Work / Work as English proofreader in Poland [19]

Yup, makes sense too, delph! However niche markets are typically hard to fill as it is, no?

Text editing was my stock in trade, along with translation, for nearly fifteen years and many firms prefer in-house to freelance nowadays. In the '90's it was a

different world aka economy:-)

Work / Work as English proofreader in Poland [19]

Sound advice! Seems right on the money to me.

The earnings can indeed be very high, but the trick is finding a publishing outfit WILLING to pay for quality!

Work / Work as English proofreader in Poland [19]

I figure the logical follow-up question would be, why would one even need to look for work as an English proofreader in Poland? Translator/interpreter I can well

understand, but foreign-language publications I'd imagine would be so highly specialized that a native English speaker couldn't dream of being hired as they'd be deemed too expensive.

Most likely, the major publishing firms in, say, Warsaw, Poznan, Krakow, would use a run-of-the-mill Pole off the streets who went beyond lyceum English and took some courses at university, possibly spending their holidays in the UK:-)

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Frankly, often what passes in my experience for "rudeness" is merely a form of continental European directness, quite common everywhere, not solely in Poland.
While I'll grant you, it's often shortsighted and negative, as dolno said, no false smiles here, typical also for neighboring non-Slavic countries such as France and Germany! If somebody's having a grumpy day, people typically won't mask it behind meaningless small talk as we do here in the States or in England.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Why not join the staff of >Der Stuermer<. Dirk. Sure ol' Streicher would've been glad to have ya!

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

It's all relative anyhow, folks, so lighten up! What the Jews and Arabs consider proper practice, European gentiles do not. Neither is more "right" than the other, they're merely different.

It's rather like asking as to which language is "better", French or Russian. It makes no sense, because language, as with religious practice, has no moral imperative.

It is what it is, whatever it is:-)

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

"Mutilation" implies willful damage done, either to the infant or to the mother. In the present instance, no such damage has been done:-)

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Circumcision, both among Jews and Arabs, is a logical a practice as any, including allowing the male foreskin to remain.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Johnny, hate to burst your bubble of imperturbability once again, but you never had much to say about the subject anyway. Now. you'll have even lessLOL

Furthermore, how is it the Jews' fault for trying to do what is sane and imminently rational?

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Certainly I don't deny that the reasons for circumcision were religious. Eventually though that all changed.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

These days, many male infants are circumcised, not only Jewish:-)

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Spilling seed is traditionally frowned upon by all organized (as well I'm sure by some disorganized) religion, yet the Allmighty is willing to wink his eye on that one.

On murder, I'm not so sure:-) Ever heard of the good ol' Hail Mary Pass?
LOL

History / Did NATO help in retrival of heads of Poland's King Władysław III and Zawisza Czarny [16]

Pack it in, man, give it a rest already!

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Pilsudski is nonetheless admired by many Jews, for some reason.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Similar explanation for kashruth!

In those times, eating pork or shellfish could indeed bring certain death. It was then explained as such for religious reasons.
Today however, such danger has largely passed, yet orthodox or observant Jews resolutely continue to keep kosher:-)

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Dmowski though, including Paderewski while acting premier, was known to be both an ultra-nationalist as well as an anti-Semite. Lest we forget!

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Of course it was rationalized as a religious reason, but again, the ancient Israelites weren't dumb and realized that there were also clearly hygienic benefits to circumcision.

History / Did NATO help in retrival of heads of Poland's King Władysław III and Zawisza Czarny [16]

Why open old wounds

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

The Bolshies did though try to spread their influence throughout Europe, among other countries, England.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Circumcision was meant historically as a means of keeping the male organ clean from any number of impurities in the body, much as keeping kosher according to kashruth, was an early attempt by the ancient Hebrews of an early health code.

Don't let's blame the Jews merely for following one of the basic tenets of their faith. Having said that, I don't believe one can be a "bad Jew" by being a basically "good" person aka a "mensch", albeit not subscribing to often outdated dietary restrictions, particularly nowadays that the danger's passed and eating pork is no longer necessarily fatal, same for shell fish. I know many Catholics who typically will swear like a sailor on Sunday, criticize the Pope roundly, eat beef on Fridays and are still good people, even if in the eyes of the Church, they are considered lapsed Catholics-)

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Gotta admit though, Bobko, the broadness of your thread question does lend itself conveniently to a bit of digression at best.

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Well, Western Civilization did move upward from South to North rather than the opposite way:-)
While the ancients in the Fertile Crescent, for example, were building great, impressive nearly full-service metopoli for their time, Mesopotamia etc. you Northern Europeans were often still sitting around in loin cloth, eating mead, and throwing bones at one another.LOL

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Ironside,

YOU just slow down! I was merely responding to Maf's post:-)

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

The European Enlightenment as promulgated by Lessing, Voltaire, Moses Mendelssohn, also Goethe, was the attempt to instill the values of democracy wedded to a respect for scientific research as a means to complement, not necessarily replace, traditional Christian teachings:-)

In Germany however, as well all know too well, owing to the peculiar nature of her early deviation from Occidental Christianity, back to pre-Christian paganism in many cases (later seized upon for all it was worth by Hitler and the Nazis), the Enlightenment essentially withered on the vine, never quite taking root as was hoped by her proponents, thus rejecting Judeo-Christian values of love/respect one's neighbor, "the meek shall inherit the earth", opting instead for perverted Darwinism and to put it bluntly, caveman tactics and rampant anti-intellectualism!

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Szczelecki,

Learn English properly before you decide to post:-)

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Perhaps you don't grasp the meaning of the the word "Westernized", Szczelecki! The West or "Zachod" is the place from which Poland adopted much of what is currently considered Polish and the Poles always have seen themselves, almost as much as the Czech people, as a bridge between East and West.

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Agreed. Poland certainly "Westernized" far more readily than Russia, her adaptation of the Latin over the Cyrillic alphabet, Roman Catholicism as opposed to Russian Orthodoxy, to name several examples.

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Russia nearly did absorb most of her neighbors, much as "Czar Vladimir" is trying to do same these days.

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Don't underestimate the power either of the US army or the British navy at that time. Likely the Russians wouldn't have had a prayer:-)

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

True, although my initial surmise would be that Russia might well have "gobbled up", so to speak, as much Polish territory as she could, therein reducing Poland's

geographic size, not to mention any possible geopolitical influence she might either have had or towards which she could have hoped to aspire.

Hitler would have attacked Poland, not matter what!