Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Americans from the '40's and earlier spoke an English closer in certain ways to
British English.

My parents were rather older when I was born.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

You're missing the point here, Rich!

Native Americans are the only true Americans,
as all others were by definition immigrants to this country.
After all, when everyone from Columbus to Miles Standish
first landed on our shores, it was the aboriginal inhabitants of
the American mainland who were there to greet them.

Europe as well as much of Asia, e.g China or Japan, have a far different
history, that of a far more historically homogeneous ethnicity than
the US.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

"Hyphen-free" would then mean anyone of Native American extraction,
since the so-called "Indians" arrived on this continent before anybody else....
including the Vikings, Celts or any white Europeans!!

A "black widow" is indeed a variety of poisonous spider.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

@Rich,
"Have you a better one?" is British English!
We Yanks tend to use the modal auxilliary "Do + pronoun",
where as the Brits mostly forego this usage:

"Have you some change?" vs. "Do you have some change?"
etc.

Both are technically correct. Cf. German from Germany vs. Austrian or Swiss High German. etc.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Please define "Americans" for us, Rich!
Am dying to hear your answer.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

A parasite is often a convenient label for someone or ones who
honestly need help and the deserved assistance that comes from providing
basic, human services for all citizens worthy of such assistance.

A few scammers out there, as with a few rotten apples, shouldn't be allowed
to destroy the entire crop, should it!

Off-Topic / Random game admin, calling someone a 'Na**' is totally fine on online? [9]

Being uncritically pro-Nazi = being anti-people...PERIOD!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Speech may be free, however the violence which it could incite, isn't and should
indeed be punished swiftly and surely!

For this very reason, the FRG to this day doesn't allow for jokes about the Nazi period,
either in public, in open forum or in print.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Protecting the rights of any retard who speaks whatever gibberish is on their mind is
ok by me. Merely so long as we acknowledge it for that it really is.......GARBAGE!

News / Trump and Nawrocki [23]

Who??!
Educated American native speakers, that's who!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Idiocy remains protected by the Constitution.

News / Trump and Nawrocki [23]

'Still a darned sight better than your NorwegianLOL

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Quit playing dumb, RIch!
We're tired of your trolling.
Only a delusional person could take you seriously.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

I agree here with Feniks!

@Ironside, have you a better one?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

@Rich,
Anyone who honestly "admires" Hitler is either plain mentally ill or is
advertising for mere shock value, nothing else!

Study / English or German speaking school in Poznan [4]

Right on, Ron2!

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

Right on, mate! Good catch:-)
Also known of several Sterns who are/weren't Jewish.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

And I'll betcha none of them were Jewish either, isn't that right?
Off topic here, but bear in mind as well that the famous Christian Goldberg of
Bach's Goldberg Variations was not Jewish, despite a family name which
today in the US is probably always Jewish!

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

Thanks for the update, jon!
You're may be right. Once had an ESL student from Northern Germany,
a young lady whose family name was Oppermann and was most
decidely not Jewish.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

@Ironside,
Fools rarely admit that they are. You seem no exception.
@jon,
Jewish perhaps? Maybe short for "Dorot" (kolenia).

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

The Nazis got their butts kicked royally by dint of Allied efforts....and I say BULLY!!!

News / War propaganda - are we really THAT retarded? [28]

There's no such thing as purely "objective" journalism!
My favorite saying about the masthead of the New York Times is,
"All the news that fits, we print"LOL

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]

Rich is simply being his usual sarcastic self!

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

It's still a damned sight better than yours!

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

I see.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

How typical that the only Polish you'll admit to understanding is a low-class
vulgarism:-)

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]

Warsaw, GERMANY???
Sure you're not smokin' the funny stuff?

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]

Rich is angry with himself and so he hates Polish because it reminds him of his roots, plain and simple!

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

Zupelnie zgodze sie, Torq!

Great poets, musicians, and artists (including of course film makers) are the life blood
of any civilzation, cultural guardians of the national consciousness. To my mind, one of
modern Poland's greatest poets is Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz.

"Przez caly bialy dzionek czekam,
Az stanie wieczor wiencu gwiazd..."

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

HA!, Look who's talking lol