Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


"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!


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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czapiewice

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [871]

Thanks...

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [871]

Really???

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [871]

What is Wlosi? And Wegrzy?

...the rest I can decipher I think..

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [871]

Thanks...

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [871]

What is "Zydzi" ???

History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]


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


Why dropping in the first place and not changing now what's wrong?

History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]


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...


I never said it will happen overnight...it will take generations, I agree.

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! :)

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...

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!)

History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

Yeah...and reading the thread topic I better walk out now....:)

History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]


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...

History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

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


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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!

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


Now with four we need a hymn, a constitution and a uniform! :)

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!

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


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...

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


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

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


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Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


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! :(


With german it's the same...

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


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

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...

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


But these family surnames are so much older than anything "Kraut", or "Hitlerite"...

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Hmmm....doubtfull...just google this name:
google.com/search?hl=en&q=Niemczura&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

It seems to be an international quite wide spread surname...
A somewhat unlogical development if that would had be seen as a nick.
Family names are seldom derogatory nicknames given by enemies! :)

(Or they just forgot to tell them...)

Food / Polish Milk Soup [72]


Interesting history

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milchsuppe

Milk soup was used in the first Kappeler war. There it was eaten in 1529 as a conciliation meal.
The reformed citizen of Zurich gave the bread and the catholic Swiss gave the milk.

:)
marions-kochbuch.de/rezept/1357.htm

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

I never knew the tiny "the" is such a huge problem in your corner, what a funny people!

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

It seems a serious discussion is beyond your means, how disappointing!

*takes coat*

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

Where do I quote myself?

And yes, I love to eat fish too and I dare to say that Germany does much more for clean waters than Ukraine!
Do you even have a green party?


Oh puuuuleeeeeeze!


Then make up your mind...either a second Ribbentrop-Molotov pact or help.
Believe me...we are not happy to pay for Ukrainians duties. And of course we do it "for our own sake". We need functioning pipelines! We need the gas!!!

Ukraine can't be trusted with either the delivery nor the maintaining of the needed infrastructure...
Here you have a reason why we need alternatives first hand!

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


That wasn't my "smart" idea to call it a "gas war" or to state the Ukraine "won" it...


Germany is a world leader in green, environmental friendly politics and technology for decades now! Ukraine is so not!
When you use arguments then please be honest at least and don't pretend you give a shit about the baltic see and her fish!


There wouldn't be no need to search for other ways if the Ukraine would be a reliable partner...
For western Europeans (not only Germans!) it looks like countries like Ukraine are the "choke" on Europe, unreliable disrupting the gas deliveries either because of neglect of the pipelines or bad will due differences with Russia or no money to pay for their own gas hence stealing from the gas bought by western Europe etc.etc.etc, not Russia, sorry...

Oh and Nathan...Germany isn't your enemy!
Just recently the EU agreed to help to renovate the ukrainian pipelines...something the Ukraine should do by herself but can't.
2.5 Bln $ EU money, lot's of it german money and through german support!
Think about it....