Lyzko
16 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
That's right, the Croatians stole 'em allLOL
That's right, the Croatians stole 'em allLOL
Lyzko
16 Feb 2019
Language / How many tenses and cases in Polish? [33]
And your English posts are any more coherent, save for the politically correct here on PF who deem every decent attempt at English a victory of perfect usage??!
Who are you kiddin' pal
And your English posts are any more coherent, save for the politically correct here on PF who deem every decent attempt at English a victory of perfect usage??!
Who are you kiddin' pal
Lyzko
16 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
DIrk, what past wrongs did Jews en masse commit other than being the political bargaining chips of European aristocracy; bring them in when they're need, kill then off of harass them to death when they're no longer deemed useful??!
You've got your lense cap ass backwards, dude.
DIrk, what past wrongs did Jews en masse commit other than being the political bargaining chips of European aristocracy; bring them in when they're need, kill then off of harass them to death when they're no longer deemed useful??!
You've got your lense cap ass backwards, dude.
Lyzko
16 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
They're trying in their own way to rectify past wrongs, turn the tables on false beliefs and distinguish healthy from sick traditions!
I don't like Pence or Trump any more than you do, but I applaud Pence for having the guts to stand his ground and not to cave.
They're trying in their own way to rectify past wrongs, turn the tables on false beliefs and distinguish healthy from sick traditions!
I don't like Pence or Trump any more than you do, but I applaud Pence for having the guts to stand his ground and not to cave.
Lyzko
16 Feb 2019
Language / How many tenses and cases in Polish? [33]
Nobody's got to "know", or even to do, anything. Life is merely more rewarding if one tries, as most of the problems we have in communicating revolves around language as a tool, a scalpel, rather than simply a blunt instrument, and are usually of our own making due solely to our OWN laziness!
:-)
Nobody's got to "know", or even to do, anything. Life is merely more rewarding if one tries, as most of the problems we have in communicating revolves around language as a tool, a scalpel, rather than simply a blunt instrument, and are usually of our own making due solely to our OWN laziness!
:-)
Lyzko
16 Feb 2019
Language / How many tenses and cases in Polish? [33]
Bzdura, only seven in use: Nominativ, Dative, Dative, Accusative, Locative, Instrumental, Vocative!
Don't scare folks off so.
Bzdura, only seven in use: Nominativ, Dative, Dative, Accusative, Locative, Instrumental, Vocative!
Don't scare folks off so.
Lyzko
15 Feb 2019
Language / How many tenses and cases in Polish? [33]
My pleasure, always! Or as we say on the "other side" of the Atlantic, "Z przyjemnoscia!" (minus the required diacritical signsLOL)
tarsape@gmail.com
My pleasure, always! Or as we say on the "other side" of the Atlantic, "Z przyjemnoscia!" (minus the required diacritical signsLOL)
tarsape@gmail.com
Lyzko
15 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
American English with all our barely distinguishable vowel combos, slurred consonants allowing words to run together to the point of virtual unrecognizability, not to mention all but untranslatable verbal short hand isn't torture for Poles as well??
"Difficulty" cuts both ways, my man, and don't you believe the politically correct adulation abroad of American English.
It's like Dillinger himself is quoted as saying before the Feds busted him: "I go where the money is!"
AMERICA = MONEYLAND!!! End of speech:-)
American English with all our barely distinguishable vowel combos, slurred consonants allowing words to run together to the point of virtual unrecognizability, not to mention all but untranslatable verbal short hand isn't torture for Poles as well??
"Difficulty" cuts both ways, my man, and don't you believe the politically correct adulation abroad of American English.
It's like Dillinger himself is quoted as saying before the Feds busted him: "I go where the money is!"
AMERICA = MONEYLAND!!! End of speech:-)
Lyzko
15 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
Assimilated Polish Jews most certainly did identify themselves as Poles of Jewish lineage! Although it is true that those who typically lived in shtettls, the vast majority of them, considered themselves by and large YIDDISH, and not even Polish-speaking Jews, loyal only to one another, nonetheless, they certainly wanted to be treated as human beings, citizens or not.
