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From: New York, USA
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Lyzko   
14 Sep 2017
Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]

In South Korea for instance, parents of grade schoolers typically give small "gifts" in the form of cash presents on Teacher's Day in order to insure that their children pass to the next grade and graduate!
Lyzko   
14 Sep 2017
News / Two Polish Men on trial for brutally murdering German Pop Star in homophobic attack [53]

Lest we demonize instead of trying to understand said particulars as to the background of the two attackers in order to prevent such from happening again, were the situation reversed and two German men had murdered a Polish pop star or whomever, there'd be those who'd say aloud, "Oh, those German b******ds!"
Lyzko   
13 Sep 2017
News / Polish couple brutally attacked by the Danish police. [46]

Danish tolerance has indeed been tested to her limits over the past several years especially, and sadly, I can imagine that a tensed-up and strapped police force, even in Denmark will act without forethought and forget the lessons of their recent history.

The police in many countries, not the least of whom here in the US, are often a fairly primitive bunch, I've found, eager to exaggerate danger if merely in order to appear heroic, where in actuality, little if any heroics are needed:-) While they can be of tremendous aid in certain situations, usually, they are just the opposite.

The French refer to them in slang as "poulet" (chickens), and in Italy, the carabinieri have long since been the butt of national jokes!
Lyzko   
12 Sep 2017
Australia / Newborn girl -ska or -ski ? AUSTRALIA [12]

Some last names can be tricky in Polish, for example, the wife of Nowak would be "NowakOWA", however if Nowakowa were to be unmarried, it would be "NowakOWNA", with the final "o" having a hook on top, thereby giving it a short "u" sound, almost like the sound of "oo" in the English word "bOOk"!
Lyzko   
11 Sep 2017
Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]

It's thinking beings who are willing despite all odds to affirm their humanity rather than their animal origins who "cry over democracy", as you so cynically put it!!

Face facts; since the onset of the Reagan Era at the start of the '80's, neither the US nor the rest of our planet has been better off for peanuts. Reagan merely sealed the coffin in which America was buried, adding the final nail already begun with the end of suburbia, the putrid post-'60's drug culture (led by the wonderful "Dr." Leary -may we all be leary of such people), and not too much later, the EST (Erhard Seminar Training) fiasco precipitating the end of the New Deal Era, flaunting that marvellous slogan "I'm okay. If you're not, that's YOUR problem!" along with further toxic phases.

Trump's pushed the clock back 'till before the 1930's, when unemployment didn't exist, people got rich quick or starved on their own time, and abortion was THE dirty word.

Shame on America for voting for Trump. Well, maybe the awful stuff weatherwise affecting millions in those red states down south who voted him into office is some sort of divine comeupance for their heedless arrogance, terrible thought as it is to utter. Perhaps Irma will humble those who stood so proudly in the wrong direction and from this, some wil finally gain wisdom.

I believe Poles have been sold a phony bill of goods concerning Mr. Trump and sooner rather than later, will realize the error of their ways:-)
Lyzko   
10 Sep 2017
Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]

Why? Why oughtn't Poles rightfully criticize the US? Is that not freedom of expression??
:-)
Lyzko   
9 Sep 2017
Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]

@Joker, the average Joe The Plumber-type from Oshkosh or Booneyville, USA doesn't care much about what ANYBODY says or thinks, 'cept for those who agree with 'em!:-)
Lyzko   
9 Sep 2017
Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]

If you check out his profile, I think you'll see that he resides in Frankfurt and is probably a German national:-) There is a vocal minority of Trump supporters in Merkelland, few and far between though they may beLOL
Lyzko   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Polish Attitudes toward America [36]

@Nothanks, Poland may well be the most pro-Trump nation in Europe today. Pro-American, I'm not so sure:-) Remember too that not all the news is reported accurately by the conservative media!

At least until the past twenty years or so, Albania was thought to be the most sympathetic country to the US, freely admitted to by the Albanians themselves following the demise of the Hoxa regime.
Lyzko   
7 Sep 2017
Study / Any (inexpensive) English Schools in Krakow? [60]

Nurture over nature, you're saying. Is that it? Gene pool be damned, douse the youngster in Mozart or Bach, and TA-DA, out comes a future genius??

Have to muddle over that one, Roger.
Lyzko   
7 Sep 2017
Work / Diary of a Teacher in Poland [181]

Just an addendum.

