Language / Tusk's uvular 'r' when speaking in Polish [49]


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Language / Tusk's uvular 'r' when speaking in Polish [49]

a false track

That's the official version of Tusk's unsavoury first name:

Julianna Tusk (babcia) wyjechała w młodości za granicę i ponoć zachwyciła się pewnym brytyjskim lordem o imieniu Donald. Dlatego tak dała na imię swemu synowi, który z kolei przekazał je własnemu dziecku.

So we are once again on the aristocratic track.

Language / Tusk's uvular 'r' when speaking in Polish [49]


To roll one's "r's" as the French do was once considered an aristocratic preserve, so-called grasejowanie. Watch the video making fun of this pronunciation, particularly Ludwik Sempoliński's (starozakonny książe) part faking that mania: żądam satysfacji z bRonią w Ręku...

Watch from 7:00 time stamp:

UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just go home please?

Because as Walter Benjamin wrote at the beginning of the fascist era:

Nur um der Hoffnungslosen willen ist uns die Hoffnung gegeben.
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

So if you deport a bunch of Romanians who were not working and then a bunch of Poles then you will find themselves at the beginning of the fascist era. So keep the Poles as your most precious treasure - a gift from Poland.

History / FDR and Americas communist insurgency affecting Poland [35]


You mean Immigration Act of 1924 and immigration restrictions postulated by the United States Immigration Commission also called the Dillingham Commission.

You mean not FDR but Theodor Roosevelt and he rather stayed cool and rational in all this madness. "He advised against discriminating on the basis of national-origin or religious beliefs, instructing both Houses to judge immigrants on the "individual quality of the individual man."

A quote:

The directory expounded undesirable qualities of southern and eastern Europeans. Slavs possessed a fanaticism "in religion, carelessness as to the business virtues of punctuality and often honesty, [and were prone to] periods of besotted drunkenness [and] unexpected cruelty." The classification of Jews emphasized facial characteristics to denote race, a propensity to live in cities, non-Aryan ancestry, and, incorporating the Shylock stereotype, "millions in wealth."

Language / How would you say "I like ____" [8]


Lubię....

The Polish language is so-called pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping"); i.e. personal pronouns are omitted in normal unmarked use - in this case I can infer the pronoun from the first person ending "-ę". If I'd say "Ja lubię" than what I really say is "I do (really) like it".

Life / era chamstwa - era of boorishness? [5]

Diary: 1957-1961 - page 118

The idol of the people is utility, and the idol of the aristocracy is pleasure. To be useful and unpleasant- is the goal of every robot and specialist. To be so useful as to be able to be unpleasant- is their dream. The dream of aristocrats is the diametrical opposite: to be so pleasant as to be able to be useless. As for me, I claim and record this as one of the canons of my knowledge of human nature: he who wants to please people has easier access to humanity than he who merely wishes to be a useful servant.

UK, Ireland / Polish in Uk are some of the hardest working and nice people [37]


How being called an Easter European can be an insult?

UK, Ireland / Are british getting ready to expell "Eastern Europeans" ? [16]


It is outdated, 18th century concept:

The term "Caucasian race" was coined by the German philosopher Christoph Meiners in his The Outline of History of Mankind (1785). In Meiners' unique racial classification, there were only two racial divisions (Racen): Caucasians ("white and beautiful") and Mongolians ("brown and ugly"). These terms were used as a collective representative of what Meiners personally regarded as good looking and far less attractive, based solely on the appearance of the skin of the face, for example the Germans and the Tartars he considered Caucasian, and the best looking, while Jews, Slavs and Native Americans as Mongolian, and ugly in the face.

If you want to know something about the ethnogenis of Slaves just read what Walter Pohl, ethongenesist himself, is writing on the subject:

Traditional Germanic societies had virtually split up into an active, aggressive part that stimulated - and fulfilled - the Roman demand for military manpower on the one hand; and those staying behind as deprived peasants, unable to cling to the ancient rural traditions that gave their existence a name and a meaning. This gap was filled by the Slavs. They re-established the old bipolarity between a more or less self-sufficient "barbarian" periphery and the Roman world.

kroraina.com/bulgar/pohl_etnicity.html

News / British senior politician compares Poland to South Africa during apartheid [129]


Not true. Only part of Poland is like that, that which is full of infiriority complex, which seems to me the real question to be addressed and nobody has done it yet.

