UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

Yiddish contains approx. at last count, some 90% medaeval, Upper German base vocabulary,
followed by at least 70% Hebrew, finally, about 40-50% Polish loan word stock!

Upon their arrival in the New World towards the close of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century,
bastardized English words became incorporated into spoken Yiddish.

At least, this is my understanding based on Leo Rosten, Uriel Weinreich, along with other professional
Yiddishists or Yiddish mavens:-)

Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

What do you mean exactly, Alien?

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

To which "he" are you referring?

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

A "Dick" as a title is also older US-slang for a detective!

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

This makes them by your definition Polish-American.

UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

Perhaps why Polish uses the English word for the same product.

Po polsku / Wojna między płciami - To nonsens! [9]

Ha-ha, swietne, Alien!! Usmieje sie:-)

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

My point precisely, Rich!
Glad we're [finally] on the same homepageLOL

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

Over foreignization though will strain hospitality even among the most generous of nations,
just think of Ireland having to deal with that boatload of Romanians some years back!
Irish eyes ain't smilin' no more(:-

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [221]

I'd have to go along with that.

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

Wouldn't mind zooming with some of the PF members
I've been corresponding with over the years. I'm quite serious.
Am sure that folks such as Rich's, Jimmy's or Ironside's bark is
far worse than their bite!

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [221]

@B.B., got news for ya, fella,
it's happening in a number of German cities
and has for a while, e.g. Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hanau etc...

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [221]

By the way, New York just elected a mayor, supported largely by liberal Jews,
who has openly questioned Israel's right to exist!!
Go figure, you people.

Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Tak!! "Bzdura!" = "Quatsch!" pr. "MATURA BZDURA!" = ABITUR SO EIN QUATSCH!

Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Tak, tak, naturalnie!! Dziekuje, gumi:-) To jak po niemiecku "Quatsch", w Austrii "Bloedsinn".

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

....aka Globish.

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

Oh, of the latter I'm well aware! :-)
As far as such tricky vowel distinctions like those you mentioned,
I honestly can't think of a single language learner group I've taught in
over thirty years of ESL instruction who can distinguish "bother"/"father",
"mother"/"moth" etc. Then again, I was teaching exclusively US English.

Certain consonantal combinations as well can drive English learners to distraction
and by no means exclusively the Poles.

Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Ha-Ha, Panie Rysku!!

Wiec Rozewicz, Tuwim, Kozinski, itd..... NIE sa Polakami??!
Grekami sa?

To jest glupstwo!

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

Younger, university educated Poles tend naturally to have more British-style accents in English than much older,
less educated Poles!

Same all over. While American vocabulary is becoming more common throughout Europe, Europeans still learn
the RP spoken on the BBC rather than American pronunciation.

Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Co to jest "prawdziwych Polakow", Alien?
Czy to znaczy " dla urodzonych Polakow"??
Czy to znaczy dla zagranicznych Polakow?
Ciekawy jestem.
:-)

News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

How right you are, Milo! Never underestimate the Slavic tiger:-)

UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

The Poles a joke?? Sounds to me like you're in the wrong shop there, buster!

UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

At long last!!
Can't tell youse how long New York's been broadcasting Telemundo Uno
to assist the city's often monolingual Hispanic population:-)

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

??? What are you talking about, Bobko?

Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [220]

Once again, this was the '70's and Italy in general was far less affluent than it is today!
However like Poland, Italy was simply dogged by scandal at that time, Craxi and all those guys.

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]

Yes and no, WarSore!
Apparently for years now, Israeli school groups are invited to visit Krakow's Jewish Quarter,
paid for by the Polish gov't:-)

There probably are more native-born Polish Jews living in Poland, even if under
an assumed identity, than in Germany. As you know, Poland's Jews were historically
far less assimilated than in Germany.

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]

Most enlightening, Maf! Thanks,
Am always willing to learn:-)

Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [220]

Didn't take any public transportation when last in Poland during the '90's,
however surely it couldn't be any worse than in Rome during the '70's.
Thought I'd keel over from the stench inside a packed bus in the summer
when I was on a teen tour. Apparently, the windows didn't open and Romans
didn't believe in deoderant!

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]

You're saying then that Catholicism in Poland is/was more of a shield against the onslaught of Communism
post war, than a religious conviction. Is this substantively correct?

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]

If anything, present-day Poland bends over backwards to accomodate Jewish people.
Whether it's a "police state" or not, I couldn't say as I never lived in Poland. My experiences
though with Polish people nowadays whom I've met throughout my life, suggest that Poland
remains an arch-Catholic Conservative country, but scarcely Nazi leaning.

Sounds frankly like rubbish to me.