Lyzko
1 Aug 2017
Lyzko
1 Aug 2017
Language / How long to to learn Polish? In hours? [64]
Yes, exactly! Poles in Chicago are like Italians, Irish and Hispanics in New York. We had Jimmy Breslin and the like, Chicago had Art Royko.
Poles also controlled the meat packing industry, about which the movie "Calling Northside 777" (1947) was made:-)
Yes, exactly! Poles in Chicago are like Italians, Irish and Hispanics in New York. We had Jimmy Breslin and the like, Chicago had Art Royko.
Poles also controlled the meat packing industry, about which the movie "Calling Northside 777" (1947) was made:-)
Lyzko
1 Aug 2017
History / UK betrayal of Poland during and after WWII [12]
I agree in this case! The reasons for Poland being "handed over to the Soviets" are complicated and cannot be resolved with pat answers.
I agree in this case! The reasons for Poland being "handed over to the Soviets" are complicated and cannot be resolved with pat answers.
Lyzko
31 Jul 2017
History / Adam Mickiewicz. What is his motherland: Poland or Lithuania? [93]
When he writes "Litwo, ojczyno moja.......", presumably Mickiewicz was referring here to his spiritual rather than exclusively his ancestral homeland!
Merely an educated guess on my part:-)
When he writes "Litwo, ojczyno moja.......", presumably Mickiewicz was referring here to his spiritual rather than exclusively his ancestral homeland!
Merely an educated guess on my part:-)
Lyzko
29 Jul 2017
Lyzko
29 Jul 2017
Love / Why can't a guy from a foreign country marry a girl from Poland ? [44]
@jon, you seem to be better informed about such matters than I. If a foreign national marries a Polish national, does the foreign national necessarily forfeit their citizenship? Never quite clear about that, because I do know that citizenship issues vary from country to country, for instance, if someone from an EU nation marries someone from a non-EU state.
@jon, you seem to be better informed about such matters than I. If a foreign national marries a Polish national, does the foreign national necessarily forfeit their citizenship? Never quite clear about that, because I do know that citizenship issues vary from country to country, for instance, if someone from an EU nation marries someone from a non-EU state.
Lyzko
28 Jul 2017
Lyzko
28 Jul 2017
News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]
Without NATO and without the EU, Europe, to which Poland rightfully belongs, would be finished!
Without NATO and without the EU, Europe, to which Poland rightfully belongs, would be finished!
Lyzko
28 Jul 2017
Off-Topic / What Poles know and eventually want to know about Slovenia and Slovenians ? [14]
Right, Delph! Slovene retains the old dual. Polish used to have it, but no longer, isn't that so?
Right, Delph! Slovene retains the old dual. Polish used to have it, but no longer, isn't that so?
Lyzko
28 Jul 2017
Travel / Traveling to Auschwitz this weekend in motorhome need advise on toll roads [8]
Aha, didn't catch that first time round. Thanks!
:-)
Aha, didn't catch that first time round. Thanks!
:-)
Lyzko
27 Jul 2017
Off-Topic / What Poles know and eventually want to know about Slovenia and Slovenians ? [14]
Oh wow, Delph! Didn't know that. How fascinating. In some languages such as Turkish, it's quite the opposite; the educated classes as opposed to dock workers or common laborers are precisely the ones who frequently pepper their language with so-called loan calques from Arabic aka "Ottomanisms"!
Oh wow, Delph! Didn't know that. How fascinating. In some languages such as Turkish, it's quite the opposite; the educated classes as opposed to dock workers or common laborers are precisely the ones who frequently pepper their language with so-called loan calques from Arabic aka "Ottomanisms"!
Lyzko
27 Jul 2017
Travel / Traveling to Auschwitz this weekend in motorhome need advise on toll roads [8]
Gandl, might one inquire as to which country you all will be traveling from? Austria, perhaps? Hungary then.
Merely curious:-)
Gandl, might one inquire as to which country you all will be traveling from? Austria, perhaps? Hungary then.
Merely curious:-)
Lyzko
27 Jul 2017
Off-Topic / What Poles know and eventually want to know about Slovenia and Slovenians ? [14]
Among my brief daliances with Slovene, I observed that in nearly every other Slavic language, the word for "word" bears some root similarity with "slow[v]-", while in Slovene, "word" translates as "beseda".
Interesting, I think.
