Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Aha, "top brass". Now THAT makes sense [finally]:-)

Don't be so defensive about your English. Both our second languages need help from time to time! Truth be told, you're not half bad at it either.

back on topic please

News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]

How safe is safe then? Need one necessarily throw oneself in front of a firing squad, merely to draw others' attention to injustice??

Not certain I take your point, much less understand it:-)

@Not exactly, Bieganski! Jews only want the record set straight, that's all! So what's your excuse? And by the by, while we're on the subject, just what do Jewish Poles owe gentile Poles precisely, I'm not sure I see what you're driving at here?

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

"Brass people"?? Write English, for heaven's sake!

News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]

Apparently, a "spoiled brat" to you translates as "sensitive human being" vs. the sort of roughneck thugs you and your ilk hold up on a pedestal.

Better late than never, I say!

News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]

Who? Caring humans, Ironside, that's who!! If you're not one of them, kindly don't denigrate those who are, or, a la Shakespeare, do you really think that "conscience doth make cowards of us all"??

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Happens all the time here, Maf, with dramatic regularity!

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Killing simply makes martyrs of them; jail time without possibility of parole, makes them suffer. If they commit suicide along the road to their reflection and hopefully ultimate salvation, then so be it, as they forfeited "humanitarian" aide the very moment they decided for ideological reasons to take an innocent life.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Self defense is not always cut-and-dried either, Maf. Certain countries don't even acknowledge a self-defense law, such as Italy (if you recall that Amanda what's her face trial) and so again, it's wrong to kill, even in when it can't be helped! So long as we face up to that fact, we won't justify rampant killing aka manslaughter out of unbearable frustration!

In trying to save humanity, we risk losing our own. Killing another won't bring the cherished dead back to life.
:-)

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

No, Maf! But when the good begin to mimic their enemies in the pursuit of good, then the good become evil and the heroes become the villains!

Killing is ALWAYS wrong, says the Bible, whether in a worthy cause or not; only G_d may take a life, only Humankind may try to save it:-)

Language / Widespread diminutivisation in Polish hard for learners or not? [6]

Frankly, I think the diminutivization is part of the charm of Polish! Hard? Not for me, at any rate. I struggled with plenty, but not with diminutivization:-)

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Not all Muslims support ISIS any more than not all Germans supported Hitler. Therefore, why punish the innocent along with the guilty?? It makes no sense.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

The way the ancient missionaries would torture, sometimes put to death, harmless locals in order to convert them to the Christian way is nothing I'd ever be proud of, Johnny! Do your research and finally get it through your thick head that not everything your people stand for is automatically right.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

How about the actions by those Crusaders of yore. How loudly did they speak? Pretty loudly, I'd wager:-)

I'm merely trying to say that Muslims in and of themselves are no better or no worse than the adherents of any other religion.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Oh, great! And I suppose then that the Crusades, the Inquisition, even the KKK, burned crosses, burned innocent citizens, and committed unprovoked acts of brutality because they were atheists??! They were all the ultimate hypocrites, committing murder in the name of Man, but blaming it on G_d LOL

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

...but oh soooooo entertainingly different for us Yanks:-))

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

Yes, that sounds about right.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

And so, a la Archie Bunker, you're arguing that any sins Christians commit against their own or especially "others" is therefore all right because sanctioned by the Bible???! You are an unrepenetant, hopeless ignorosis, Johnny! Then again, don't suppose you even care, your kind never does. Heck, you elected a hack numbskull for President:-)

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Violence DOES beget violence, I'm givin' ya that much. Yet does it justify using the tactics of our enemy while pretending we're doing it, all in G_d's, Jaweh's, and Allah's name???! Seems a mite hypocritical now doesn't it, not to mention disingenuous:-)

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Therefore, does one wrong deserve a second wrong?? You seem to forget that unwillingness to accept defeat, error or personal responsibility begins to resemble our own sitting (duck) president Donald, a man who by his own admission can do no wrong because he's the Pres and you ain'tLOL

Geeezloueezz man, smarten up for pity's sake!!! The rule of Islam was surely no crueler than centuries of Christianity being proselytized and stuffed down people's throats, don't forget the lovely Inquisition as well as our very own homegrown Salem Witch Trials, where bigots burned a woman for the right to be and think differently!!

