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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂
Last Post: 21 hrs ago
Threads: Total: 45 / Live: 31 / Archived: 14
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From: New York, USA
Speaks Polish?: tak
Interests: podrozy, rozrywki, sport

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Lyzko   
17 Oct 2017
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

@Wulkan, one converts from a religion to another, one adopts an alphabet to fit the prevailing need:-)

@DominicB, you're correct. Poland though remained far more Western in her Christianity than either Greece or Russia, but for a variety of other reasons.
Lyzko   
17 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

As with the Trump upset "victory" here in the US, I feel simply that the advent of a new, emboldened rightist agenda nowadays, from Denmark to Russia, reflects a long smoldering empathy fatigue among an electorate gradually fed up to the gills with the problems of the disenfranchised in society. They want to finally, once and for all disconnect themselves from the problems in the human condition with which they'd somehow been putting up for thousands of years, and now, the far right has come back...once again on a new broomstick, catering to the impatient, defiant, yet passively demanding Millenials. They just want to relax and enjoy life! LOL

I ought to have seen it coming some time ago, in the early '90's in fact, when a New York TImes article appeared, "Even G_d Needs a Vacation", concerning the growing trend among even seasoned clergy of all faiths to shut down their cell phones, beepers etc. and stop fielding calls from those whom they considered "problem parishioners".

Pretty ghastly stuff.
Lyzko   
16 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Merged:

Curious as to whether Kurz' victory will embolden European Ultra Right



Just wondering what members think about Austria's Peoples' Party and Sebastian Kurz as Chancellor. How it affect Germany, Hungary, and Poland?
Lyzko   
15 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

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How Will Kurz' Victory in Austria embolden Far Rightists in Germany, Hungary, and Poland?



As Sebastian Kurz seems poised to become Austria's Chancellor in the biggest right swing upset in that country since the end of WWII, I'm curious as to how this will affect people like Alexander Gauland, Orban Viktor or Poland's PiS leaders.

Any thoughts on the subject?
Lyzko   
15 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

If Kurz is victorious, I wonder how his victory on the heels of last year's defeat to Van der Bellen will embolden Germany's AfD, Poland, and Hungary. Any thoughts?
Lyzko   
10 Oct 2017
History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

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Polish-American Historian Takes Issue With Goldhagen



A US historian has come out with a book contesting Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's assertion that gentile Poles were largely complicit in the mass murder of Poland's Jews!

Be interested in hearing the Forum's views on this matter.
Lyzko   
6 Oct 2017
Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]

Hungarian sounds to me, a native Anglophone, almost like steady, rhythmic chanting, intense and almost relentless:-) Quite intoxicating actually to listen to, especially the poetry.
Lyzko   
4 Oct 2017
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

If abortion is the only thing which will save the woman's life, then naturally, it should be permitted. Like collecting unemployment benefits and abusing the privilege, abortion too is a privilege, but not a right which the abortor should take lightly.

Why throw out the baby with the bathwater(no pun intendedLOL)?
Lyzko   
4 Oct 2017
Genealogy / Need some help with Bublitz family origin. [23]

There's the Jewish leader of Berlin, Ignaz Bubis, born in Poland but an immigrant to Germany as a youngster. Perhaps his name is related to your search.
Lyzko   
3 Oct 2017
Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]

"Fake" people??LOL I'm quite real, I assure you. As to the rest of your message, I merely take it for what it is worth....not terribly much.
Lyzko   
3 Oct 2017
Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]

@kaprys, you're clearly mistaking criticism for hostility, a typical psychological defense mechanism, if you're up on your Freud. Haven't you ever fought tooth and nail with your best friend, calling her every name in the book, only to make up several hours later after you both have cooled off a little?? 'Course you have!

So have I, so have most of us.

You and several others here only focus on the negative instead of the positive posts I've written about Polish food, music, science, and literature. Germany has a similarly noble tradition, and yet I too criticize their recent past. Does that mean I'm some Germanophobe, hell bent on their ruin??!

Use your head, for heaven's sake!!

