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Polonius3   
19 Jul 2011
Language / Virile and non-virile confusion [7]

You must mean męskoosobowe (or is it męsko-osobowe?), in other words, nouns
referring to a male person. They get special treatment in modern Polish.*
One example: masculine personal nouns have the same ending in both the genetive and accusative plural, whereas others masculine nouns have nominative = accusative.
Nominative plural is also different for masculine personal nouns: Polak~Polacy as opposed to wilk~wilki.
Adjectives also have different endings: mądrzy Polacy as opposed to mądre wilki.

That barely scratches the surface, of coruse, Good luck in mastering this aspect of our beautiful Polish tongue!

*In the past one could encounter in old literary texts things like wilcy for wolves and męże for husbands in the nom. plural.
Polonius3   
18 Jul 2011
Food / Lentil pierogi & mushroom gołąbki [23]

Lentils (soczewica) alone may seem bland, but the pierogi are stuffed with cooked drained lentils combined with fried chopped onion and pressed garlic and generously seasoned with salt, pepper and marjoram. The onion can be fried in chopped bacon for added flavour. Quite nice actually and something likely to appeal to bean/legume lovers and vegetarians.
Polonius3   
18 Jul 2011
Food / Lentil pierogi & mushroom gołąbki [23]

Anyone familair with lentil-filled pierogi? These are suppsoedly a speciality of the Kurpie region.
Or meatless gołąbki made with rice, barley or buckhwheat and mushrooms and drenched with creamy mushroom gravy insted of red toamto sauce? Some people serve these for Wigilia. Both would probably be a boon to vegetarians.
Polonius3   
17 Jul 2011
Feedback / Language used here - how come this forum is all in English? [78]

I would think that people are attracted to such a forum because they are interested in things Polish for practical, personal, cultural or other reasons. Polonians (people of Polish descent not born in Poland) are often proud of their heritage and want to learn more about it. Some have dropped round, stayed a bit and exited because of all the Pole-bashing which was not to their liking. Is there any similar Ukrainian Forum in English? If so, does it stand out for its anti-Ukrainianism?
Polonius3   
17 Jul 2011
Life / Polish horror films [10]

I found these online:
AAirport
Antychryst (film)
Apteczka pierwszej pomocy
DDiabeł (film 1972)
Diabeł (film 2005)
Dom Sary
Drzewa (film)
Duch z Canterville
HHiena (film)
H cd.Horror w Wesołych Bagniskach
KKlątwa Doliny Węży
Koszmar minionej zimy
LLokis. Rękopis profesora Wittembacha
Lubię nietoperze
MMedium (film 1985)
Mistrz tańca
OOsobisty pamiętnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany
PPora mroku
P cd.Powinowactwo (film)
Powrót wilczycy
Pożarowisko
Problemat profesora Czelawy
Przeraźliwe łoże
UUpiór (film)
WWidziadło
Wilczyca (film)
££za księcia ciemności
*Due to some mysterious meanders of Gatesdom the first letters doubled but I'm too lazy to delete them.
Polonius3   
17 Jul 2011
Feedback / Language used here - how come this forum is all in English? [78]

Merged: PBF (Pole-Bashing Forum) instead of PF?

I don't know if any statistics are kept on the negativity towards Poland, Poles and things Polish displayed by all-too-many PF threads and posts, but a casual observation might suggest that PBF (Pole-Bashing Forum) would be a more apt abbreviation. Any comments on this?
Polonius3   
17 Jul 2011
Genealogy / The surname HESS [10]

WAJSIEWICZ: Patronymic meaning son of Wajs (Polish respelling of German Weiss /white/). Silesia was an area of particular Germanic/Slavonic cultural and linguistic interaction and cross-fertilisation.
Polonius3   
16 Jul 2011
Genealogy / The surname HESS [10]

Some 500 people in today's Poland sign themselves Hess. The largest single concentration (about 200) is in Górny Śląsk (Upper Silesia). But there's not a single Esowicz. The -wicz of Esowicz is definitely a Polish spelling.
Polonius3   
16 Jul 2011
Genealogy / The surname HESS [10]

ESOWICZ, HESOWICZ: Neitehr is currently used in Poland as far as I can determine. As for meaning, Esowicz would defintiely be a patronymic tag. Since all names starting with the letter 'e' are of foreign origin, it might have come from the German names Essmont, Esmann or Esmund. Hesowicz could have come from the German name Hess which was derived from the German region of Hessia. However. if you have both spellings in your family circle, chances are that they are simply variant spellings of the same name.
Polonius3   
15 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Polish food is basic and simple, but sophisticaiton is not the question. There is no more primitve food than Mexican and yet it is very popular.

I think it's the lack of a restaurant culture. When Italians went ot America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries they opeed up restaurants, cafés and of course food shops, bakeries, etc. Poles opened grocries, bakeries, butcher shops and the like but few eateries. This has somehow persisted.
Polonius3   
15 Jul 2011
Food / Singles (fake cheese) in Poland [19]

Ever try ser tylżycki, a yellow hard cheese? For some reason it is hard to get in Poland nowadays but used to be quite common. And very nice!
Polonius3   
15 Jul 2011
Food / Singles (fake cheese) in Poland [19]

One of the most atrocious concoctions of the American fake-food industry is something called Velveeta. It is an orange-coloured gummy substance which the US government has not allowed to be called cheese for many years. (They use the euphemism 'cheese food'.) Ihave also seen it in Poland, not called Velveeta, but the same kind of gunk pressed into plastic-wrapped single slices. Do Polish people actually eat that stuff? Is the word 'ser' allowed on the packaging?
Polonius3   
15 Jul 2011
News / Famous Pickup Artist in Poland now [75]

The question is: why are so many women stupid enough to fall for the cheap sweet talk of two-bit pickup artists?
Polonius3   
15 Jul 2011
History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]

A Polabian People's Republic? It's surprising Uncle Joe didn't create a Polabian People's Republic between Poland and West Germany in place of the DDR. He wanted to emasculate the German nation and make it incapable of ever re-achieving major power status, so that would have surely done the trick. He could have easily justified it with his propaganda which could explain away anything. With Poland he used historical arguments in the west (the return of historic, age-old Piastian lands to Poland) but in the east employed ethnographic criteria - whatever served his purposes.

