News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Like so many other Germans from his region, Nietzsche by his very name, was obviously part Slav:-)
He was though NOT pan-German at all. His works were corrupted by his sister Elisabeth Nietzsche-Foerster, later an ardent Nazi who met Hitler.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Indeed, the Swedish elections will tell quite a bit about what future the AfD will have in Germany! You're right about that.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Undoubtedly, the Swedish elections tomorrow will be neck-and-neck (Kopf am Kopf)!
Have to wait and see what happens, yet I have the gnawing feeling that the liberals in Sweden will already have eaten
their Henkersmahlzeit before the axe falls!

Language / Common errors in Polish grammar or spelling [26]

@Ziemowit,

Just sent you a private mail which I hope explains my confusion.
Apologies if there are any typos:-)

Language / iPhone / Android - Smartphone apps for learning Polish [12]

I take it your first language is English. If not, some learners prefer to learn a foreign language in their native tongue at the beginning, later switch to all target language material for practice, eschewing source or first language interference:-) Everyone's different. Me, I learned Polish first in German, eventually switching to Polish as the primary language of instruction after about year or so as I felt more confident.

There's another free app with which I'm cursorily familiar called "lingo learn". Ever heard of it?
tarsape@gmail.com

Language / Common errors in Polish grammar or spelling [26]

Milo, the Dutch certainly learn English with a vengeance, having unfortunately all but turned their backs on German over the last several decades(:-
Whether they necessarily sound wonderful speaking or communicating in English is, well, another story:-)

Back to the thread, as a foreigner, the most common (spelling) error which I tend to make, is often not listening intently enough when a Polish native

pronounces "sc" vs."szcz", e.g. "chrzasc" vs. "chrzaszcz". I realize that the former is correct, however until the last several years or so, I occasionally will

confuse sounds, unless of course the word being spoken is already familiar to me. If the word in question is unknown to me, then I'll probably misspell it, unless

I hear it pronounced distinctly several times!

When I watch Polish DVDs, I will typically take furious notes, if I can, so as I can catch the words in the dialogue, rather like a mini-dictation exercise.

Drives the missus nutsLOL

News / Do Poles take Kaczynski seriously!? [199]

Don't believe the BS Trump's been dishing out, Ironside! It's an insult to your intelligence (..and that ain't sayin' muchLOL).

Human beings are by their very nature irresponsible and are inherently incapable of so-called self-governing. By your logic, why have bosses as workers can boss themselves, or police, as citizens can police one another, finally, why have governments at all??!

Po polsku / Ile kosztuje lek na wirus zapalenia wątroby typu C - Leczenie w Indiach [3]

Niestety nie wiem. Definitywnie taniej niz w Polsce!
:-)

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Bingo!

Asylbewerber or asylum seekers technically could prove actual hardship. Apparently others on this forum don't appreciate the degree of immigrants, tossing them merrily into one big stew. The former are often confused for the same types as those back in the early '60's from Spain etc. who were brought into Germany to work at among other places Opel in Ruesselsheim.

Incidentally Tacitus, did you receive my private message several days back?

News / Do Poles take Kaczynski seriously!? [199]

Slavs no longer belong to some medaeval "Pan-Slav fiefdom" as you seem to imagine they still do!
Poles belong to the EU, period, end of story.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Rich, I'm not yanking anybody's chains! I'm merely explaining the way things are, unfortunately!
Sweden has been lulled into believing that the lure of cheap labor will bolster their economy.

Germany had a different justification for the arrival of Spaniards, Greeks, later Turks into the fledgling FRG after the '50's. The country
had lost so many young men during the war, they needed desperately to replace them, hence, they "imported" foreign labor.
The hope was, the latter would eventually return to their native countries. The reality turned out to be far, far different; the Turks especially
found that the second generation of German-born Turks could assimilate. They liked Germany, and so they stayed.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

...burger flipping, street cleaning, working the farms by clearing manure etc..

Even as far back as my first time in Gothenburg, Sweden, I NEVER had a "Swedish" waiter, busboy, or saw a native Swedish national food cart vendor (selling Swedish meatballs, no less!!!), few as they were in the '80's. Except for the ethnically Swedish-born, multilingual reception staff at my hotel, all non-managerial, ownership work was done by Third Worlders...a great number of whom didn't even really speak Swedish at that time.

News / Do Poles take Kaczynski seriously!? [199]

Problem is, that as with an individual state in the US, it doesn't merely exist in some kind of vacuum, but remains bound by the continent to which it belongs.

In Europe, it's the same thing. Poland may well wish to distance herself from the West and drift away from established constitutional practice, but she needs the EU as an overall safeguard against capricious threats to democracy!

Germany also rejected the rest of Western Europe, long before the outbreak of WWII, imagining herself "above the law" which governed the same continent which she shares with France, Italy etc.

All countries need to be reigned in when they cease being responsible member states, and, like naughty children in need of strict parenting, act out their prurient fantasies and impact the welfare of their neighbors.

"No man's an island,..... everyone's part of the continent, part of the main......" - John Donne

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

As long as the Germans, the Swedish, or the Dutch feel that they are too good for D.D.D (Dirty, Dangerous, Difficult) jobs, you will see more and more non-white Third Worlders "invading" Northern European economies.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Maf & Co.