News / British senior politician compares Poland to South Africa during apartheid [129]


You are preaching to the pope. Tell me how could I more agree with you.

News / British senior politician compares Poland to South Africa during apartheid [129]


He is right!

Racism in Victorian Britain - Professor Richard J Evans, Gresham College history lecture
youtube.com/watch?v=i81r_Wj-90s

News / British senior politician compares Poland to South Africa during apartheid [129]


You may be right. Let's make a deal now, you will be saying your mea culpa, the Poles theirs. OK?

News / Don't go to Poland ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin [313]


Donald Tusk, our PM, a soccer player himself should sacrifice his hobby for the better side of life - reading books, singing songs, not all patriotic ones and the like; some day there will be people ruling Poland more of that kind I hope.

BTW, that soccer disease came from England. Am I right?

News / Should Poles care who becomes French President or is it irrelevant? [45]


Yes, sure. Here goes the summary:

Mr Hollande is as cynical as his 'socialist' predecessor. And the gist of what has been written above about Mr Mitterrand can be shorten to what he said about himself: born a conservative and would die one, but managed to become a Socialist in the meantime. What Mr Hollande is saying that he is going to do after the election is not only irrelevant to Poland but to France as well.

Sorry, but to get to know something about history even my long post is much too short.

News / Should Poles care who becomes French President or is it irrelevant? [45]

It is good to know the past when thinking about the future, n'est-ce pas?

François Mitterrand, like Margaret Thatcher, was an implausible candidate for the role he was to play in his country's affairs. Born to a practicing Catholic family in conservative south-western France, he was a right-wing law student in the 1930s and an activist in some of the most extreme anti-democratic movements of the age. He spent most of World War Two as a junior servant of the collaborationist government in Vichy, switching his allegiance just in time to be able to claim post-war credentials as a resister. It was only after the implosion of the old Parti Socialiste in 1969, following its electoral humiliation in 1968, that Mitterrand began to plot his role in its renais-

sance: a take-over bid launched in 1971 with the appearance of a new Socialist Party led by Mitterrand and a new generation of ambitious young men recruited to serve him. He once described his religious allegiances thus: 'Je suis né chrétien, et je mourrai sans

doute en cet état. Dans l'intervalle . . . ' ('I was born Christian and shall doubtless die in that condition. But meanwhile . . . '). In much the same cynical vein he might have added that he was born a conservative and would die one, but managed to become a Socialist in the meantime.

Po polsku / Czy znacie jakieś "kultowe" Polskie filmy na Youtube? [21]

Świadectwo urodzenia.

Po polsku / Młodzi polscy prozaicy - kogo polecacie? [66]

Bohdan Korzeniewski

Książki i ludzie

Książki i ludzie to wspomnienia z drugiej wojny światowej, opis pobytu autora, profesora teatrologii Bohdana Korzeniewskiego, w obozie w Oświęcimiu i historia ocalenia zbiorów Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego przed zniszczeniem. Oprócz poniższego fragmentu w książce można znaleźć genialne wręcz opisy najróżniejszych typów ludzkich, między innymi komendanta obozu oświęcimskiego Hoessa i jego rodziny, oficerów niemieckich i sowieckich różnych służb, pierwszych funkcjonariuszy władzy ludowej i wielu innych. Oto fragment:

[i]- Czy któryś z was - zapytał poprawną niemczyzną z twardym akcentem berlińskim - włada językiem niemieckim dość biegle, aby przetłumaczyć bez zmian to, co wam powiem?

Jeden w tłumie podniósł rękę.

- Chodź tutaj i stań obok mnie - rozkazał. Cytowac mozna do 100 slow.

