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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂
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From: New York, USA
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Lyzko   
4 Apr 2019
History / Unforgettable quotes about Poland and Poles from Polish and world`s history and culture [99]

True what you said about Miller's exposure to Polish people, but as a writer especially, he was probably prone to outrageous statements! Writers typically like to be known by their colorful utterance, not to mention their behavior away from the typewriter. Just look for example at literati as different in temperment as Alexander Wolcott, Ernest Hemingway or John O'Hara.

The first enjoyed shocking through scandalously anti-Semitic tirades, the second with adventurous exploits, and the latter of the three by sometimes "mock" threatening visitors whom he spied coming up the walkway to his house by aiming a shotgun in their direction, sometimes even firing it in the air, delighted by the startling effect it could have on his "guests".

Shock value was Miller's stock in trade.

Incidentally, he identified his nationality as American, but his ethnicity as Jewish rather than Polish-:)
Lyzko   
3 Apr 2019
History / Unforgettable quotes about Poland and Poles from Polish and world`s history and culture [99]

Undoubtedly, his exposure to Polish people, quite apart from the language, was limited to those Polish immigrants whom he encountered while living in Chicago!

Often, Americans can get an unfavorable impression of certain groups based usually on the class of people who are representative of that society here in the US, normally not from the upper eschelons.
Lyzko   
1 Apr 2019
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Our idioms, particularly those using phrasal verbs, e.g "get IN", "get OVER", "get BY", with all their seemingly endless figurative nuances, are probably as consternating for native Polish-born English learners such as yourself in much the same way as your verbal aspects like "pisac", "POpisac", "pisYWAC", "ROZpisywac" etc. are for us foreigners!
Lyzko   
27 Mar 2019
Travel / Are Polish people as unfriendly as Slovaks? [84]

As I posted via "private message" some while ago, both Czech and Polish have enough false friends between them to choke a horseLOL
Needless to reiterate, some can be quite embarrassing.
Lyzko   
27 Mar 2019
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

Again respectfully, it all depends on the crowd with which you hang along with their level of culture:-)
Lyzko   
25 Mar 2019
Travel / Are Polish people as unfriendly as Slovaks? [84]

Yes, perhaps. Then again, who is to say whether or not those represent the up-and-coming majority of today's young Poles?
I do spend a lot of time in Greenpoint discos, thus I speak from experience.