Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Just remembered one of the first idioms, idiomatic sayings, I ever learned: MADRY POLAK PO SZKODZIE = ONE'S ALWAYS
WISER AFTER THE FACT, or something to that effect:-)

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]

Fair enough, pawian.

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]

In the Masur, if I'm not mistaken, is near to where "Noz w wodzie" was filmed.

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]

No, byles harcierzem tez, pawian?
:-)
stick to the English, please

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]

I seem to remember a particular verse, and thought for a long while that it was some type of
children's verse:

"Lato, lato, lato czeka...."

Always knew it was a summer song, but it reminded me of something that moms might
sing to their kids on the first day of summer, a fun picknick, family time, or something of the like.
:-)

Genealogy / KUKULA ancestry [32]

More Hungarian originally, I'd guess.

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [97]

Thanks for that, TheOther! I could always use a good laughLOL

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [97]

Just look at the way in which East German textbooks taught (or didn't teach) the Holocaust!

Unless it has changed, I've read and have spoken with former East Germans, who reported that any mention of the
Jews as victims of Nazi genocide was nearly whitewashed, instead hailing those murdered Jews as "heroes of the
East German State who died as good Communists fighting the Faschist foe."

Not exactly the way it happened there, kids:-)

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Sure. The Commies got duped twice, once by their own leaders, the second time by the new regime!
Either way, they got screwed big time. Obvious? It's as plain as the nose on your face.

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

'Course not.

It's stuff like this that gives coups a bad name!

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Whom else would you quote, pawian?

Look, can't see what the big mystery is. I steal your wallet and then YOU are expected to compensate ME for YOUR theft??!
Think man!

Typo.
"I steal you wallet and then YOU'RE expected to compensate me for MY theft?"

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Who?? Those who were directly responsible for the theft, of course!

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

I simply meant that it's more than merely "unfair", it's downright, yea criminally, unjust!
Seems to me more a shakedown than a mandate.

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Not an answer, and you know it.

Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [34]

Budapest though, when compared with either Polish cities I've visited namely one, or photos I've seen of Warsaw or Cracow, has a special charm, seemingly untouched by the bombings during WWII! Vienna was not that lucky.

Probably things have changed since the late '90's, but when I was there for my third visit since 1990, people noticing that I was a foreign tourist, would address me across the board only in German, rather than in English. I found this amusing, if at the same time completely understandable:-)

Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [34]

Budapest is perhaps still the most physically beautiful capital city in Europe, including Paris, Prague, and Barcelona!
The Houses of Parliament (Az Orszaghaz) are truly breathtaking, as too the Hosok ter, nearly as majestic as Vienna's Heldenplatz:-)

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

That then remains the fault of the Polish government. Why then should ordinary Poles be forced to suffer for state-sanctioned failures?

Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Crazy stories, huh? Poor guy!

Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Heard of a dude who grew up during the Communist Era in a really polluted area, his body got so used to infected water,
the first drink of unpolluted water he ever drank was what finally killed him!

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

All part of Russian machismo, along with those polar-bear club guys who go skinny dipping buck naked in fifteen below in the dead of winter, do shots of Stolichnaya STRAIGHT, no chaser one after the other, stuff like that:-)

Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [34]

Thanks, Zzpla.

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

Sto lat, B.B!

Na zdrowie, GenossenLOL

Off-Topic / DALMATIA - How much Poles love Dalmatia ? [123]

You're confusing here institutional with spiritual Christianity. The Vatican aka The Catholic Church declared abortion, among other things, a sin bar none.
Merely because the Pope has so decreed doesn't necessarily make it right or just, does it? Or do you hold to the notion of papal infallibility as well?

Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [34]

Albeit slightly off topic, I read once in a US journal of comparative linguistics that Bulgarian is nearly the only Slavic language which has fewer aspectual distinctions and more verb tenses, compared with, say, Polish or Russian. Is this true?

Off-Topic / DALMATIA - How much Poles love Dalmatia ? [123]

Because an explanation remains somewhat opaque to you, needn't mean it's an evasion:-)
You, like many people, seek facts rather than enlightenment. Asian cultures, for example Korean and Japanese
find us round-eyes quite primitive and childlike in our impatient search for "truth", all wrapped up in a nice little
basket with pink ribbons. Truth isn't always "explained" to you digestibly, it often simply comes to you.

Life doesn't work according to how you think it does, and the ways of G-d are a mystery.

Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [34]

Oh sure, I realize that. Although in English, as is proverbial wisdom, "the" is always "the", "book" will always be "book" cf. "das Buch", "des Buches", "dem Buch[e]" or even more, "ksiazka", "ksiazki", "kziazce", "ksiazke", "kziazka" (with a little hook under the final 'a'!), "ksiazko" - and this is only in the singularLOL

What many conservative languages do in order to establish meaning, especially Finnish, Lithuanian, Estonian or Icelandic, also Welsh/Cymae, is to utilize morphological endings, whereas English, for example, uses word order by adding words to indicate grammatical shifts, along with prepositions to show relationships.

Off-Topic / DALMATIA - How much Poles love Dalmatia ? [123]

??? A person doesn't ask G-d for documentary evidence! His work is as it is, whatever it is.

Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [34]

However, Maf, English is considered by linguists an analytic language rather than a synthetic one, such as Polish, German, Lithuanian etc.
Upon thinking about it a little, I realized I posted precipitously, as our fellow poster might well be Asian:-)

Off-Topic / DALMATIA - How much Poles love Dalmatia ? [123]

Miracles DO exist, but they are not foolish ones aka The Tooth Fairy and such.
Miracles are G-d's way of throwing stones in our path, in order that we see them, not as permanent obstacles, rather, as a test of our humanity:-)

Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [34]

What is your native language, if I may ask? Except of course for the major Romance tongues, namely French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, Dutch, the three main Nordic Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, practically every European language has at least some case-driven grammar:-) Can't think of any which don't, except of course for English