@Baloghbacsi, I'd love to practice my Hungarian, if you are available. Legy szives irni: tarsape@gmail
Lyzko   
2 Oct 2017
Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]

@kaprys, I really don't understand how you can assert that I don't "like" Poles! You must be trolling, brain dead or somewhere in between. Because one criticizes someone or something is no reason to assume that they are necessarily hostile to it! This is fallacious reasoning. As far as my not speaking Polish, what was I posting you in private, Turkish, Spanish..???! lol

@Baloghbacsi, many Slavs have a surface understanding of other related languages in the Slavonic group. This though doesn't mean that, say, a Pole automatically understands Slovak, Russian or Czech, for instance, without having at least studied those languages. Often, related languages are NOT mutually intelligible.
Lyzko   
1 Oct 2017
Language / How well do Polish people understand Slovak? [88]

Baloghbacsi,

I too have made inroads in my Hungarian. I knew a Pole who speaks fluent Hungarian, but he refused to speak it with me, preferring to "impress" me with his broken English, which at the time, I was way too polite to either correct or even comment on:-) Eventually, he gave in and we spoke Polish together, a relief for me, as well as frankly, relaxation for him.

I can read Hungarian better than I either write or speak it, unfortunately. NAGYON SZEP A NYELV!!
Lyzko   
18 Sep 2017
Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

To quote the great Claude Rains in the title role, addressing Bette Davis from the movie "Mr. Skeffington"(1941), "A woman is beautiful, so long as she is loved."

:-)
Lyzko   
10 Sep 2017
Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]

For the umpteenth time, Poles, much as with many Northern Europeans, can superficially tend to look serious and focused in repose. This smiling vacuously at complete strangers is as unnatural for Poles as it is considered somehow "friendly" here in large areas of the rural US.

Thing is, people, just because an American may appear "friendLY" in no way means that they are being your "FRIEND"!! What we often term "friends", Europeans traditionally would simply call "acquaintances":-)
Lyzko   
9 Sep 2017
Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]

Spaniards, Southern French, Greeks, and Italians give the surface impression of being more happy-go-lucky, more prone to break out into a smile or a spontaneous show of joy than perhaps one's initiial glance at Swedes, Dutchmen, the English, Germans and Poles.

Then again, it's all a matter of American expectations as well as the historical development of countries such as Poland, Germany etc.
Lyzko   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]

It isn't! All I'm saying is that I can remember quite well Polish supers in New York apt. buildings as a teenager, and most were middle-aged men with bad attitudes and sour pusses because they were frequently taking their orders from minority tenants (the late 70's remember and affirmative action for women, blacks, Hispanics etc.) who had far less education than they, but were literally forced to work at some job, and being by luck somewhat dextrous as well as tough looking, were able to bribe their way into a job they could hold onto for life without working too hard. Meager salary at the time compared with now, but plenty of sick days and a modicum of job security.

Once, our Polish super had a wee bit too much to drink on New Year's Eve and made a slur in front of our African-American neighbor. She complained blue murder, but the super barely got a slap on the wrist.

A double-edged sword now, isn't it?
Lyzko   
7 Sep 2017
Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]

Ahem, someone looks for work as either an engineer, teacher, doctor or lawyer, yet is told nearly every step of the way, "THERE'S A GLUT IN YOUR FIELD, DUDE!! LOOK ELSEWHERE AND DEAL WITH IT!", duh- I think that's sort of a no-brainer that it may be time to pull up stakes and GO!!! Yeah, TheOther, that's what I call being forced to leave:-)

As to the rest of your statement in the second paragraph of your post, I'd have to agree 100%, having lived for a spell in Austria, Germany, and even more briefly, in The Netherlands. Poles too generally have little to any pretense about their immediate wishes, one reason perhaps why they can often come across to us as appearing somewhat "rough around the edges". Like the Israelis in fact, Polish people in their body language often seem to be saying,"If something's clearly wrong, why waste valuable time being polite about it? Simply eliminate the problem and set things right, that's all. Offend the other person's thin skin??

Too f*****k bad!!"

Not a difficult to understand position. It doesn't though take into account foreign diets which may or may not lead to diabetes etc., conditions which make many middle-aged American women, for instance, exceptionally thin-skinned. Perhaps in Poland, the latter is far less of an issue, add to that, in such a relatively homogeneous country, everyone probably has similar problems and so knows how to deal with them.