Lyzko
6 Oct 2019
Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]
Well, here in the US, we know only from "deadbeat dads", never moms!
:-)
Well, here in the US, we know only from "deadbeat dads", never moms!
:-)
Lyzko
6 Oct 2019
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]
Should also be a thread about Americans speaking Polish. The story of President Carter's interpreter naturally back in around '77 comes to mind, when the poor fella translated Carter's words literally, "I wish to reach out to the people of Poland...", coming out on the other end as "I lust after the Polish people.....".
The chap's name was David Seymour, as I recall, from NYU, and believe you me, that time Polish President Gierek was not amused by the gaff!
Should also be a thread about Americans speaking Polish. The story of President Carter's interpreter naturally back in around '77 comes to mind, when the poor fella translated Carter's words literally, "I wish to reach out to the people of Poland...", coming out on the other end as "I lust after the Polish people.....".
The chap's name was David Seymour, as I recall, from NYU, and believe you me, that time Polish President Gierek was not amused by the gaff!
Lyzko
5 Oct 2019
Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]
My first Polish primer was called "PRACOWITA MATKA", from around the late sixties or so. Here, the units and readings stressed the tough, self-reliant, yet diligent Polish mother, always hard at work for her family, and of course, the State!
My first Polish primer was called "PRACOWITA MATKA", from around the late sixties or so. Here, the units and readings stressed the tough, self-reliant, yet diligent Polish mother, always hard at work for her family, and of course, the State!
Lyzko
5 Oct 2019
Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]
True. The Poles, particularly under Communism, had a reputation as workers, not shirkers!
Many a time I can recall during a period not all that long ago, when many of the local cleaning women were typically older Poles, that they were known to be exceptionally clean and with their nose to the grindstone.
True. The Poles, particularly under Communism, had a reputation as workers, not shirkers!
Many a time I can recall during a period not all that long ago, when many of the local cleaning women were typically older Poles, that they were known to be exceptionally clean and with their nose to the grindstone.
Lyzko
22 Sep 2019
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:-)
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:-)
Lyzko
19 Sep 2019
Lyzko
19 Sep 2019
Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]
In the Masur, if I'm not mistaken, is near to where "Noz w wodzie" was filmed.
In the Masur, if I'm not mistaken, is near to where "Noz w wodzie" was filmed.
Lyzko
18 Sep 2019
Lyzko
17 Sep 2019
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.
:-)
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.
:-)
Lyzko
16 Sep 2019
Lyzko
11 Sep 2019
History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [98]
Thanks for that, TheOther! I could always use a good laughLOL
Thanks for that, TheOther! I could always use a good laughLOL
Lyzko
11 Sep 2019
History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [98]
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:-)
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:-)
Lyzko
11 Sep 2019
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.
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.
Lyzko
11 Sep 2019
History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]
'Course not.
It's stuff like this that gives coups a bad name!
'Course not.
It's stuff like this that gives coups a bad name!
Lyzko
11 Sep 2019
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?"
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?"
Lyzko
11 Sep 2019
History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]
Who?? Those who were directly responsible for the theft, of course!
Who?? Those who were directly responsible for the theft, of course!
Lyzko
11 Sep 2019
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.
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.
Lyzko
10 Sep 2019
Lyzko
9 Sep 2019
Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [41]
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:-)
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:-)
Lyzko
9 Sep 2019
Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [41]
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:-)
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:-)
Lyzko
9 Sep 2019
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?
That then remains the fault of the Polish government. Why then should ordinary Poles be forced to suffer for state-sanctioned failures?
Lyzko
9 Sep 2019
Lyzko
9 Sep 2019
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!
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!
Lyzko
9 Sep 2019
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:-)
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:-)
Lyzko
7 Sep 2019
Lyzko
7 Sep 2019
History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]
Sto lat, B.B!
Na zdrowie, GenossenLOL
Sto lat, B.B!
Na zdrowie, GenossenLOL
Lyzko
6 Sep 2019
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?
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?
Lyzko
6 Sep 2019
Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [41]
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?
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?
Lyzko
6 Sep 2019
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.
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.
Lyzko
5 Sep 2019
Life / Poland vs Hungary for an expat? [41]
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.
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.