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Polonius3   
29 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]

Sorry about that! I sometimes mistakenly assume that PF-ers have at least a working knowledge of Polish. Anyway, here's the gist of the message for our monoglots:

Polonian activists affiliated with POSK (Polish Socio-Cultural Centre in London) have met to discuss anti-Polish discrimination in the UK. The meeting was organised by Jan Niechwiadowicz who has actively fought for the past 5 years to eliminate anti-Polish stereotypes, historical misrepresentation (eg ‘Polish concentration camps’) and anti-Polish discrimination in the British media.

Anti-Polish slogans have been scrawled on walls and can be found in the press and online, including: ‘Save UK Jobs for UK People’ and ‘Save full-time British jobs and give the Polish agency work".

Mr Niechwiadowicz is appealing to Polonians not to remain indifferent towards such intolerance and discrimination and to join the Polish Media Issues Group, a group combating anti-Polonism through protests, petitions, letters to the editor and the like: pmi@supportpoland.org
Polonius3   
29 Jun 2010
Life / Outgrowing Socialism in Poland: how long will it now take? [8]

Churchill said, “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain”.

I presume Churchill was speaking of economic liberalism. In America the word liberal means social democrat or even socialist: extensive spending on inflated welfare programmes for unwed mothers, slum-dwellers, illegals and other down-and-outers, support for social experimentation, anti-globalists, legalising 'soft' drugs, euthanasia, abortion on demand, test-tube babies, homosexual marriage and socialised medicine on the one hand and forceful opposition to guns, capital punishment, the military and industrialists (except the entertainment industry), etc., etc. on the other.
Polonius3   
29 Jun 2010
Food / Polish egg dishes? [8]

Italians have their fritata, the Québecois -- their pickled eggs and the French -- their quiche... Do you know of any typically Polish egg dishes?
Polonius3   
29 Jun 2010
Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

I can usually distinguish a Kraków accent (czy instead of trzy, jagże instead of jakże), Góral, Ślunsk (weź ta ryńka) and śledzikowanie (is that's what it's called) in Podlasie, as well as Lwów (hard '£' and zaśpiew), but could anyone fill in the missing pieces? For instance, what does Polish with a Wielkopolska accent sound like, or Lublin (they are said to have a very soft 'L'), Kashubia, Masovia, etc.

Perhaps some of our PF linguists could find a good sentence to present in the various dialects to accentuate the difference. I am mostly interested not in regional vocabulary such as (pyrki for potato in Wielkopolska or bana for train in Śląsk), but in their pronunciaton of standard Polish.
Polonius3   
29 Jun 2010
Language / to go s/where [13]

Just so things aren't all that straightforward, there is also the frequentative version of the imperfective verb chodzić -- chadzać.
Polonius3   
29 Jun 2010
Language / będzie potrafił? [34]

Isn't this a case of evolving aspect - from purely perfective to perfectvie or imperfective depending on context. I'm sure this is a fairly recent development of maybe the past two or three decades. If so, anyone know exactly when it started appearing?
Polonius3   
29 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Pol-AM eateries/delis in California [17]

Partial listing of California’s Polish-American eateries and delis as well as non-Polish ones that serve or stock Polish items as of 2007. The catering business is very fluid so some may no longer exist, whilst new ones not listed here may have been established in the meantime. Updates and corrections appreciated.

** Alpine Village Market 833 W.Torrance Blvd (at 110 Fwy), Torrance, CA 310-327-2483 Deli
** Belvedere Restaurant Peninsula Hotel, 9882 Little Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 310-551-2888 Restaurant
** Chopin Café 1574 Palos Verdes Mall, Walnut Creek, CA 925-945-0580 Restaurant
** Cottage Café & Garden Grill 2321 Fifth Avenue (at Juniper Street), Bankers Hill, San Diego, CA 619-696-0071 Restaurant
** Eugene's Polish Restaurant 420 San Antonio Rd, Los Altos, CA 650-941-1222 Restaurant
** European Food Wholesale 3038 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 415-750-0504 Deli
** Golden Duck Restaurant 20951 Devonshire, Chatsworth, CA 818-341-2791 Restaurant
** J&T European Gourmet Deli 1128 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 310-394-7227 Deli
** Mr Smoke BBQ & Polish Restaurant 2610 W. La Palma Ave, Anaheim, CA 714-827-9074 Restaurant
** Old Kraków 385 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, CA 415-564-4848 Restaurant
** Polish & European Delikateski 1984 Monument Blvd, Concord, CA 925-825-7417 Deli
** Polka 4112 Verdugo Rd, Los Angeles, CA 323-255-7887 Restaurant
** Polka Deli 1710 Tustin Ave, Orange, CA 714-974-8276 Deli
** Russian Renaissance Restaurant 5241 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA 415-752-8558 Restaurant
** Sausage Factory 1783 S. Winchester Blvd, Campbell, CA 408-378-0991 Deli
** Warszawa 1414 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 310-393-8831 Restaurant
Polonius3   
29 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Polish-American groups in Southern California [26]

