Language / Z in usage with a verb... [20]

I never included a reflexive. Even I know that:-)

Language / 'ucha' [23]

Thanks, Lenka.

Language / English sentences into Polish (want to test my knowledge) [27]

Give it a whack!

Language / 'ucha' [23]

Or how about "klamucha" for " f-## liar"

Language / Z in usage with a verb... [20]

Ojciec bil syna = The father beat/was [in the process of] beating his son vs. Ojciec ZAbil syna = The father beat his son [..so badly as to sustain life threatening injuries or even worse] Back to previous example: Czy rozumial(a) pan(i)? = Did you understand? vs. Czy zrozumial(a) pan(i)? = Do you [finally] understand?

Language / Z in usage with a verb... [20]

Additional example: rozumiec = to understand zrozumiec = to [begin to] understand

Life / Fast Food missing in Poland [48]

You bet, matey! About the only place around with decent chlodnik or bigos.

Life / Fast Food missing in Poland [48]

Thanks, Milo. Next time I'm in Greenpoint, I'll ck.it out:-)

Life / Fast Food missing in Poland [48]

Polish slow food's so gosh darn yummy, why ever settle for any US crapola?

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

??? Come again, please?

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

On the streets of Philadelphia in the 18óO's, Catholics were attacked by angry mobs as "Papísts" and "Friends of Rome"!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

I must concur; Polish-Jews are both.

Life / Communication and Polish culture [7]

Mishima Yukio's generation wasn't exactly crazy about us stinky, loutish, primitíve round eye either, so the dislike cuts both ways, as I've expatiated here at some length.

Life / Communication and Polish culture [7]

Don't judge them by YOUR standards of culturally or socially "correct" behavior-:)

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Earthly thoughts

Life / Communication and Polish culture [7]

Do try your level best not to impute ethnocentric notions to another culture. Poles I know and have worked with for years simply have often a more up front way of expressing themselves than Anglo-Saxons are used to.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Blew what? Folks here once claimed a Catholic could never be President as their allegiance would be to Rome, not AmericaLOL

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Julian Tuwim and Artur Rubinstein considered themselves proud Polish Jews, historically Jewish, but Polish by birth as well as nationality!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

I don't want gentiles to "emulate" Jews, just allow us to live together in peace.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

You're Russian then. Awwrigt, be cagey, don't tell. You'll trip yourself up eventually anyhow. As far as your post, both Germany and Poland scarcely had a monopoly on anti-Semitism. How about Romania, Ukraine, and Russiá?

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

As a German, you'd be familiar with such in your country's history, unless you also happen to be Jewish.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Kennst du vielleicht "The Milgram Experiments"? Do you know the Milgram Experiments perchance ?

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Education is the key in combatting bigotry aka ignorance.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

@Novichok, I am assimilated, but not a convert.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Go back to grade school!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Catholics were a majority, Jews weren't!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Assimilated Jews were loyal Poles, Germans, French etc.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Never?! Really. Guess you were more fortunate than most:-)

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

People, why should anti-Semitism remain such a shock? Look at the facts. Practically no other European country has been as staunchly Roman Catholic as Poland. What language did to serve as the glue to hold together all German lands, faith did for the Polish people.The Church preached that the Jews crucified Jesus and the Poles swallowed it hook line and sinker, with precious few exceptions

Travel / Architecture style in Poland [24]

Having lived in as well as travelled through Germany, Bavaria would without a doubt be the most majestic and breathtaking, Upper Bavaria such as Werdenfelser Land in particular!