Among my brief daliances with Slovene, I observed that in nearly every other Slavic language, the word for "word" bears some root similarity with "slow[v]-", while in Slovene, "word" translates as "beseda".
Interesting, I think.
Lyzko
27 Jul 2017
Work / Swedish speaking job in Warsaw. Salary? [9]
In addition to your other skills, a basic knowledge of Polish might prove valuable.
In addition to your other skills, a basic knowledge of Polish might prove valuable.
Lyzko
27 Jul 2017
Travel / Traveling to Auschwitz this weekend in motorhome need advise on toll roads [8]
I suggest you allow a respectful enough amount of time should you intend to plan a visit to the Auschwitz Site. In deference to the site itself, I wouldn't treat it as simply another tourist "excursion" with the family, unless of course you merely intend to pass through without stopping over on the way to somewhere else and are inquiring about tolls, passport and the like:-)
I suggest you allow a respectful enough amount of time should you intend to plan a visit to the Auschwitz Site. In deference to the site itself, I wouldn't treat it as simply another tourist "excursion" with the family, unless of course you merely intend to pass through without stopping over on the way to somewhere else and are inquiring about tolls, passport and the like:-)
Lyzko
27 Jul 2017
News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]
According to the latest reports from the US as well as the international news agencies, Bruxelles is considering a warning, but no sanctions as of yet.
According to the latest reports from the US as well as the international news agencies, Bruxelles is considering a warning, but no sanctions as of yet.
Lyzko
26 Jul 2017
Off-Topic / What Poles know and eventually want to know about Slovenia and Slovenians ? [14]
Yes. Ljubliana may be one of the most attractive Central European capitals, I'm told. And then there's the resort, Bled, in the mountains, I think:-)
Interesting language for a Polish speaker.
Yes. Ljubliana may be one of the most attractive Central European capitals, I'm told. And then there's the resort, Bled, in the mountains, I think:-)
Interesting language for a Polish speaker.
Lyzko
26 Jul 2017
Travel / Thanks for the Memories Poland [5]
Recall the "All in the Family" episode when Meathead's Uncle Cas (Kazimir) comes to visit and promptly instructs Archie on Polish families: "Now watch this, will ya? (Fingers clenched firmly together as one). This is my family. Now, you try and pull my family apart, huh?!"
The Poles have a wonderful old saying, proudly displayed usually near the crucifix in the living room of every traditional Polish home: GOSC W DOMU, PAN BOG W DOMU!" (A Guest in the house, the Lord God in the house). Pretty much sums up the guileless Polish character and its feelings about the central core of hospitality to a T.
Sorry for the lack of the appropriate diacritical marks aboveLOL
Recall the "All in the Family" episode when Meathead's Uncle Cas (Kazimir) comes to visit and promptly instructs Archie on Polish families: "Now watch this, will ya? (Fingers clenched firmly together as one). This is my family. Now, you try and pull my family apart, huh?!"
The Poles have a wonderful old saying, proudly displayed usually near the crucifix in the living room of every traditional Polish home: GOSC W DOMU, PAN BOG W DOMU!" (A Guest in the house, the Lord God in the house). Pretty much sums up the guileless Polish character and its feelings about the central core of hospitality to a T.
Sorry for the lack of the appropriate diacritical marks aboveLOL
Lyzko
26 Jul 2017
News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]
Too much unsolicited interference from the EU may hinder rather than help Poland's cause, I fear!
Too much unsolicited interference from the EU may hinder rather than help Poland's cause, I fear!
Lyzko
26 Jul 2017
History / In Memory of victims, who had their lives cruelly taken at Treblinka Death Camp in Poland [104]
Quiet and agonizing, I'm certain!
While I've never been, I was many years ago a visitor at the Dachau Memorial Site at the camp's location outside of Munich. While better "maintained" aka sanitized than Auschwitz, for example, the very site of the word "KREMATORIUM" was too much for me. I took a walk around the exterior grounds and returned to my lodgings.....promptly bursting into tears as soon as I had a free, rare, and desparately needed, moment alone from my hosts:-)
Quiet and agonizing, I'm certain!
While I've never been, I was many years ago a visitor at the Dachau Memorial Site at the camp's location outside of Munich. While better "maintained" aka sanitized than Auschwitz, for example, the very site of the word "KREMATORIUM" was too much for me. I took a walk around the exterior grounds and returned to my lodgings.....promptly bursting into tears as soon as I had a free, rare, and desparately needed, moment alone from my hosts:-)
Lyzko
26 Jul 2017
Travel / Thanks for the Memories Poland [5]
Welcome home, Bull!
