History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]

@Novi, you can "phase out" a language, but not a culture - which informs a language and always has. Superimposing some metalanguage onto an already existing mother tongue of millions, in your example English onto Polish, German, what have you, is not only idiotic and ethnocentric, but impossible! Poles will never learn to communicate as an educated Anglo-Saxon native speaker.

Work / Black English Teacher going to Wroclaw [247]

Good luck finding many, that is, who would freely admit they speak it! A clannish bunch I must say.

Just an afterthought, people. Went on a Skype call with my Polish acqaintance here in Fort Lee not long after the virus broke, and we were on face time with her fiancee at an outdoor venue in the center of Gdansk. The casual passers by looked seemingly diverse to me. Noticed a number of blacks blending easily with the crowd:-)

Work / Black English Teacher going to Wroclaw [247]

I can only concur with Pawian. When last in the Polonia Bookstore aka Ksiegarnia Polska in Greenpoint, a mere month or so pre-Covid, the lady behind the register kept glancing at me as though I were a common thief. I greeted her in Polish, conducted the purchase transaction solely in Polish, yet nothing changed her suspicious behavior.

Po polsku / Kobiety odrzucają politykę kościoła [56]

Ludzie skrzykneli "UFAC KOBIETOM, NIE PEDOFILOM!"

Po polsku / Kobiety odrzucają politykę kościoła [56]

Ale dlaczego nie? @Nie, Novi. Ciekawy jestem:-)

History / Should David Irving, Holocaust denier, be allowed to run tours to Poland? [246]

Six million is only fiction if you're in deniaI.

History / Should David Irving, Holocaust denier, be allowed to run tours to Poland? [246]

That's it, way to go there Vesko! Make stuff up, then blame the victim. Brilliant.

Polonia / Behaviour of Polish migrant workers in the Netherlands [43]

During the '7O's, Híspanics, especially Puerto Ricans, were similarly castigated as rude, asocial eye sores on New York City, low-level migrants who often refused to learn our national language. The comments offered by non- Hispanic neighbors and fellow New Yorkers (erstwhile Nieuw AmsterdammersLOL) read much as Schaapje's.

Polonia / Behaviour of Polish migrant workers in the Netherlands [43]

A generalization consists in the nature of labelling a group of people, any people.

Polonia / Behaviour of Polish migrant workers in the Netherlands [43]

Not sure I quite see your point, Novichok. A blanket generalization remains just that, be it by Dutch about Poles or vice versa.What do you mean precisely?

Polonia / Behaviour of Polish migrant workers in the Netherlands [43]

Naturally it would be as equally unfair to judge ALL Poles by the standards of semi - educated mígrant laborers as it would to judge ALL Dutch by soccer hooligans and vacationers to Grand Canaria, often getting rip-roaring drunk, then trashing hotel rooms etc. along with other fun stuff LOL English?? Wonder how many of those beauties would ever think to speak a word of Spanish:)

Polonia / Behaviour of Polish migrant workers in the Netherlands [43]

Schaapje, merely wondering as to how you personally would rate the attempts of those Poles to learn Dutch. Surely it's easier to converse comprehensibly in your native language:-)

News / How do Poles feel about Biden? [59]

Duda's rightist style is clearly at odds with Biden's freewheeling liberalism. Could you imagine Bernie and Pan Andrzej, even if his grandfolks were from Poland? :-)

News / How do Poles feel about Biden? [59]

I think that Biden will be far less toxic in international relations than Trump.

News / How do Poles feel about Biden? [59]

Biden's "ignorance" about matters European could in the end be a blessing in disguise, providing him the opportunity to learn, as we;llas listen. Joe knows people. The reason Trump doesn't know people is because he's always got his big yap open, and brother, look out!

News / How do Poles feel about Biden? [59]

I see...I think. So then you guys want to see a return to (monkey)business as usual, is that it? Hmm, all very telling.

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

I think though that the '68ers were frankly more critical of Israel than of the Jewish people themselves!
As with many unthinking Leftists if that era, they confused Israel's fight for basic survival with some sort of intrinsically Faschist agenda, supporting unbridled military action.

Sure Israel beat the Palestinians' behinds during the Yom Kippur War. It was simply the age-old struggle of "kill or be killed".
Israelis aren't saints, folks, not even close:-)

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Perhaps the defective articles "the", "a" in Polish, as in Russian, reflect a perceptual difference in the way certain Slavic
languages view the world.

Hey again, gang! Just wondering whether ways of referring to people in the Polish vs. the English - language press constitute a cultural difference. For example, in our local journal, "..Jedna lokatorka, pani TTeresa mowila..", as compared wwith an American paper, "One tenant, Therera Hartley, said.." and so forth

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Spot on!

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

True though.
He was in point of fact a slave of the Romans, taken to Ireland as an adult.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Quite right, Johnny!
For those with a death wish, I dare 'em to walk into any Irish pub, anywhere in the world, proclaiming, "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, SAINT PADDY WAS AN ENGLISHMAN!"

lol

Language / What were the first Polish words and phrases you have learned? [63]

It only became socially common, except of course among the senior set, from around the early '70's on down:-)

Everyone, please stick to the topic of the thread

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Still, just hoist a few frosties and enjoy the day!
Slante:-)

Language / What were the first Polish words and phrases you have learned? [63]

As of the mid- to late '00, "kurwa" 's still used.
Recently rented a movie from '12 or so, and the word was used a fair bit.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

I hereby second the motion:-)
ST PADRAIG GO BRAGH!!

History / Quotes of Polish or German kings, generals [41]

"Ab nach Kassel!"

Almost forgot about that. Frederick The Great, if I'm not mistaken.

Language / The most important phrases when traveling to Poland [24]

Yet many of the above have been ever so quickly replaced by websites, chances are nowadays, to the question "Ile kosztuja dwa bilety do Warszawy?", the random railway official would snap, "Zobaczij Pan(i) on-line!!"

:-)

Language / What were the first Polish words and phrases you have learned? [63]

Especially these days: )