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

By the same token is Christianity a "sick religion" because of the bloody Crusades she unleashed by forcing baptism and conversion on innocents??! Is Judaism also in keeping because they fed the Christians to the lions etc...

Language / Learning A Language While Learning Polish? [3]

Merely a gentle word of caution. Learning TWO Slavic languages simultaneously could be a recipe for disaster. False friends between, say, Russian and Polish, abound and often the basic word stock is different enough to cause extreme confusion. Even the grammar between related languages is not always a safe bet for mutual intelligibility.

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

Righto, Paulina! Russians are the big tea drinkers, what with their samovars and tea infusers. Many of us in the Occident forget that coffee may well have traveled from South, then East (Ethiopia) to West (Turkey, later Austria), but tea was always the preferred beverage of the Russian Court:-)

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

Thanks, Atch!

Co wiedziemy my Prusy o kawie? Was wissen wir Pieken ueberhaupt vom Kaffeetrinken? What the heck do we Prussians know about coffee anyway?
Berlin's an exceptionLOL

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

"Szklanka" is a regular glass, I believe, and "filizanka" is more like a demi-tasse cup, right?

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

Interesting, jon. I've never asked for a cup of coffee any other way in Polish than how I just phrased it! In German, I'd naturally ask "Eine Tasse Kaffee, bitte!", other than that, I haven't felt the need to be any more specific. Then again, I don't pretend to be a native Polish speakerLOL

As coffee in my recollection is normally always served in a "cup", whether or not it's a "regular" saucer cup or a mug, makes little difference to me.

On a different note, I do recall asking for beer differently in German-speaking countries than either in Poland or the States:-)

Language / "Cup of coffee" translated in Poland as Kubek kawy. Why not a mug? [70]

Forgive my lack of form, but I simply say "Prosze o kawe!" when ordering from a Polish waiter/waitress and simply dispense with the "cup of":-)

Polonia / Learning Polish in Amsterdam [19]

Dutch sometimes call Afrikaans "kindertaal" aka "baby language" and to an extent, it seems at best an almost simplified version of the colonial mother tongue:-)

Polonia / Learning Polish in Amsterdam [19]

Spot on there, jon:-) Good stuff, enjoy the bend!

Polonia / Learning Polish in Amsterdam [19]

I learned something then, jon! Thanks:-)

Oh, regarding your Russian Polish-speaking mate, a similar experience actually happened to me as well, when I was once prospecting for translation work in Copenhagen, 'ooops, sorry KOEBENHAVN (LOL) and when I introduced myself to my future colleagues in Danish, in true 'hyggelig' (gezellig, gemuetlich) Danish fashion, they actually began laughing, attempting to politely downplay the very notion of a need for any foreigner to learn their admittedly limited native tongue.

If truth be told, their English was generally atrocious, substandard and even not always comprehensible, but I pretended of course as though I didn't notice a thing..we got along fine.

Back to the thread, learning Polish in Amsterdam must again be akin to learning Hungarian or the like in Paris. Doubtless there is a Hungarian colony, yet why on earth not go to Hungary for chrissake instead of Paris:-)))

Polonia / Learning Polish in Amsterdam [19]

Scots isn't a "separate" language, Norn however.......

There's an old saying: "Good butter and good cheese is good English and good Fries." Not sure which of its sundry dialects though:-)

A reminder that this thread is titled "Learning Polish in Amsterdam"

Dutch 'kofschip' spelling rules can be much more slippery than German orthography, even following the Second Spelling Reform. English of course is THE most chaotic spellers' nightmare known!!

LOL

As far as I'm aware, there are numerous Polish immigrants in and around Amsterdam who'd love to finally learn Dutch, as communicating from one group of people speaking broken English with another group speaking perhaps slightly less broken English remains a sheer exercise in futility to my mind.