The question is who would he have populated Polabia with?
Slavicised Volksdeutsche, Wends of course, but there wasn't enough of them, some Czechs, Poles, Kashubians? A German minority would probably have remained, but they should have been allowed to live only near the Polish and Czech border, so as to preclude any future German designs to annex them. The language could have been an updated, expanded and reconstructed form of unified and standardised Wendish (no more upper and lower Lusatian).... And then the alarm clock went off and it was business as usual...
Polonius3   
15 Jul 2011
Food / Pancakes with cottage cheese? [40]

Polish cheese pancakes (rauchy z serem) were made by my babcia. You pour the batter in small pancake portions into the hot butter or oil in frying pan, and when the bottom has cooked somewhat a slice of pressed (well-drained) farmer cheese (twaróg) is placed on top and gently pressed in. A bit more batter of added to cover the cheese. When top batter has set, you flip over and fry the other side to a golden brown. Serve hot dusted with caster sugar.

The addition of cheese enhanced the nutritional value of the racuchy. A typical dish for Friday and the fastdays of Lent and Advent.
Also very good are racuchy z jabłkami. Instead of cheese, a few thin slices of apple can be placed on top of the pancakes or addded to the batter.
Polonius3   
14 Jul 2011
Language / How do Poles feel about foreigners learning their language? [105]

Form my observation, Poles are usually delighted when a foreigner makes the effort to speak their language, even if he mangles it. They are nothing like the pedantic-chauvinistic French who won't give you the time of day if you don't speak "la belle langue française" like a native.

In my particular case, most Poles cannot detect from my Polish that I was born, raised and educated in the good ol' USA.
Polonius3   
13 Jul 2011
News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]

Were Jews banned from higher educaton or was a quota set reflecting their actual share of the population? Jews accounnd for 10% of Poland's people but were grossly overrepresented in mannfaculties.
Polonius3   
13 Jul 2011
Genealogy / Surnames: Sierzputowski & Skrocki [25]

SIERZPUTOWSKI: topo nick from Sierzputy

MARCELEWSKI: topo nick from Marcelewo (Marcelville)

KOCHMAN: German or Yiddish for cook.
Polonius3   
13 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American groups in Southern California [26]

It is said that Californians, esp. southern Californians, are like a breakfast cereal. If you take away the fruits and nuts, only the flakes are left!
Polonius3   
13 Jul 2011
News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]

What about illegal aliens who have entered illegally and immediately disapepar in ghetto communities (esp. Hispanics, and many Mexicans are hard for Causacians to tell apart ) and immediately go on the dole. In fact, their main purpsoe for coming to the USA was to obtain undeserved benefits for themselves and their families. They have no love or loyalty towards their host country or its people, but are there only to milk it for what it's worth.
Polonius3   
12 Jul 2011
Love / Polish men are their own special breed ... [96]

I am convinced that red-blooded Polish males belong to a rycerski ród (are a knightly breed) and are protectors of orphans and widows and their fellow-man in need, are altruistic, high-minded, embody civic virtues and are defenders of the faith. Admittedly, slightly errant knights occasionally do turn up, but eventually they too fall into line. Most of the time, at least.

Unfortunately, some Polish females (must be the feminist brain-washing?!) to not buy into this line of reasoning. Are they too naive or simple to accept simple, obvious facts?
Polonius3   
12 Jul 2011
News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]

If Piłsudski's federalist concept were to be implemented, that essentially would mean the restoration of the old P-L Commonwealth. Under the wise, prudent and just guidance of Mother Poland Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Silesians, Kashubs, Belarussians, Lemkos, Germans and others could be guaranteed cultural and to some extent self-governing autonomy in their respecive areas.

Unfortunately, the Soviet-installed PRL regime promtoed the Dmowskian view of a truncated, compact, ethnically homogeneous Poland after WW2.
Polonius3   
12 Jul 2011
News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]

Restore the borders of the Pol-Lithuanian Commonwealth at its height under Warsaw's rule, and I'm sure Poles will agree to grant minorities far-reaching autonomy. That is far less likely in today's truncated mini-Polabd.
Polonius3   
12 Jul 2011
News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]

Up until recently it was regarded as 'politically incorrect' to question multi-culturalism, diversity, immigration, etc. Tante Angela broke the precedent when she ciritcised the abuses of 'multi-kulti'.

Although it has a steadily growing coomuntiy of Vietnamese and other foreigners, Poland is still not a major attraction for economic immigrants or even refugees. Those who do come mainly see it as a gateway to affluent, united Germany and other points west.

America is a land of immigrant -- even the Amerindians were transplanted Mongolians who crossed the frozen-over Bering Straits from Siberia. But immigration has always caused various problems, and the terrorist issue has added a new dimension to the question. That prompts me to wonder:

Is there some target quota of foreign-born in a given country that should more or less be adhered to in order to avoid major problems?

Can immirgants be allowed to form insular communities (ghettos) without learning the host country's language and ways?
Should they be given the same rights and privileges (social benefits, education, healthcare, etc.) as taxpayers who are bankrolling the system?
Is it intolerant, inhumane or otherwise reprehensible to deport illegal aliens?
Poland is still at a stage when the necessary legal, social and infrastructural framework can be rationally planned in anticipation of possible increased future immigration.