Lyzko
31 May 2017
Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]
Nalesniki look to me a bit more like blintzes or even blinis.
Nalesniki look to me a bit more like blintzes or even blinis.
Lyzko
31 May 2017
History / Bialystok most famous son. Albert Sabin or Ludwig Zamenhof [8]
Indeed, plainfacts. Numerous Poles of Jewish heritage have made stellar contributions to world culture, among them those you mention above, also Josef Hofmann (whom experts consider superior even to Horowitz and Rubinstein, on a par with Liszt or Dinu Lipatti, the latter among recording artists), Casimir Funk, Stanislaw Bem, Selman Waxman etc....
Nice thread post, thanks!
Indeed, plainfacts. Numerous Poles of Jewish heritage have made stellar contributions to world culture, among them those you mention above, also Josef Hofmann (whom experts consider superior even to Horowitz and Rubinstein, on a par with Liszt or Dinu Lipatti, the latter among recording artists), Casimir Funk, Stanislaw Bem, Selman Waxman etc....
Nice thread post, thanks!
Lyzko
30 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
Conversely. I'm "attacking" your conservative propaganda, so he with the stronger ammo wins by default:-)
Nothing to apologize for. You've merely strayed from the path of reason and I'm just trying to set you straight, no more, no less!
Conversely. I'm "attacking" your conservative propaganda, so he with the stronger ammo wins by default:-)
Nothing to apologize for. You've merely strayed from the path of reason and I'm just trying to set you straight, no more, no less!
Lyzko
30 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
...and your continued, not to mention unfounded, espursions, are giving me a green apple bellyache, pal!
So reactionary conservatives have something over liberals?? Pray, do tell:-) Bleeding heart? At least I have a heart to bleed. It's what separates the humans from the four-legged variety.
...and your continued, not to mention unfounded, espursions, are giving me a green apple bellyache, pal!
So reactionary conservatives have something over liberals?? Pray, do tell:-) Bleeding heart? At least I have a heart to bleed. It's what separates the humans from the four-legged variety.
Lyzko
30 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
I too, but, that's what makes horse racing!
I too, but, that's what makes horse racing!
Lyzko
30 May 2017
Lyzko
30 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
Sanctus Spiritus, hate to disillusion ya, but I ain't no "happy liberal", rather, a conservative democrat, deeply dismayed at the craven behavior of both my party as well as my country!
I too decry run-away diversity and have come to regret the day affirmative action invaded our midst.
We ought to start judging people once again based on what they ARE instead of what they AREN'T:-)
Sanctus Spiritus, hate to disillusion ya, but I ain't no "happy liberal", rather, a conservative democrat, deeply dismayed at the craven behavior of both my party as well as my country!
I too decry run-away diversity and have come to regret the day affirmative action invaded our midst.
We ought to start judging people once again based on what they ARE instead of what they AREN'T:-)
Lyzko
30 May 2017
Lyzko
30 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
@Maf, I agree and that is why I'm appealing to your intelligence and (what I hope remains) sharp judgement to separate the wheat from the chaff in this discussion! By declaring that ALL Muslims aka adherents of Islam are by definition members or supporters of ISIS, you would also concur by the same faulty yardstick that ALL followers of Christianity are fundamentalist morons and Jerry Fallwell supporters or that ALL Jews are adherents of Meier Kahan or the JDL etc..
It's the same sophomoric blame game, my friend:-)
@Maf, I agree and that is why I'm appealing to your intelligence and (what I hope remains) sharp judgement to separate the wheat from the chaff in this discussion! By declaring that ALL Muslims aka adherents of Islam are by definition members or supporters of ISIS, you would also concur by the same faulty yardstick that ALL followers of Christianity are fundamentalist morons and Jerry Fallwell supporters or that ALL Jews are adherents of Meier Kahan or the JDL etc..
It's the same sophomoric blame game, my friend:-)
Lyzko
30 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
I'd say our abilities to judge are clearly equal, Ironside! Those who can?? Who might they be? Have you some advanced degrees in the subject?
Maybe it's merely my American mentality, but not every person needs a license to open their mouth and express their beliefs. Certain people in history have thought so, and we know where that got us:-)
@Maf,
Would you put the Jewish practice of circumcision in the same category as "genital mutilation" etc.?? Rather short sighted. I'm surprise at you, frankly!
I'd say our abilities to judge are clearly equal, Ironside! Those who can?? Who might they be? Have you some advanced degrees in the subject?
Maybe it's merely my American mentality, but not every person needs a license to open their mouth and express their beliefs. Certain people in history have thought so, and we know where that got us:-)
@Maf,
Would you put the Jewish practice of circumcision in the same category as "genital mutilation" etc.?? Rather short sighted. I'm surprise at you, frankly!
Lyzko
29 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
And Catholicism is perfect, Ironside? That's ethnocentric provincialisn on your part! Who are YOU to judge what's "garbage" vs. what isn't anyhow?
And Catholicism is perfect, Ironside? That's ethnocentric provincialisn on your part! Who are YOU to judge what's "garbage" vs. what isn't anyhow?
