms like Jock, Paddy or Taffy - any idea of their origin ?
How far are they derogatory ?
What would be Polish translation ?

Paddy, if from Patrick, sounds like Polish Pepik (Joseph) for Czechs to me.
Borrka   
1 Nov 2010
Po polsku / Tragedia jezykowa, czyli "stay on topic" LOL. [95]

Jezyk, jest obok wygladu zewnetrznego (plus higiena osobista) podstawowym kryterium oceny poznawanych ludzi.
To kryterium jest "szybkie", nie wymaga oceny wiedzy ogolnej, inteligencji nabytej i wrodzonej.
Pozwala identyfikowac cwoka przez trywialnosc jego jezyka mowionego.
To skarbnica wiedzy o ludziach i nie do konca wiaze sie z lokalnymi gwarami.

Natomiast nie sadze, by dotyczylo to specyficznie jezyka polskiego.
Bez trudu identyfikuje cymbala, lub prostaka , mowiacego po niemiecku.

PS. Mozecie nazywac to puryzmem jezykowym.
W wypadku gdy telewizyjna prezenterka mowi jak kuchta, zgadzam sie na brutalna i chamska krytyke.
Nie czepiam sie przypadkowych bledow.
Kazdemu sie zdarzaja.
Borrka   
9 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

BB in his element again lol.
Bismarck's views on the Polish question can be compared with Adolf Hitler only - both great and successful German politicians.
However I have to agree: Hitler proved to be more pragmatic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck
His policies concerning the Poles of Prussia were generally unfavourable to them,[21] furthering enmity between the German and Polish peoples. The policies were usually motivated by Bismarck's view that Polish existence was a threat to the German state; Bismarck, who himself spoke Polish,[22] wrote about Poles: "One shoots the wolves if one can."[23] He also said: "Beat Poles until they lose faith in a sense of living. Personally, I pity the situation they're in. However, if we want to survive - we've got only one option - to exterminate them.[24]
Borrka   
9 Oct 2010
Po polsku / Tragedia jezykowa, czyli "stay on topic" LOL. [95]

Demagogia.
Nalezaloby udowodnic, iz forma "od Wedla" nie byla germanizmem - od kiedy to przedwojenne zwroty sa wolne od germanizmow?
Raczej odwrotnie.

To, ze matolki z agencji reklamowych usiluja dzis osiagnac efekt "prezentu od firmy", jako zywo nie wyklucza wprowadzenia germanizmu.
Zapewne jakis cwok wymyslil, iz lepiej przekazuje to wiez producent - towar - nabywca i poooszlo !
Firmy prezenty rzadko daja.

Kalka "von/od" jest powszechna i juz naturalna w gwarze slaskiej.
W jezyku polskim razi.
Borrka   
29 Sep 2010
Po polsku / Tragedia jezykowa, czyli "stay on topic" LOL. [95]

Sztuczne i bardzo rozpowszechnione zapozyczenie jezykowe: procedowac.

Dzis w telewizorze politycy ciagle "proceduja", wiec jezyk pewnie tego potworka przyswoi.
Borrka   
26 Sep 2010
News / Coach crash in Germany. Polish coach... many dead [26]

Maybe one of them saw the other to late or so...?

Look BB, I know A10/A113 junction like the back of my hand and there is nothing special about it, even by rainy weather. All you need is to to observe the right of way.

Sunday driver versus long-distance operator make rather a clear case too.

BTW.Springer's Bild is number 1 in Germany !.
Borrka   
26 Sep 2010
News / Coach crash in Germany. Polish coach... many dead [26]

it seems this crash was not the fault of the bus driver...

It was already confirmed on TV by German police.

Anyway, interesting comment from the German Bild.de:
Schwere Unfälle polnischer Reisebusse gibt es immer wieder - im Ausland und in Polen selbst. Ein schlechter technischer Zustand der Fahrzeuge, Übermüdung der Fahrer und überhöhte Geschwindigkeit gelten oft als Ursachen.

One has to be a real *********** to refer to the bad technical shape of Polish buses in clear case like that !
Borrka   
24 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

"more opportunity in Poland"

But only for Poles which are used to local ... hmm ... conditions.
Returning (in the 90-ties) was probaly the best decision of my life and quite a challenge.