It's always easy to make the expedient rather than the right decision.
Assimilated Polish Jews most certainly did identify themselves as Poles of Jewish lineage! Although it is true that those who typically lived in shtettls, the vast majority of them, considered themselves by and large YIDDISH, and not even Polish-speaking Jews, loyal only to one another, nonetheless, they certainly wanted to be treated as human beings, citizens or not.
It's always easy to make the expedient rather than the right decision.
Lyzko
15 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
Johnny, you're then saying that it was somehow the victim's fault for simply being who they were and "allowing" themselves to get slaughtered by the enemy!
That's like blaming a rabbit for simply being a rabbit and being fair game for a poacher.
If you want to "blame" anybody, blame the bleedin' Church which marginalized the Jews of Europe for centuries by forbidding them from joining local professions (including the military) which would have integrated them into Christian society and allowed them during the plague years to die as well as live amongst their brethren.
Luther himself wanted the Jews driven out of town on a rail, if they could, since they refused to convert to Christianity.
Being quarantined in state-imposed ghettoes, they remained immune from the pestilence which wiped out the communities of their gentile neighbors, while allowing the Jews to retain their own belongings, making it seem to the average dirt-poor slob that the Jews stole what was Christian property, as the latter often had nothing when they returned from the ravages of war, and the Jews still had their house and their family.
Nobody "asked" to do the unpopular jobs of pawnbroker or money changer; this work was OFF LIMITS to gentiles.
It was simply a vicious circle and cannot be simplified by quick-fix prejudices!!
Johnny, you're then saying that it was somehow the victim's fault for simply being who they were and "allowing" themselves to get slaughtered by the enemy!
That's like blaming a rabbit for simply being a rabbit and being fair game for a poacher.
If you want to "blame" anybody, blame the bleedin' Church which marginalized the Jews of Europe for centuries by forbidding them from joining local professions (including the military) which would have integrated them into Christian society and allowed them during the plague years to die as well as live amongst their brethren.
Luther himself wanted the Jews driven out of town on a rail, if they could, since they refused to convert to Christianity.
Being quarantined in state-imposed ghettoes, they remained immune from the pestilence which wiped out the communities of their gentile neighbors, while allowing the Jews to retain their own belongings, making it seem to the average dirt-poor slob that the Jews stole what was Christian property, as the latter often had nothing when they returned from the ravages of war, and the Jews still had their house and their family.
Nobody "asked" to do the unpopular jobs of pawnbroker or money changer; this work was OFF LIMITS to gentiles.
It was simply a vicious circle and cannot be simplified by quick-fix prejudices!!
Lyzko
15 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
The lesson here remains that it's always better nevertheless to learn to communicate effectively in the target language of the country in which you are a resident, because
relying on the public relations impression of "fluent" English in the end is like a trompe l'oeil; it looks like a door, but when you get close to try to open it, you realize it's nothing more than a (frustrating) mirage:-)
lol
The lesson here remains that it's always better nevertheless to learn to communicate effectively in the target language of the country in which you are a resident, because
relying on the public relations impression of "fluent" English in the end is like a trompe l'oeil; it looks like a door, but when you get close to try to open it, you realize it's nothing more than a (frustrating) mirage:-)
lol
Lyzko
15 Feb 2019
Travel / Impressions from Szczecin [8]
It's not in the end whether those people you saw were non-white or not, rather how socially, above all linguistically, integrated they are within the society in which they are living and presumably working!
Look at downtown Toronto:-)
It's not in the end whether those people you saw were non-white or not, rather how socially, above all linguistically, integrated they are within the society in which they are living and presumably working!
Look at downtown Toronto:-)
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
A stalemate then? What do you think?
A stalemate then? What do you think?
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
No, Ziemowit gave a nicely cursory overview of what is expected in the Polish language. Rules aren't "stupid", merely those too stubborn to attempt to understand them!
No, Ziemowit gave a nicely cursory overview of what is expected in the Polish language. Rules aren't "stupid", merely those too stubborn to attempt to understand them!