Lyzko
28 May 2017
News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]
The Kapos, you mean? Yes, to a degree you're right about that. However, most weren't able to "buy their way" out of extermination, and bribery was usually met with the harshest reprisals, both for the prisoners, as well as the person who initiated the bribe.
The Kapos, you mean? Yes, to a degree you're right about that. However, most weren't able to "buy their way" out of extermination, and bribery was usually met with the harshest reprisals, both for the prisoners, as well as the person who initiated the bribe.
Lyzko
28 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
The point is though that as much as certain European countries wish to remain hermetically sealed off from the non-Christian world, the fact remains that it isn't Islam that's bad, as with guns or firearms in and of themselves, rather those who continually abuse the basic goodness of the Qu'ran, the Bible, the Upanishads or whichever book is said to hold "truth" for its followers!!
The point is though that as much as certain European countries wish to remain hermetically sealed off from the non-Christian world, the fact remains that it isn't Islam that's bad, as with guns or firearms in and of themselves, rather those who continually abuse the basic goodness of the Qu'ran, the Bible, the Upanishads or whichever book is said to hold "truth" for its followers!!
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
Fundamentalist Shiites are not the same as moderate Sunnis. Regrettably, Erdogan's trying to eradicate this distinction. How Ataturk would be turning over in his grave!. Or was he cremated?LOL
Fundamentalist Shiites are not the same as moderate Sunnis. Regrettably, Erdogan's trying to eradicate this distinction. How Ataturk would be turning over in his grave!. Or was he cremated?LOL
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
Yepski, blaming the many for the misdeeds of the few. So sixth grade, isn't it? We can do better.
Yepski, blaming the many for the misdeeds of the few. So sixth grade, isn't it? We can do better.
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Language / Widespread diminutivisation in Polish hard for learners or not? [6]
Wow!! Never knew that. Learnin' stuff every day, dude! Keep it comin:-))
Wow!! Never knew that. Learnin' stuff every day, dude! Keep it comin:-))
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Language / Anybody speak Ślunzok? [9]
Oooh, nice one Polonius! Thanks:-) Shows how related language family speakers once perceived each others' native tongue.
Oooh, nice one Polonius! Thanks:-) Shows how related language family speakers once perceived each others' native tongue.
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Language / Anybody speak Ślunzok? [9]
Interesting connection between "gwara" or "dialect" in Polish, "gwar" or "noise" and then the verb "g[o]VORit" (to speak) in Russian vs. "mowic" in Polish (no doubt a kissing cousin, at least a relative of Czech "mlutvit"). What passes for speech in Russian may at one time long ago been considered noise in Polish:-)
Just thought I'd chime in here with this off-topic observation!
Interesting connection between "gwara" or "dialect" in Polish, "gwar" or "noise" and then the verb "g[o]VORit" (to speak) in Russian vs. "mowic" in Polish (no doubt a kissing cousin, at least a relative of Czech "mlutvit"). What passes for speech in Russian may at one time long ago been considered noise in Polish:-)
Just thought I'd chime in here with this off-topic observation!
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
Pick and choose, Ironside, that's all we ask. One or two rotten apples oughtn't spoil the whole batch!
Pick and choose, Ironside, that's all we ask. One or two rotten apples oughtn't spoil the whole batch!
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
Just wondering whether or not the converse rule applies:-)
Just wondering whether or not the converse rule applies:-)
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
Thanks, matey, I'd rather not, just finishing my late breakfastLOL
Thanks, matey, I'd rather not, just finishing my late breakfastLOL
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Language / Widespread diminutivisation in Polish hard for learners or not? [6]
Yet it's so built into the language, without using them properly and appropriately, Polish just isn't Polish.
Once knew a gent in grad school named Stanislaw and we got on rather well, I thought. We spoke a mixture of Polish sometimes and English, yet I inadventently called him "Stanislaw", after all, it was his name. However, when he asked me once whether or not I was annoyed at him for some reason and I answered no, he then asked, "No, Marku, dlaczego mnie nie nazywasz "Stasio"?
I think this is much more exaggerated than here in the States, where scores of kids I knew said they preferred, for instance, "David" to "Dave" or "Davey" etc.
Yet it's so built into the language, without using them properly and appropriately, Polish just isn't Polish.
Once knew a gent in grad school named Stanislaw and we got on rather well, I thought. We spoke a mixture of Polish sometimes and English, yet I inadventently called him "Stanislaw", after all, it was his name. However, when he asked me once whether or not I was annoyed at him for some reason and I answered no, he then asked, "No, Marku, dlaczego mnie nie nazywasz "Stasio"?
I think this is much more exaggerated than here in the States, where scores of kids I knew said they preferred, for instance, "David" to "Dave" or "Davey" etc.
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Work / Work Culture and Expenses - 11000 PLN gross in Poznan [27]
Still, in my experience, it's always better to have more than merely a touristic grasp of the local lingo. I'm sure dozens of Poles on the streets of Poznan, Warsaw etc... will be more than eager to practice their English with a foreign visitor, yet, as on the streets of nearly any European metropolis, the quality can vary from zilch to mediocre to fairly native sounding. Problem is, which one has which level of English??!