I ran across this lisitng of Polish groups in southern California. Perhaps it'll be of interest to some PF-ers: poles.org/DB/Pol_Orgs/Pol_Orgs.html
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Family name: Mucha [19]

There is also Joanna Mucha, the good-looking star MP of the ruling Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska).

BTW, isnt Mücke the German word for gnat? The English flea and German Floh share the same root.
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Family Name UNIATYCKI from Lwow [11]

Had I known about Uniatycze I would have said Uniatycki had originated as a typical toponymic nickname. Thanks for your vakluable insight.
Polonius3   
27 Jun 2010
Language / będzie potrafił? [34]

The combination of the perfective verb potrafić with the auxiliary verb będzie is becoming increasingly common. Does it offend you or have you accepted it as normal? Perfectvie verbs do not pair up with the będzie-type formation.

Doesn't 'On potrafi' alone already mean 'he will manage, be able...' without the addition of a superfluous będzie.
Polonius3   
26 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Family name: Mucha [19]

I beleive the original souruce is the Latin musca, in French it is mouche.
Polonius3   
26 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Family name: Mucha [19]

Mucha means fly in most if not all Slavonic languages.
Polonius3   
26 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Polonian or Polish food in America better? [26]

Polish-style foods are produced in America (sausage and smoked and cold meats, bread, pickled cucumbers, horseradish, pierogi, horseradish, mustard, etc.) as well as imported from Poland. Which do you prefer in terms of taste, appearance, tradition, naturalness, price, etc.?
Polonius3   
26 Jun 2010
Life / Brajek czy Brajanek? (baby names) [5]

Parents who think they are cool and trendy sometimes give their kids foreign celebrity names without thinking about what the child may face in future. Fad names come and go, but there are people in Poland stuck with Violetta, Leoncio, Isuara, Madonna, Jennifer, Bruce and suchlike.
Polonius3   
26 Jun 2010
News / US shouldn't interfere in Polish election (Polish-American Advocacy Initiative) [60]

Polish-American Advocacy Initiative: U.S. Officials Must Not Interfere in Polish Elections

WASHINGTON, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The planned visit to Poland by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other U.S. officials immediately before the final round of Poland's Presidential elections can only be seen as a blatant attempt to influence the outcome of this election. This visit must be postponed until after the new Polish president is elected.

prnewswire.
Polonius3   
25 Jun 2010
News / Lech Walesa gives warning over 'dangerous' Polish candidate [60]

Of course not all the files were accurate. There were deliberately planted fałszywki amongst them. That would have caused a lot of ruckus and confusion for 2-3 years until the matter got cleared up, but then it would have been over. By sweeping things under the rug, theSB files issue will keep resurfacing again and again for years to come.
Polonius3   
25 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / polish people in usa that wanted germany to win [34]

Anyone ever see an American film about Germany winning the war and an ageing Hitler meeting JFK. Forgot the title as it was quite a few years back.
Polonius3   
25 Jun 2010
Language / Difference between Polska & Polsce? [26]

You think Polish is bad, try Finnish or Hungarian, Irish or Basque. Actually each language has its complexities and pitfalls and require study to do them justice. Sure you can say 'me go, me want, me like' or their equivalents in other langauges and make yourself understood, but that is slaughtering the tongue. The Spanish verbal system is quite complex, Italian has several articles for nouns of the same gender, Russian's unpredictable stress causes trouble for foreign learners not the mention German's der die das. And learnign to write Chinese? Forget it!
Polonius3   
24 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Family name: Mucha [19]

MUCHA: This is one of many insect-dervied nicknames typical of the Polish peasantry. Besides mucha (fly), others inlcude Świerszcz (cricket), Komar (mosquito), Żuk (beetle), Glista (worm) and Pająk (spider - although techncially a spider is not an insect).