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
The issue here concerns what happened during, rather than simply after the war! No, in this instance, Germany remains the one who bares the financial burden for reparations to those descendants of families living in occupied Poland, no dice.
The issue here concerns what happened during, rather than simply after the war! No, in this instance, Germany remains the one who bares the financial burden for reparations to those descendants of families living in occupied Poland, no dice.
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
Israelis do indeed become visibly, to an extent, rightfully irritated at American Jews in general, as during the Holocaust, the American Jewish (as opposed to the World Jewish) Congress essentially sat twiddling their thumbs while Hitler was busy making life a living hell for Europe's Jews!
Jews too supported Roosevelt, ever so sadly still reviled by many of us for having the S.S. Missouri turned back to Europe.. and to certain death.
Israelis do indeed become visibly, to an extent, rightfully irritated at American Jews in general, as during the Holocaust, the American Jewish (as opposed to the World Jewish) Congress essentially sat twiddling their thumbs while Hitler was busy making life a living hell for Europe's Jews!
Jews too supported Roosevelt, ever so sadly still reviled by many of us for having the S.S. Missouri turned back to Europe.. and to certain death.
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
In complete accord!
While Poland surely did no doubt retain considerable properties which belonged to numerous Jewish families before the Second World War, the lion's share of reparations should obviously fall to Germany, since after all those so-called "Polish" camps were actually located on "German-occupied" soil.
In complete accord!
While Poland surely did no doubt retain considerable properties which belonged to numerous Jewish families before the Second World War, the lion's share of reparations should obviously fall to Germany, since after all those so-called "Polish" camps were actually located on "German-occupied" soil.
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]
Members of Germany's AfD are insisting that Poland pay her "fair share" in Holocaust reparations.
If that's not a chuptzpah.....
Members of Germany's AfD are insisting that Poland pay her "fair share" in Holocaust reparations.
If that's not a chuptzpah.....
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
Sarcasm and obstinance won't help you learn a language! Ethnocentrism is the enemy of learning.
In every European language I know or with which I am passingly familiar (and that's quite a lot), German, Polish, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch etc., the word for "day" is ALWAYS masculine.
Language learning often requires a knowledge of both mythology as well as linguistics, and as an adult learner especially, merely combing through a textbook, listening to movies with Polish subtitles, will only help.....SLOOOOOWWWLLY!!!
:-)
Bingo, Ziemowit!
Sarcasm and obstinance won't help you learn a language! Ethnocentrism is the enemy of learning.
In every European language I know or with which I am passingly familiar (and that's quite a lot), German, Polish, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch etc., the word for "day" is ALWAYS masculine.
Language learning often requires a knowledge of both mythology as well as linguistics, and as an adult learner especially, merely combing through a textbook, listening to movies with Polish subtitles, will only help.....SLOOOOOWWWLLY!!!
:-)
Bingo, Ziemowit!
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
Same with ANY gender-driven/case imbued aka inflected language, Rich!
Don't let's confuse grammatical vs. natural or biological gender assignment, 'cuz for the former, there AIN'T no logic:-)
"Dzien" (day) though does tend to follow the general rule for most Indo-European tongues which assign the masculine gender
to the concept of "day" as opposed to "noc" (night) which is nearly always feminine. The day is normally associated with a masculine
god, whereas the "queen of the night" in legend, is never anything but a woman.
Go figureLOL
Same with ANY gender-driven/case imbued aka inflected language, Rich!
Don't let's confuse grammatical vs. natural or biological gender assignment, 'cuz for the former, there AIN'T no logic:-)
"Dzien" (day) though does tend to follow the general rule for most Indo-European tongues which assign the masculine gender
to the concept of "day" as opposed to "noc" (night) which is nearly always feminine. The day is normally associated with a masculine
god, whereas the "queen of the night" in legend, is never anything but a woman.
Go figureLOL
Lyzko
14 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
Surely distant relations, aquaintances, enemies etc.....
Seriously though, when I first started out learning Polish, even before any formal instruction, I would label objects in our apartment, "sciana" (wall), "lampa" (lamp).