If you can figure than one out, you're goodLOL
Still, in my experience, it's always better to have more than merely a touristic grasp of the local lingo. I'm sure dozens of Poles on the streets of Poznan, Warsaw etc... will be more than eager to practice their English with a foreign visitor, yet, as on the streets of nearly any European metropolis, the quality can vary from zilch to mediocre to fairly native sounding. Problem is, which one has which level of English??!
If you can figure than one out, you're goodLOL
Lyzko
27 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]
...that's why, jon, can't you tell!! You can never call a fool a fool, you can only get 'em mad (angry):-)
...that's why, jon, can't you tell!! You can never call a fool a fool, you can only get 'em mad (angry):-)
Lyzko
27 May 2017
News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]
@Bieganski, your argument is purely specious! As you must know, the comparison between Jews and gentiles in Poland was hardly a level playing field; Jews, as always, were outnumbered by their Christian brethren. If they could have helped the latter were the tables turned and the situation reversed, you can bet your sweet ass the Jews would have helped defend their non-Jewish neighbors:-)
@Ironside, since when is a Jewish Pole not a Pole?? I also received a rather tilt reaction from another non-Jewish Pole from Lublin, when I asked about the percentage of Polish-Jewish students (if any) also attending the Catholic University. She replied quizzically that probably they would be attending the school for "foreign" studentsLOL This conversation took place a scant TWO years ago and Danuta was only twenty one. I wanted to ask politely whether a Jew born in Poland, with a Polish name, e.g. Romek Markowicz or the like, born in Lublin, educated at primary school there and knowing no other city, language or culture other than the Polish culture would still in her eyes be considered a "foreigner". I restrained myself however, being rather taken with her an all, and so decided not to pursue it. Coulda kicked myself after!! :-)
@Bieganski, your argument is purely specious! As you must know, the comparison between Jews and gentiles in Poland was hardly a level playing field; Jews, as always, were outnumbered by their Christian brethren. If they could have helped the latter were the tables turned and the situation reversed, you can bet your sweet ass the Jews would have helped defend their non-Jewish neighbors:-)
@Ironside, since when is a Jewish Pole not a Pole?? I also received a rather tilt reaction from another non-Jewish Pole from Lublin, when I asked about the percentage of Polish-Jewish students (if any) also attending the Catholic University. She replied quizzically that probably they would be attending the school for "foreign" studentsLOL This conversation took place a scant TWO years ago and Danuta was only twenty one. I wanted to ask politely whether a Jew born in Poland, with a Polish name, e.g. Romek Markowicz or the like, born in Lublin, educated at primary school there and knowing no other city, language or culture other than the Polish culture would still in her eyes be considered a "foreigner". I restrained myself however, being rather taken with her an all, and so decided not to pursue it. Coulda kicked myself after!! :-)
Lyzko
26 May 2017
Lyzko
26 May 2017
News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]
And some Poles weren't aka (still) aren't?? Who's being the blindsided hypocrite now? So, hypocrisy's only when Jews do it, but when "others" do it, then it's excusable, is that it?
And some Poles weren't aka (still) aren't?? Who's being the blindsided hypocrite now? So, hypocrisy's only when Jews do it, but when "others" do it, then it's excusable, is that it?
Lyzko
26 May 2017
News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]
In essence, rozumiemnic, I can only agree. No "disrespect" taken, ever. This is what an open forum ought to be about:-) Then there's the US-Native American thing etc....., the British starving the Boers... Right on.
The Holocaust though presents markedly different issues concerning both means as well as ends. Whereas, I've noted many times prior, Stalin allowed for his underlings to curry favor and grovel in order to allow them to live, where ol' Pol Pot murdered indiscriminantly and even Mao would spare the lives of landed overlords in so far as they relinquished their holdings and humbled their arroigance for the "people's good", Hitler permitted no such allowance for the Jews. Above all, FULL Jews anywhere within the Reich were automatically slated for annihilation, no exceptions. Service in the WWI, Iron Cross, Goethe's poetry above the bed, Wagner music blasting away to show what good German patriots many were, NOTHING could commute their inexorable death sentence in the most unspeakable manner imaginable.
In essence, rozumiemnic, I can only agree. No "disrespect" taken, ever. This is what an open forum ought to be about:-) Then there's the US-Native American thing etc....., the British starving the Boers... Right on.
The Holocaust though presents markedly different issues concerning both means as well as ends. Whereas, I've noted many times prior, Stalin allowed for his underlings to curry favor and grovel in order to allow them to live, where ol' Pol Pot murdered indiscriminantly and even Mao would spare the lives of landed overlords in so far as they relinquished their holdings and humbled their arroigance for the "people's good", Hitler permitted no such allowance for the Jews. Above all, FULL Jews anywhere within the Reich were automatically slated for annihilation, no exceptions. Service in the WWI, Iron Cross, Goethe's poetry above the bed, Wagner music blasting away to show what good German patriots many were, NOTHING could commute their inexorable death sentence in the most unspeakable manner imaginable.