CHA£UBIŃSKI: spelling variant of Hołubiński; root-word hołub/holub (Ukrainian/Czech for piegon = gołąb).
Polonius3   
24 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Poles in America: How far do you travel for Polish food? [6]

This is addressed to N. Americans.... Many people from across Michigan as well as NY, state, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New England and elsewhere do not live in or near an old Polonian neighborhood or within close distance to a Polish deli, supermarket, bakery, butcher's,etc. Some make a twice annual 'pilgrimage' (usually Xmas & Easter), others once a month or even once a week to a source of Polish meats and baked goods. Some drive 50-100 miles to get there. Anyone on PF do this?
Polonius3   
23 Jun 2010
Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

Thread attached on merging:
How pricey is dubbing itno Polish?

The widespread use of Polish voice-overs when foreign films are screened on Polish TV and the use of subtitles in the cinema suggest that dubbign is a costly operation. Anyone know hwomuch more it costs than vocie-oiver or ubtitles?

Some of the Polish TV adverts (for soap powders, washing-up liquids, etc.) I have seen are poorly dubbed becasue the lip movements do not reflect the Polish text. I understand all dubbing is not the same. Good (and presumably more expensive) dubbing selects words of the length and mouth movement similar to the original, creating the illusion of normal speech.
Polonius3   
23 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Pierogi Palace of Pennsylvania? [7]

I understand the Pierogi Palace's pierogi are nearly twice the size of most competitors, so that would make them comparatively less pricey than the menu might suggest.
Polonius3   
23 Jun 2010
Language / Difference between Polska & Polsce? [26]

Dear Polskiej Dumy (wrong case -- should be Polska Duma),
Why do Brits and Yanks say things 'I went to the beach yesterday' or 'Last Friday was my mum's birthday' or 'I will check it out. Arabs and other non-native speakers say 'I go to beach yesterday' and 'Last Friday mum's birthday' adn I check it out.' And they get along very nicely and everybody understands what they're saying and it's far less wordy. So why all the Anglo nonsense such as "they will have arrived" or "he has been saying with his inlaws" or "Bill had only just opened the door, when...' or 'We haven't got any'....etc.? Who needs it? Well, the Anglos think they do, and French and Poles and Vietnamese also think their languages cannot function properly without certain national-specific attributes. End of sermon!
Polonius3   
22 Jun 2010
News / Lech Walesa gives warning over 'dangerous' Polish candidate [60]

The Kaczyńskis were Wałęsa's king-makers. They orchestrated his presidential bid, ran his campaign and served him after he was elected. The split came in 1992 when the Olszewski government opened commie secret police files showing that Wałęsa and other top pro-Solidarity politicians had played ball with the SB. The Kaczyńskis favoured clearing up the collaboration issue like other former captive nations had done, but Wałęsa preferred to sweep everything under the rug. He actually brought down the Olszewski government by engineering a backroom parliamentary coup. Tusk, Kwaśniewski, Pawlak, Moczulski and other were his co-conspirators. Ever since then, Wałęsa has been feuding with the Kaczyńskis and anyone else who dared raise the Bolek issue. The fact is that over the years on more than one occaston he admitted to having signed some SB papers but deneid working for them. He probably was never a conscious SB infioremr but with a big family to supprot may have pledged cooperation in echange for some privileges or jszut to get them off his back. I seem to recall him once hinting that he did it to outfox them.
Polonius3   
22 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]

US Polonian assistance was not limited to the PRL era. It went back to before during and after WWI, during the between-the-wars period and during and after WW2. In the 1990s Polonia launched the biggest ever petition drive to back Poland's bid for NATO membership. And most recently there were fund-raising drives across Polonia to aid flood victims.
Polonius3   
21 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]

Polonian voters in the US overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Jarosław Kaczyński (70%) as against 25% for Bronisław Komorowski. Napieralski got less than 3%. Canadian Polonians produced similar results. Our Polonia appears to be more patriotic, tradition-bound and staunchly anti-Communist than voters in Poland itself.
Polonius3   
17 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Pierogi Palace of Pennsylvania? [7]

Anyone ever heard of or sampled the wares of Pennsylvania's Pierogi Palace? They are rumoured to be the best around but haven't tried them myself. I understand its strictly an e-order place -- no sit-down or ready-to-eat take-away
Polonius3   
17 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Garus last name - from Poland or Russia? [28]

GARUS: in Polish this mainly means a stewed-fruit soup; etymology from gar (large pot in which the soup simered); a secondary meaning of garus is couch potato, a laybout who enjoys dozing next to a warm stove. More than 2,000 people in Poland are named Garus, and their ancestral stronghold appears to be Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk or Oberschlesien).