Posts by cdnpp

cdnpp

21 Apr 2010

Life / Why do Silesians call people from Warsaw "Gorole"? [15]

For some reason I thought gorol was another form of goral.. Wikipedia also seems to think so. They give gorole as the Cieszyn Silesian term for highlanders.

cdnpp

21 Apr 2010

Life / Why do Silesians call people from Warsaw "Gorole"? [15]

Silesians sometimes complain about 'gorole'. At first, I thought they were referring to the Gorole of southern Poland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorals

but it appears that quite often they're referring to people from Warsaw... I assume they're being sarcastic since from my limited knowledge of Polish geography, there aren't any mountains in Masovia. But why use a name that will cause so much confusion? Does this have something to do with the fact that some Silesians want autonomy but there's less interest in the southern part of Silesia associated with Gorole. So perhaps that's how Gorole became conflated with Warsaw.. maybe they think the Gorole are on Warsaw's side?

cdnpp

21 Apr 2010

Genealogy / Are Poles aware of Thracian aspect in original roots of Polish ethos? [69]

There's a possibility that Balto-Slavic and Thracian may have been on the same branch of Indo-European. They both have the Satem sound change and in pagan times, the Thracians main god was Perkon which looks very similar to the most important god in Balto-Slavic mythology known as Perkunas, Perkons, Perun, etc. And in both Balto-Slavic and Thracian, this god was associated with thunder and oak trees..

cdnpp

21 Apr 2010

Law / WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF THE EURO CURRENCY TO POLAND? [101]

I believe one of the main benefits is lower borrowing costs because you're seen as less risky if you're part of the eurozone. But I'm not sure that's the case anymore given Greece's problems..