News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Roger, Cameron was soundly defeated by his opposition, Farage along with Boris Johnson leading the trumpet section, and indeed the Brits, at least a majority of the ENGLISH, did to be sure vote for Brexit!!

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

The price tag becomes the key question here:-)

Language / Best book for a language noobie? Learning Polish. [22]

Right, roz! Furthermore, what Polish lacks in the plethora of verb tenses as in English, French, or Portuguese, she more than compensates for quite adequately in her myriad aspectual forms:-)

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

Couldn't agree with you more.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

@Ironside, "should" is relative:-) How much should the Germans pay in compensatory damages?? Almost inestimable, I'd think.

Language / What is the difference between jeść and jadać? [10]

Precisely what I showed. Apropos, maybe "Kaczma" is a misspelling. Probably is.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

And do you honestly think that the Germans rebuilt their economy without the Marshall Plan?

Language / What is the difference between jeść and jadać? [10]

Codziennie JEM kolacje w domu. vs. JADAM od czasu do czasu w restauracji "Kaczma".

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

@Dirk diggler, historically, you're quite right. Nonetheless, this surely doesn't justify Germany's eternal "debt" to Poland now, does it?

Frankly, I feel Poland's merely seeking publicity, that's all. Let's assume, for the sake of argument, Merkel's gov't. decides to pay out millions, even billions to Poland, for "humanity's sake". Why not trillions then? Once more, WHERE DOES IT BLOODY END???! Furthermore, does this mean Poland will ever be completely satisfied either?

Life / Boring Life after work in Poland (Bydgoszcz) [29]

Yet another (even wiser) proverb states that those who feel bored, are therefore boring!

Language / Inanimate vs animate nouns in Polish language [16]

Nothing, other than the same thing you were:-) Clear as glass.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

A rather vulgar rant! The issues as to why certain cities got "returned" to whom is much more involved than you and others here seem to imagine.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

Again, the whole claim that after all these years Germany somehow reconfigure the map of Europe while paying Poland through the nose is just ludicrous!

Germany HAS in fact been paying through the nose since nearly the end of the War. Such is totally unhealthy, stunting the natural social, economic, even cultural, development of an entirely new generation of Germans.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

The debate is likely never to go away, as both sides seem unwilling to compromise. Germany at long last wants to put her past behind her, while Poland seems to revving up for whole fresh fight.

Language / Inanimate vs animate nouns in Polish language [16]

Thanks for "clearing" things up a bit, DominicB. Many grammarians though disagree on this point as well:-)

Love / Are Polish Women cold and aloof? [249]

You're right, Sparks11. Guess they didn't want to talk to you either:-)

Love / Are Polish Women cold and aloof? [249]

Many Europeans may APPEAR "cold and aloof" to strangers, especially to foreign men of unknown quantity. Polish women are certainly no exception!

Language / Inanimate vs animate nouns in Polish language [16]

I understand perfectly well what grammatical gender means, also how it functions. My query concerned rather the issue of biological gender as reflected in animate vs. inanimate nouns, that's all, and whether or not these comprised more than three genders.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

...z krwi I kosci!! No question, Ziemowitku, big or small.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

The Livonian knights were hankering for territory in the East for centuries. Eisenstein brilliantly evokes their cruelty in "Alexander Nevsky", as in the famous scene highlighting the film maker's famous three-figure composition where Russian prisoners are tied to a stake, at the same time being tortured by the Germanic invaders while the camera slowly pans their faces as they struggle to free themselves.

Surely no coincidence that Eisenstein hated the Germans almost as much as he gladly propagandized for the Communists, being both a Russian as well as a half-Jew:-)

Life / Boring Life after work in Poland (Bydgoszcz) [29]

Vin, are you originally from the UK? Merely curious:-)

Language / Inanimate vs animate nouns in Polish language [16]

Interesting that you count animate vs. inanimate nouns as "separate" genders, not merely masculine, feminine, and neuter. I'd think, at least I was always taught (by TWO Polish-educated teachers no less), that animate/inanimate nouns were subsumed under the heading of which ever gender the noun in question is assigned.

I'm not challenging you, I'm merely questioning whether there's actually a fourth gender in Polish. Maybe in the end it's all semantics:-)

Life / Boring Life after work in Poland (Bydgoszcz) [29]

Vin, how does Bydgoszcz compare with where you're from in the UK? Perhaps you expect too much from another culture, for whom night life may mean something slightly different! Would help also if you understood fluent Polish:-)

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

@Dirk diggler, that's precisely about whom I'm speaking! As adamantly vocal as apparently many Poles these days are concerning Germany's reparations to their country, the Gottscheers are equally insistent that Slovenia, Poland, Czech Rep. and so forth "compensate" forcibly displaced ethnic German nationals with a sizable sum as well.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

Many ultra-conservative German nationalists, such as the Gottscheer folks from Sudetenland, argue the opposite! They believe that Poland owes THEM their territory which the Slavic "enemy" stole from THEIR lands.

Can't please everybody, so don't bother trying.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

This double standard is certainly not forgivable, yet at the same time, completely understandable, even if not either legally or morally justified.

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

Where oh where does it end, people?? Nearly every group out there feels slighted. Therefore, if you compensate every single organization, nation, prinicpality etc. who or which feels it "deserve" compensation, the whole world would go broke, literally!

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

My post is neither long, nor rambling. Unless you're referring to my colleague, not myself.

Language / Inanimate vs animate nouns in Polish language [16]

Yes, this is correct. I did omit the plurals, you're right.
Appreciate the addendum:-)

News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

Factually correct, Dirk diggler, although it was the Jews of Poland who suffered far more than the many of the more assimilated, better off, not to mention mobile urban Jews of Germany, most of whom were able to leave their country as early as '34, in certain cases! The latter were usually educated, many even English or French speaking, therefore in a position to emigrate. This is not to generalize, of course.

Furthermore, what purpose would it serve to bleed Germany's coffers dry by launching suit against the entire nation?