"stol" (table), "krzeslo" (chair), "obrus" (table cloth), "drzwi" (door), even the "podloga" (floor).
This reinforced instantaneous cognitive recognition of basic, everyday objects like a charm!
:-)
Surely distant relations, aquaintances, enemies etc.....
Seriously though, when I first started out learning Polish, even before any formal instruction, I would label objects in our apartment, "sciana" (wall), "lampa" (lamp).
"stol" (table), "krzeslo" (chair), "obrus" (table cloth), "drzwi" (door), even the "podloga" (floor).
This reinforced instantaneous cognitive recognition of basic, everyday objects like a charm!
:-)
Lyzko
13 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
Contact with Poland need never be limited to physically being in the country itself nowadays!
Ever heard of Skype??
Contact with Poland need never be limited to physically being in the country itself nowadays!
Ever heard of Skype??
Lyzko
13 Feb 2019
Language / What do you like in Polish language? [70]
It's precisely those consonant clusters which give Polish, like Czech, her special beauty. German does tend to be more on the sibilant side, I agree with you completely:-) Polish struents are more numerous than in English, hence Polish as well as German gained the of course undeserved reputation of being somehow "harsh-sounding" languages, even though certain Romance languages such as Spanish often can sound like a machine gun, rat-a-tat-tat.
It's precisely those consonant clusters which give Polish, like Czech, her special beauty. German does tend to be more on the sibilant side, I agree with you completely:-) Polish struents are more numerous than in English, hence Polish as well as German gained the of course undeserved reputation of being somehow "harsh-sounding" languages, even though certain Romance languages such as Spanish often can sound like a machine gun, rat-a-tat-tat.
Lyzko
13 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
Wholeheartedly concure, Dougpol1! Main thing is hearing the native language 24/7, particularly at the very outset of your studies.
Powodzenia:-) Good luck!
Wholeheartedly concure, Dougpol1! Main thing is hearing the native language 24/7, particularly at the very outset of your studies.
Powodzenia:-) Good luck!
Lyzko
13 Feb 2019
Language / Advice needed for learning Polish Language [41]
As you start acquiring more vocabulary to add to the growing arsenal of grammar aka structure you're naturally learning, I must repeat that watching popular, contemporary movies IN Polish with Polish subtitles instead of English or whatever your mother tongue, will increase your listening comprehension, in the end,
basic fluency, by leaps and bounds:-)
As you start acquiring more vocabulary to add to the growing arsenal of grammar aka structure you're naturally learning, I must repeat that watching popular, contemporary movies IN Polish with Polish subtitles instead of English or whatever your mother tongue, will increase your listening comprehension, in the end,
basic fluency, by leaps and bounds:-)
Lyzko
12 Feb 2019
Study / What do Poles think of a foreign person who tries to learn Polish [47]
I do too. They sound so, well, foreign:-)
I do too. They sound so, well, foreign:-)
Lyzko
12 Feb 2019
Language / What do you like in Polish language? [70]
I hope you're not including German in your dismissal of "other" languages, Rich.
I hope you're not including German in your dismissal of "other" languages, Rich.
Lyzko
11 Feb 2019
Study / What do Poles think of a foreign person who tries to learn Polish [47]
New York, USA!!!...until I was in my late teens, that is.
New York, USA!!!...until I was in my late teens, that is.
Lyzko
10 Feb 2019
Language / What do you like in Polish language? [70]
One can dislike a regime, but not a language!
I love the Polish language, although I'm not Polish either by birth or descent.
One can dislike a regime, but not a language!
I love the Polish language, although I'm not Polish either by birth or descent.
Lyzko
10 Feb 2019
Study / What do Poles think of a foreign person who tries to learn Polish [47]
?? What sort of grammar is that, dolno? "Do you SPEAK American English?" Doubtless just a typoLOL
Yes, indeed I do...perfectly:-) German and English are essentially my native languages.
?? What sort of grammar is that, dolno? "Do you SPEAK American English?" Doubtless just a typoLOL
Yes, indeed I do...perfectly:-) German and English are essentially my native languages.