Lyzko
8 Jul 2021
History / Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy. The Testimony of Survivors. [22]
Or an impetuously misguided hero, take your pick-:)
Or an impetuously misguided hero, take your pick-:)
Lyzko
8 Jul 2021
Lyzko
8 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
Nearly twenty years back or so. Still the same country, Johnny. National character never changes completely, only on the surface perhaps.
Nearly twenty years back or so. Still the same country, Johnny. National character never changes completely, only on the surface perhaps.
Lyzko
8 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
Yep, gotta side with Oathbreaker on that one I'm afraid. @Mafketis, although frequently middle-aged Poles do for sure harbor an often suspicious nature, I did find the Polish language to be a definite ice breaker, especially among women. Again, only in my own experience.
Yep, gotta side with Oathbreaker on that one I'm afraid. @Mafketis, although frequently middle-aged Poles do for sure harbor an often suspicious nature, I did find the Polish language to be a definite ice breaker, especially among women. Again, only in my own experience.
Lyzko
8 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
Poles both those whom I've met on holiday as well as in Poland have a well-deserved reputation for being a forthright bunch, not likely to mince words, as the expression goes, yet famous for their hospitality:-) While I never had any specific difficulties, many Polish people are indeed given to firing lots of personal questions at American-born, Polish-speaking visitors who are thought to be Jewish, e.g. "No, dlaczego pan mowi po polsku?" etc.
However, I'm only speaking from my experience, in Poland as well as at home!
Poles both those whom I've met on holiday as well as in Poland have a well-deserved reputation for being a forthright bunch, not likely to mince words, as the expression goes, yet famous for their hospitality:-) While I never had any specific difficulties, many Polish people are indeed given to firing lots of personal questions at American-born, Polish-speaking visitors who are thought to be Jewish, e.g. "No, dlaczego pan mowi po polsku?" etc.
However, I'm only speaking from my experience, in Poland as well as at home!
Lyzko
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
Faulty logic! It's therefore as "fraudulent" of the native to practice their lacking English on you according to your thinking.
And if they're speaking to you in a language other than their own, they are practicing, just as I am practicing my Polish in Poland
Faulty logic! It's therefore as "fraudulent" of the native to practice their lacking English on you according to your thinking.
And if they're speaking to you in a language other than their own, they are practicing, just as I am practicing my Polish in Poland
Lyzko
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
Oh, horrors Rich! Did you sprain your pride? You know I'm right, so why fight?-: )All countries automatically appreciate it when foreign tourists make a concerted effort to speak their language..even the Poles. I had zero problems whatsoever.
Oh, horrors Rich! Did you sprain your pride? You know I'm right, so why fight?-: )All countries automatically appreciate it when foreign tourists make a concerted effort to speak their language..even the Poles. I had zero problems whatsoever.
Lyzko
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
But an effective one, as you can readily see.
But an effective one, as you can readily see.
Lyzko
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
"Normal, everyday" English need not be excessively or gratuitously vulgar either.
"Normal, everyday" English need not be excessively or gratuitously vulgar either.
Lyzko
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
Communication though can be either aesthetically pleasing or ugly and purposely offensive-:) In emergency situations, knowing even a bare minimum of the target language can save a life. You people are simply parroting that '6O's nonsense.
Communication though can be either aesthetically pleasing or ugly and purposely offensive-:) In emergency situations, knowing even a bare minimum of the target language can save a life. You people are simply parroting that '6O's nonsense.
Lyzko
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
Quit projecting, Ironside! You're only making a bigger fool out of yourself than per usual LOL
Quit projecting, Ironside! You're only making a bigger fool out of yourself than per usual LOL
Lyzko
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
As but a mere visitor to any country, Poles visiting the States or certainly vice-versa, learning to speak or communicate properly in the target or native tongue of the country is nothing other than sheer common courtesy and respect, as I've expatiated here on a number of occasions. I'd go as far as to say such is a requirement.
As but a mere visitor to any country, Poles visiting the States or certainly vice-versa, learning to speak or communicate properly in the target or native tongue of the country is nothing other than sheer common courtesy and respect, as I've expatiated here on a number of occasions. I'd go as far as to say such is a requirement.