Once upon a time, America defined herself as a country of W.A.S.P. citizenry, unable or unwilling to accept "others" into her fold, long, long before Emma Lazarus penned "The Colossus" with its moving, ideal words! Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in the 19th century too was clearly against allowing anyone but those of Northern European heritage to come to America and settle.

Well, some two-hundred and fifty years and counting, the US is a multi-national society, struggling, yet somehow succeeding, in attempting to achieve a lofty goal, supposedly making her different from Europe with her stodginess of traditional sameness, lovely to look at like a museum, yet somehow out of touch with the shifting realities of global change.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Yes, they do in fact, Maf, surprise!

Most important of all, they feel themselves as Swedes and justifiably feel discriminated by others, despite the fact that the former have thoroughly integrated into the society of their host country.

Sure, many undoubtedly eat Halal, observe Ramadan and refuse to drink in public alongside Swedish nationals, while others sing Swedish folk songs, hoist a few frosties with their mates after work, and gorge themselves on Jansson's Frastelse.......

point is, to what extent does Sweden, for that matter any homogeneous society, eventually accept as fellow citizens those whose outward appearance is markedly different from their own?

News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]

And so accepting the indifference makes you then nearly a willing participant in it's evil. Despite the fact that I couldn't stand much of the late '60's which I only experienced second-hand while growing up, the only positive thing which seemed to come out of the whole hallucinogenic mess, was to get off one's dump and speak out against wrong things happening.

Even posting about them here's better than just going along with the crowd, above all when the crowd in question happens to be dead wrong.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Again, why should probably innocent dark-skinned persons living in Chemnitz or wherever in Germany be somehow forced to pay for Merkel's missteps, however severe?

Many of the former might in fact even technically be German citizens (although not ethnic nationals).

Read an article about the significant advances of the far right in Sweden, particularly the section of Rinkelby in Stockholm and how numerous Somali-descended
youth having grown in Sweden and speak Swedish as their first primary language, complain that fellow "ethnic" Swedes still don't regard them as Swedish!!

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]

I know of scores of Holocaust survivors who made it big here in the States (along with quite a number who didn't, by the way) and sent nice sums of money to

the families of those gentile Poles, farmers mostly, who saved their asses during WWII.

In one such instance, the fisherman from a town near Lodz, who saved a now elderly survivor's life back in '44, continued to receive bi-annual checks from the

Holocaust survivor and his family, until the day he died in around '66.

So much for Jews not giving a hoot about Poland after the War. Those amounts might have seemed small, but they made all the difference to the families of those righteous Poles....TRUE CHRISTIAN HEROES!!

News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]

Bull!!!

The latter is always as relevant as the era in which it took place, since life lessons are timeless and NEVER go out of fashion.

Wait and see the next time YOU'RE homeless, unemployed or starving.

Sometimes you speak as though you're living in some sort of cocoon, removed from reality, indifferent to what's happening around you..

News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]

You think the Great Depression No. 1 is no longer relevant, Maf??!! Are you for real?
Santayana's statement has been quoted to death, but precisely because it's been quoted to pieces, makes its relevance that much more urgent!

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Criticizing needn't necessarily always be "bashing". in as far as it's done con- rather than destructively.
Germany, any country, surely merits criticism where deserved. On the other hand, when praise is well-deserved, then heaping accolades
is no more than right:-)

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Unhealthy it most surely is, Maf & Brat. Yet, we are all products of both our history and our environment! What d'you brain trusts suggest anyway? Return in a time warp and change history??!

It is what it is and what is done cannot be undone.....only unlearned.

News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]

Move on from where to where?

Dead model? In what way? Is not the instinct to right unequivocal wrongs in history intrinsically a positive thing, even if the execution is fatally flawed?

Her heart's in the right place, it's simply no longer pragmatic, that's all:-)

News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]

As I posted earlier in a different thread, Merkel is merely going typically overboard in that post-'68 German left-wing liberal way of allowing the pendulum to swing in the exact opposite direction from the NS-period, so paranoid are the Germans (thinking Germans, that is) of a return to the "bad" old days!

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]

As the Germans put it, "Unkraut vergeht nicht" aka "One can't get rid of crab grass" There's probably a corresponding idiom in Polish:-)

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Dirk, at risk of flogging a dead horse here, Merkel is trying to save her country from its baser instincts from the hindsight of Germany's (now not so recent) past. That she's overreacting as she has been by inviting almost a million or more mostly unwanted and unneeded Syrian migrants into the country is merely a typical example of a knee-jerk reaction to the Nazi period!

The war has been physically over for seventy-five years; its after effects might well be with us indefinitely.

News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]

It cuts both ways!

Merkel was wrong, yet why should the innocents suffer merely because of their fate of having the "wrong" skin color.

News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]

They're not lies, Maf!

I spoke to a German acquaintance yesterday by phone and she along with a majority of other clear-thinking Germans are terrified of AfD and PEGIDA.

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]

Ignore Ironside et al, Milo!!

The sickness and obsession are THEIR projections of themselves, nothing more:-)