However my dream job would be "Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire." LOL
Borrka   
19 Sep 2010
History / Lwów, Wilno ... kresy - Poland have lost enormoust part of our heritage... [389]

I don't see what were you pointing at.

The site makes collection of different links and among them you can find a map with distribution of nationalities in "Polish" prewar Lithuania.

Sorry but if I post link to the map only, you will not be able to see it (only information from Angelfire admin).

BTW. Some German links there are quite interesting but rather off topic.
Borrka   
18 Sep 2010
History / Lwów, Wilno ... kresy - Poland have lost enormoust part of our heritage... [389]

All the surrounding territories, even as far as Holm, Peremyshel and around Vilnius were settled from times unknown by Ukrainians and Lithuanians,

Wrong again my friend.
Let us discuss Vilnius-area only and look at the pre-war minorities structure of "Polish" Lithuania:
angelfire.com/de/lubartow/Pommern.html

Truth hurts.
Borrka   
18 Sep 2010
History / Lwów, Wilno ... kresy - Poland have lost enormoust part of our heritage... [389]

During occupation of the Lithuanian capital by Poland

Good joke.
Polish "occupation" of Wilno having 60+% Polish "minority", 30+ % Jews and last but not least 1% Lithuanians.
BTW. Using these criteria and similar figures one can speak of Ukrainian occupation of Lviv today LOL.
Borrka   
18 Sep 2010
History / German cemeteries in Wroclaw [17]

Dead bodies are dead. They can't be your enemy.

Well ... I like your pragmatism.
And my guess is that majority of the young Poles today are ready to share this opinion.
But older generation (even my parents' one), given their post-war trauma and commie brainwashing was ready to accept the most barbaric "pay backs" like destroying on purpose old German cementaries or removal German tombstone inscriptions.

Just in order to prove the "eternal" Polish character of lands Poland gained as result of ww2.

Thanx God it's over now.
Borrka   
13 Sep 2010
Po polsku / Tragedia jezykowa, czyli "stay on topic" LOL. [95]

Poniewaz w sasiednim watku pojawilo sie upomnienie, faktycznie rozpoczynam nowy.

Poprawnosc jezyka polskiego jest zagrozona, a zagrozenie lekcewazone.
Organa z urzedu kontrolujace te poprawnosc nie wypelniaja swej roli.

Dlatego bede tu wpisywal przejawy niechlujstwa jezykowego i prosze innych o to samo.
To raczej nie kwalifikuje sie do angielskojezycznego dzialu jezykowego.
Inny zakres.

Zaczne od tego, co juz napisalem.

Strasznie irytuje powszechnie stosowany w reklamach germanizm "od " i tu nazwa firmy reklamujacej swe produkty.
To jest moze zabawne w gwarze slaskiej "ujek od moja libsta", ale nie w powszechnym uzyciu.
Organa kontrolne nie reaguja, napisalem kiedys o tym na forum Gazety Wyborczej i zostalo wykasowane - wiadomo z czego zyja gazety.
Borrka   
13 Sep 2010
Po polsku / Przyjmowanie Komunii świętej w kościołach w Polsce [43]

Niedawno slyszalem spikerke TVN uzywajacej formy "w cudzyslowiu".
Na wszystkich kanalach telewizji slyszymy w reklamach makabryczne germanizmy, typu "od Gillette".

Buractwo, ktore najechalo i zatrudnilo sie za pol ceny w miastach, po polsku mowic nie potrafi
i jezyka nie szanuje.
Poslanka (do Sejmu RP) nie widzi roznicy miedzy "bynajmniej", a "przynajmniej".

Porownywanie bledow w jezyku obcym i ojczystym, to demagogia.
Jedno swiadczy o dosc naturalnym niedouczeniu.
Drugie, winno byc tepione na kazdym kroku.

Wytykane i osmieszane.

PS. Nie znaczy, ze sam nie popelniam bledow.
Ale sie staram.
Borrka   
2 Sep 2010
History / Why did the reformation not have a huge effect on Poland? [28]

Starting from Vasa kings Polish national unity was based on Catholicism and modified pro-Vatican Orthodoxy (Uniats).
As a matter of fact similar situation like in France but by far less politically successful.

In addition during so called Swedish Deluge Polish protestants (at least many of prominent protestants like Radziwils or Jan Amos Komensky) supported Swedish aggressor what had dramatical consequences for traditional tolerance in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.