Your wife is a lucky woman to be married to someone who appreciates her keen interest in languages. Many husbands wouldn't. For that matter, I'm also one of 'em! My wife's an "amateur" linguist, though more in the direction of German, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian.
Best of luck....POWODZENIA:-)
Welcome home, Bull!
Your wife is a lucky woman to be married to someone who appreciates her keen interest in languages. Many husbands wouldn't. For that matter, I'm also one of 'em! My wife's an "amateur" linguist, though more in the direction of German, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian.
Best of luck....POWODZENIA:-)
Lyzko
26 Jul 2017
History / In Memory of victims, who had their lives cruelly taken at Treblinka Death Camp in Poland [104]
Treblinka is merely ONE symbol of the unspeakable. It's meant as a metaphor, not as a single monument to Nazi insanity. Whether Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Natzweiler-Stutthof etc, weren't specifically "death camps" or not, remains academic, not to mention insulting to the memory of both victims and survivors.
The motto of the first of those was "Break the body, break the spirit, break the heart!" How else other than through death preceded by often slow torture, did the Nazis choose to rid the world of their intended victims?
Treblinka is merely ONE symbol of the unspeakable. It's meant as a metaphor, not as a single monument to Nazi insanity. Whether Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Natzweiler-Stutthof etc, weren't specifically "death camps" or not, remains academic, not to mention insulting to the memory of both victims and survivors.
The motto of the first of those was "Break the body, break the spirit, break the heart!" How else other than through death preceded by often slow torture, did the Nazis choose to rid the world of their intended victims?
Lyzko
26 Jul 2017
Love / Want to know the way I can marry my lovely Polish girl in Poland [8]
In Poland, only ONE wife per customer, thank you:)
In Poland, only ONE wife per customer, thank you:)
Lyzko
26 Jul 2017
News / Was Kaczyński behind the presidential veto? [65]
Not according to the faculty of Krakow U.:-)
@Tacitus, Poland is undergoing a wrenching transition from democracy to reactionary dictatorship. You leave your justice system dependent on the whims of the ruling party and you might as well start praying. I believe that she's in much deeper trouble than Germany.
Curious as to what the pundits have to say about all this!
Not according to the faculty of Krakow U.:-)
@Tacitus, Poland is undergoing a wrenching transition from democracy to reactionary dictatorship. You leave your justice system dependent on the whims of the ruling party and you might as well start praying. I believe that she's in much deeper trouble than Germany.
Curious as to what the pundits have to say about all this!
Lyzko
25 Jul 2017
Lyzko
25 Jul 2017
News / Was Kaczyński behind the presidential veto? [65]
"Yuck, that rag..."
Ever bother to read it? The English is rather high level, I'll grant you, but at least try! If I'm willing to plow through "Rzeczpospolita" without asking for a barf bag, you can at least do the same for the NYTLOL
"Yuck, that rag..."
Ever bother to read it? The English is rather high level, I'll grant you, but at least try! If I'm willing to plow through "Rzeczpospolita" without asking for a barf bag, you can at least do the same for the NYTLOL
Lyzko
25 Jul 2017
News / Was Kaczyński behind the presidential veto? [65]
Duda simply wished to assert his (quasi-)independence from Kaczynski in order to show his superiors that he's no longer a pawn. I'm sure the President has his reasons.
Interesting op-ed piece in today's New York Times written by a Polish fellow at the Institute for Social Research ("Dlaczego Trump milczy o wydarzeniach w Polsce?"), wondering why Trump has been so curiously silent regarding this matter:-)
Duda simply wished to assert his (quasi-)independence from Kaczynski in order to show his superiors that he's no longer a pawn. I'm sure the President has his reasons.
Interesting op-ed piece in today's New York Times written by a Polish fellow at the Institute for Social Research ("Dlaczego Trump milczy o wydarzeniach w Polsce?"), wondering why Trump has been so curiously silent regarding this matter:-)
Lyzko
25 Jul 2017
News / Was Kaczyński behind the presidential veto? [65]
Just like the AfD'ers to the SPD-adherents next door:-)
Just like the AfD'ers to the SPD-adherents next door:-)
Lyzko
25 Jul 2017
Lyzko
25 Jul 2017