Although having never taught in Poland, I've found that in certain countries, Albania for instance (I'm sure there must be others, Russia, perhaps), apparently what we in the States consider plagiarizing, students from the countries I just mentioned, consider merely the cost of doing whatever necessary to curry favor with their professor in order to receive a good grade, nothing more, nothing less:-)

A young exchange student from the University of Tirana looked at me dagger-eyed and red in the face when a report she submitted (literally taken page by page off of the Internet) I summarily had to fail! Cluelessly, yet visibly angry, she protested the grade, insisting, one, that there IS no difference in English between someone's first name vs. their family name, furthermore, that the whole object of my class was to turn in a paper in acceptable English, which is what she did...using somebody else's words, I told hereLOL

Didn't seem to make an impression on this person that the whole object of learning is NOT to cheat. She didn't feel that it was cheating, and I've encountered this attitude from any number of bright-looking, intelligent students from Eastern Europe.
Lyzko   
7 Sep 2017
Study / Any (inexpensive) English Schools in Krakow? [60]

"..pricey status symbols.." Not to mention mere props for their folks to show off so their neighbors and friends can sit there stewing, while the other parents can sit there kvelling!

I'd be a poor parent if I didn't agree with that statement, maf:-)
Lyzko   
7 Sep 2017
Life / What has Poland accomplished in the science and technology field? [22]

Some books also incorrectly identify Marie Curie as French, although you and I know she was a Pole who married Pierre Curie, a Frenchman. The Germans claim Kopernikus aka Copernicus aka Kopernigk for their own, while Torun/Thorn was part of Polish-speaking Poland then....as now:-)

Sorry, gumishu. Won't hold water. The Russians are notorious as crooks and thieves world wide. And then you as a Pole want them to steal yet another piece of your history, a great mathematician??!

How the mighty have fallen.
Lyzko   
6 Sep 2017
Study / Any (inexpensive) English Schools in Krakow? [60]

I've no doubts, jon. However, as in certain other European countries, many Poles, even younger ones (typically former ESL students!) have confessed to me that private, US-style "posh"-type business schools vs. traditional state-run universities such as Poznan, Warsaw etc. are typically looked on with some degree of suspicion. Not so to a certain extent?
Lyzko   
6 Sep 2017
Study / Any (inexpensive) English Schools in Krakow? [60]

"There's no Eton in Poland."

Hardly a surprise there, Dominic! There's no longer any historical "class system" in Poland either, the Commies saw to that:-) Nobility. shmobilityLOL
Can't ever imagine a Polish mom in a nice suburb of Warsaw bragging to her neighbor, "Well, Edyta! My Olek goes to Poznan. How about your boy, dear?"

Sociologically an impossible scenario.

Polish educational snobbery I've observed to be one of one-upmanship based solely on knowledge; you either know it, or you don't and all the money in the world ain't gonna make you any smarter.
Lyzko   
6 Sep 2017
Life / What has Poland accomplished in the science and technology field? [22]

Long enough, cms! Besides, it's not the length of contributors as much as the breadth of their contributions, and all things considered, the Poles have a long history of said accomplishments...need I have forgotten to mention the great Mikolaj Kopernikus himself, without whom Kepler, Leibniz and a host of others never would have been possible??
Lyzko   
6 Sep 2017
News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]

Precisely my point here, kaprys! As in the Wagner analogy, it is factually incorrect, a titilating theory used merely to bolster the odd high in thinking that the biggest Jew haters might themselves actually have been self-hating Jews.

A pity to destroy this cherished illusion, yet that's what respectable historians do.
Lyzko   
6 Sep 2017
Life / What has Poland accomplished in the science and technology field? [22]

What has Poland accomplished in the fields of science and technology??!

1) Mikolaj Aleksandr Lobaczewski - mathematics
2)Mme. Marie Curie (nee Manya Sklodowska) - biology, radiology (Nobel Laureate and the first woman to make it!!)
3) Kazimir Funk - pioneer in vitamins
4) Stanislaw Lem - mathematics

Need I continue?
:-)
Lyzko   
5 Sep 2017
News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]

Any scarcely literate being knows that Hitler (like the much maligned Wagner) WAS NOT, NOR EVER WAS, A JEW!!!!!

Hitler's poor mother, while still a teen, as servant in the home of the wealthy Braunauer Jewish family Frankenberger, did in fact, have relations with the elder Frankenberger, yet NO OFFSPRING RESULTED, certainly not the future Fuehrer.

As with Wagner, just for sensationalism's sake, there was a nasty rumor floating about that young Richard was iin fact his (step-)father's (the Jewish actor Ludwig Geyer's) biological son. FALSE! His biological dad was still the policeman Gustav Wagner, a gentile through and through:-)

Such things as the above are merely titilating pieces of nonsense used to tease the less educated masses into getting a kick out of how weird it would be if the worst anti-Semites in modern European history actually were Jews themselvesLOL

One Otto Weininger (sadly, a full Jew, and not a Mischling either) was more than enough, thank you!