Lyzko
4 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
... who are the foreign tourists whom you so despise!
... who are the foreign tourists whom you so despise!
Lyzko
3 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]
...and money, but I guess that never occurred to you.
...and money, but I guess that never occurred to you.
Lyzko
3 Jul 2021
Lyzko
2 Jul 2021
Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]
In your (most) humble and ethnocentric opinion!
In your (most) humble and ethnocentric opinion!
Lyzko
2 Jul 2021
Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]
Brits then obviously aren't as hung up about their masculinity as Yanks-:)
Brits then obviously aren't as hung up about their masculinity as Yanks-:)
Lyzko
2 Jul 2021
Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]
Englíshmen though I've heard use "lovely" as a term of endearment in contrast with the Americans.
Englíshmen though I've heard use "lovely" as a term of endearment in contrast with the Americans.
Lyzko
2 Jul 2021
Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]
How about "Jaka sliczna!" as a term of romantic admiration?
How about "Jaka sliczna!" as a term of romantic admiration?
Lyzko
1 Jul 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]
The Soviet Union had a lot of other cockamamy notions, any resemblance either to the truth or to reality being entirely coincidental-:)
The Soviet Union had a lot of other cockamamy notions, any resemblance either to the truth or to reality being entirely coincidental-:)
Lyzko
1 Jul 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]
If the mother is of Jewish heritage, the immediate offspring is automatically Jewish, like Jesus. Clear enough?
If the mother is of Jewish heritage, the immediate offspring is automatically Jewish, like Jesus. Clear enough?
Lyzko
1 Jul 2021
Lyzko
30 Jun 2021
Lyzko
30 Jun 2021
Life / The Pole, as an example of a perfect Russophobe, in a spherical vacuum [42]
Much like accusing Poles of (lingering) Germanophobia, isn't it? Heck, their bigger, expansionist, mega-richer, bullying neighbor to the west maligns, marrauders, and murders her citizens, and now it's kumbaya time at the ol' hacienda? Polish Russophobia's imminently understandable, if for different reasons-:)
Much like accusing Poles of (lingering) Germanophobia, isn't it? Heck, their bigger, expansionist, mega-richer, bullying neighbor to the west maligns, marrauders, and murders her citizens, and now it's kumbaya time at the ol' hacienda? Polish Russophobia's imminently understandable, if for different reasons-:)
Lyzko
30 Jun 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [599]
Or to put a finer point on the question, what do GENTILES owe Jews?
Or to put a finer point on the question, what do GENTILES owe Jews?
Lyzko
29 Jun 2021
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]
Yes, it does not concern Israel directly.
Yes, it does not concern Israel directly.
Lyzko
26 Jun 2021
Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]
James Gandolfino was NOT an old-money W.A.S.P.!
James Gandolfino was NOT an old-money W.A.S.P.!
Lyzko
26 Jun 2021
Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]
Since accent is so inexorably tied to class in the UK as in few other places, what you say should come as no susprise.
Since accent is so inexorably tied to class in the UK as in few other places, what you say should come as no susprise.
Lyzko
26 Jun 2021
Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]
If you mean the likes of a Walter Cronkite, Sam Donaldson or other great voices of the past, I'd have to agree!
If you mean the likes of a Walter Cronkite, Sam Donaldson or other great voices of the past, I'd have to agree!
Lyzko
25 Jun 2021
Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]
No matter where one travels amid the admitted vastness of the entire English-speaking world, "B-A-T-H-R-O-O-M" may be pronounced any number of ways. Fine. However, any speakers substituting the "P-H"- sound for "T-H", as is the case among numerous African-Americans, are simply saying the word flat wrong, so stop bloody rationalizing plain laziness! Cultural relativism can't relativize that one.
No matter where one travels amid the admitted vastness of the entire English-speaking world, "B-A-T-H-R-O-O-M" may be pronounced any number of ways. Fine. However, any speakers substituting the "P-H"- sound for "T-H", as is the case among numerous African-Americans, are simply saying the word flat wrong, so stop bloody rationalizing plain laziness! Cultural relativism can't relativize that one.