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]


Or pistolet wz. 35 Vis. Initially, that is in 1930 at the Fabryka Broni £ucznik (Arms Factory in Radom), it was named WiS (an acronym of the Polish designers' names Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński); later the name was changed to Vis, meaning force in Latin, with the wz. abbreviation for wzór, that is model.

Vel - originally Latin not German.

Via - from L. via "by way of," ablative form of via "way, road, channel, course,"

UK, Ireland / Polish Family stabbed to death in St Helier. [40]


The same Polish family.

UK, Ireland / Is moving to UK now a good idea? - antipolish prejudice of the Brits [231]

Isn't it better to sit in Poland an just listen to the best of the good old Britain not worrying about how would the people there treat you if you happen to go there?

UK, Ireland / Is moving to UK now a good idea? - antipolish prejudice of the Brits [231]

That is why I have compared Glasgow to Warsaw.

UK, Ireland / Is moving to UK now a good idea? - antipolish prejudice of the Brits [231]


If he ever be willing to to join the common people, even if it be in his afterlife, then he may put an inscription on his grave of the kind Thomas Gray put on his:

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]


What makes you such an expert?

Po polsku / Czy znacie jakieś "kultowe" Polskie filmy na Youtube? [21]

Wojciech Jerzy Has - Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie

Language / Co wy z tym żurkiem? / Terez dręczy mnie cały czas - Please correct my Polish. [12]

Języka uczę się stopniowo i powoli. Mam nadzieję, że zobaczymy się w przyszłym roku w Polsce i tutaj w Indiach na weselu. Cieszą mnie małe rzeczy: lubię żurek, kocham piosenki Sylwii Grzeszczak - ma bardzo ładne teksty - kocham psy, nie lubię kotów; i jeszcze jedna mała rzecz - kupiłem telefon komórkowy. No a na koniec - nie zapomnij o swoim żartownisiu.

News / Conservative-liberalism (Laissez-faire liberalism), another utopia for Poland? [99]

Could it be that the invisible hand of the market really be the Chinese Politburo:

...It seemed that the system could manage itself without direct political control... but it was an illusion. The reason for the extraordinary boom was the very opposite. It happened because of a giant exercise of political power by an elite thousands of miles away on the other side of the world.

The Asian countries, led by China, had decided that never again would they put themselves at the mercy of America and its financial elites.

So the Chinese Politburo created a system to manage America. They deliberately held their currency's exchange rate at a low level. This meant their exports were cheap, and Chinese goods flooded into America. And to pay for them, American dollars flooded into China.


"There can be no freedom without Solidarity" (Nie ma Wolności bez Solidarności)

The slogan formed in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in 1980.

"There can be no freedom without responsibility." (Nie ma Wolności bez Odpowiedzialności)

The slogan of the then Communist government, emblazoned on a banner stretched across the Central Committee building echoes with Hayek's "Liberty and responsibility are inseparable"

Po polsku / Polska jest dyktaturą? [129]


Możliwe. Nowo-mowa (newspeak) to termin ukuty przez Orwella i charakteryzuje państwo totalitarne. Oprócz kontroli języka państwo totalitarne charakteryzuje również kontrola historii: Kto kontroluje przeszłość, kontroluje przyszłość. Kto kontroluje teraźniejszość, kontroluje przeszłość - też Orwell. Czy ten kto żyje jak Jonasz wewnątrz ryby, może wiedzieć jak wygląda prawdziwy świat - świat nietotalitarny?

Oto lista naszych zawodowych historyków:

1) Prezydent
2) Premier
3) Marszałek Sejmu
4) Marszałek Senatu

Banda czworga?

Po polsku / Polska jest dyktaturą? [129]


No właśnie. Jeśli ojciec biznesmen doktor dyrektor Rydzyk używa tego słowa to znaczy tylko tyle, że kogoś strasznie za coś nie lubi.

UK, Ireland / Polish burglars 'tied up pensioner and stripped her of jewellery before leaving her to die [28]


Do not be so harsh to... you yourself. Deep inside have for them warm and mellow feelings of peace. Do not think of penalty, think of mercy - mercy killing.