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Bratwurst Boy   
2 Aug 2009
Travel / Castles and Palaces in Poland (with pictures) [155]

Not the castle...it was build by the Order as "Marienburg".

The Poles can't stand any reminders of their german past and renamed it to "Malbork".
They did alot of renaming after '18 and '45.

Now I am confused...who built it?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbork

Founded in the 13th century by the Teutonic Knights, the town is noted for the Gothic Marienburg Castle, one of the most striking in Europe.

yes, after the tutons occupied Malbork they renamed it

ROFL, THEY BUILD MARIENBURG!

...he town was built in Prussia around the fortress Ordensburg Marienburg which was founded in 1274 on the east bank of the river Nogat by the Teutonic Knights....

Sometimes I get the impression that when one takes out the polish things which are in core german there would be not much left...

...The town of Marienburg grew in the vicinity of the castle. The river Nogat and flat terrain allowed easy access for barges a hundred kilometers from the sea. During Prussia's government by the Teutonic Knights, they collected tolls on river traffic and imposed a monopoly of the amber trade.
The town later became a member of the Hanseatic League, and many Hanseatic meetings were held there...

The Hanse...another german thing...
Bratwurst Boy   
2 Aug 2009
Travel / Castles and Palaces in Poland (with pictures) [155]

And a world heritage site

Build in Prussia by the Teutonic order...should be a german world heritage site! :)

(But then, the other world heritage site, the city of Thorn, is from the Teutonic Order too...not so bad for a warrior order...)
Bratwurst Boy   
21 Jul 2009
News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]

Yeah...I have huge hopes!
It will take some years but all great things started with a vision, didn't they! And now that the german gov and the big guns from the industry got behind it it MUST work!
Bratwurst Boy   
9 Jul 2009
Life / Poles are not racist [873]

The Africans, except for Egyptians and similar civilizations, if there were any, weren't as ambitious.

Those Africans who left to conquer the world absolutely were! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
12 Jun 2009
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Bergman is obviosuly of German or Yiddish origin

"Bergmann" is German and stems from the profession of a miner, a man who works in the Berg (mountain).
"Bergman" is the anglicized version.

Often a german name ending of -mann became a -man outside of Germany, that doesn't mean it's jewish!

could anyone tell me what the meaning of the surname von Czapiewski
means and where it come from

The "von" suggests german/prussian nobility.
The "Czapiewski" suggests the home of your family the moment they became nobility.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czapiewice
Bratwurst Boy   
5 May 2009
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

Nations in one form or another existed for as long as recorded history, before that there were tribes

Of course, but I mean nation states as we know them and are used to.

personally i believe that EU as an idea will be dropped soon for decades, maybe even a century and picked up by a different generation with much more success.

Why dropping in the first place and not changing now what's wrong?
Bratwurst Boy   
4 May 2009
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

No its not, we're wearing pants that are too big for us, we're all still very much in love with nations, middle Germany is your example.

Nations are very new...our ancestors roamed Europe freely, no need for borders. THAT is the old european way, not nation states!
Most of the problems/wars/all around b*itching and hate stem from borders...just read around PF...it's often all about borders...

one way or the other the idea of unified Europe of regions is a sound one but its a few generations ahead of our monkey mentality right now.

I never said it will happen overnight...it will take generations, I agree.
Bratwurst Boy   
4 May 2009
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

Interesting attitude Sokrates! :)

But it's the natural way of things. It's nothing new actually but rather going back to normalcy for the Europeans.
Nationstates are relatively new and just a blip on the radar of history and time and will slowly go out of fashion again (much to slow for our generation though....)

But it WILL happen! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 May 2009
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

I don't believe Kashubians are ethnic Germans....just another slavic tribe like the Sorbs in Germany.
Some of them became germanized during the centuries (as ethnic Poles too) and some became polonized.
The usual history of many people in this region....
Should they have their own nation? Such a thing would not be viable (as with the Sorbs).
But in a future Europe of Regions the Kashubians surely have their place...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 May 2009
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

Not the eastern Germans per se but often those Germans who had to leave what became Poland and had to resettle across the new smaller Germany between foreign towns and communities as they spoke other dialects, had other customs, other dishes etc.

It took awhile for them to grow new roots...but most of them never forgot about the "alte Heimat".
(Actually now with the third generation the interest is as big as never before...the what is now often called eastern Germany is called by them "middle" Germany!)
Bratwurst Boy   
4 May 2009
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

Some Kashubs had different opinions :

Of course they had...it wasn't Kashubians (mostly) who killed Poles later!
They weren't the ones you should have tried to clear things up with before...
Bratwurst Boy   
4 May 2009
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

They wouldn't if the borders had stayed as they were!

Orphans Of Versailles: The Germans in Western Poland

amazon.com/Orphans-Versailles-Germans-Western-1918-1939/dp/0813118034
Bratwurst Boy   
4 May 2009
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

Yeah well...Danzigers greeted the german Wehrmacht with flowers too as Hitler brought them back into the Reich! :)

National pride here too!
Bratwurst Boy   
11 Apr 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Genau!

As in "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän"

Which gender? Easy... "....kapitän" is male:
"DER Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän"

But what about

"Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmütze"?

also easy because "...mütze" is female:
"DIE Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmütze"

but the diminuitive form would mean

"DAS Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmützchen"

See!
Bratwurst Boy   
11 Apr 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

But Hausmeerschweinchen is umlautless, so I wouldn't know if it's masculine, feminine or neuter.

Well...it has a "chen" and you don't know if it's a boy or a girl so using neuter is a good guess!

If you like to speak about an explicit male guinea pig you would say:
"Das männliche Meerschweinchen"

(In german the name of a male pig is "Eber"...so you could try "Der Meereber (fully male)"...but I'm not so sure about that...

It's also DAS Merkelchen...you know? Even as Mrs. Merkel is a female...
Bratwurst Boy   
11 Apr 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Thus all words ending with umlaut + chen are neuter.

Coool!

He is so right:

DAS Stühl-chen
DAS Windel-chen
DAS Hünd-chen
DAS Mäd-chen
DAS Jüngel-chen (diminuitive boy)
DAS Flugzeug-chen (okay...I made this one up)

DAS Bratwürst-chen
Bratwurst Boy   
11 Apr 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Is that madchen that's neuter? Where's the logic in that?

crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html

Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book.

Bratwurst Boy   
11 Apr 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

The examples you gave are all the same gender as they would be in Polish! (Shock! Horror!)

We have definitely more vowels!
For me the lack of it would make it a harder language as I would never have the chance to speak it is it would be right...that would suck! :(

Having said that, I have read about the word dziewczę, meaning girl.

With german it's the same...
Bratwurst Boy   
11 Apr 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

BB, how easily can you tell the gender of a noun in German? I

DER Mann (man) - male

DIE Frau (woman) - female

DAS Kind (child) - neuter (because we do not know yet what it will be)

See? All easy and logical! :)

Okay...but I have no idea why it is

DER Junge (boy) male

but

DAS Mädchen (girl) neuter
Bratwurst Boy   
9 Apr 2009
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

That is totally different!

As the surnames became fashion several centuries back the actual profession like baker or cartwright played a big role also often the place of living or outstanding characteristics like height and such.

But denigrating nicknames don't make logical family surnames because those families most likely already had proper surnames as they came into contact with a hostile, foreign population.

Also when one looks at the link about the "Niemczuras" in the US they seem to be polish families, not german ones...