Lyzko
4 Nov 2016
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [201]
If there's barely any, then how can they be?
If there's barely any, then how can they be?
Lyzko
4 Nov 2016
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [201]
Tell us, Marsupial, d'you mates honestly think of the Aborigines as a threat to monoculturalism?? If anything at all, it's the other way round, don't you think?
:-)
Tell us, Marsupial, d'you mates honestly think of the Aborigines as a threat to monoculturalism?? If anything at all, it's the other way round, don't you think?
:-)
Lyzko
4 Nov 2016
Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [141]
Salaam alaykum to you as well!
I take it you mean "Greek" in the second line, as "geek" is something entirely different:-)
lol
Salaam alaykum to you as well!
I take it you mean "Greek" in the second line, as "geek" is something entirely different:-)
lol
Lyzko
4 Nov 2016
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [201]
Poland has traditionally been much more ethnically homogeneous as well as culturally insular as regards non-white, non-Christian influences in her society than most other European countries:-)
This is far from casting espursions on them, they're simply not as used to it, that's, all, and so all this unwanted "otherness" is hitting them like a ton of bricks!
Poland has traditionally been much more ethnically homogeneous as well as culturally insular as regards non-white, non-Christian influences in her society than most other European countries:-)
This is far from casting espursions on them, they're simply not as used to it, that's, all, and so all this unwanted "otherness" is hitting them like a ton of bricks!
Lyzko
4 Nov 2016
Classifieds / I am Thai and looking for a job in Poland (therapy relaxing or beauty massage) please recommend or any advice? [14]
No harder than Thai, most probably:-)LOL
Good for you!
No harder than Thai, most probably:-)LOL
Good for you!
Lyzko
2 Nov 2016
Classifieds / I am Thai and looking for a job in Poland (therapy relaxing or beauty massage) please recommend or any advice? [14]
Good luck in your pursuits! I presume you intend to learn Polish at some point, patpicha?
:-)
Good luck in your pursuits! I presume you intend to learn Polish at some point, patpicha?
:-)
Lyzko
1 Nov 2016
Language / "Czarny" vs. "Czerny", vs. "Charni" vs. "Cherni", etc. [21]
Stuff and nonsense, don't give it a second thought!
You wrought havoc on my word playLOL
Stuff and nonsense, don't give it a second thought!
You wrought havoc on my word playLOL
Lyzko
31 Oct 2016
Language / "Czarny" vs. "Czerny", vs. "Charni" vs. "Cherni", etc. [21]
Was that last line some sort of pun on the last name "Havoc" aka the well-known actress "June HaVOC" (nee "Hovick")?
:-))
Was that last line some sort of pun on the last name "Havoc" aka the well-known actress "June HaVOC" (nee "Hovick")?
:-))
Lyzko
31 Oct 2016
Language / "Czarny" vs. "Czerny", vs. "Charni" vs. "Cherni", etc. [21]
"Chiyerni" could sound Russian, actually, or Ukrainian with it's drawled "yiie-sound". Standard Polish vowels are always shorter and more clipped.
"Chiyerni" could sound Russian, actually, or Ukrainian with it's drawled "yiie-sound". Standard Polish vowels are always shorter and more clipped.
Lyzko
31 Oct 2016
Language / "Czarny" vs. "Czerny", vs. "Charni" vs. "Cherni", etc. [21]
Unless the family name might have been changed to "Czerny" from something else, the family name "Czerny" itself, is NOT Jewish:-) "CzernOWITZ" for instance, might well indeed be of Jewish lineage, though once more, even "-OWITZ" is not always an indication of Jewish origin. To be sure, "-WITZ" is in fact often of German/Prussian origin!
Unless the family name might have been changed to "Czerny" from something else, the family name "Czerny" itself, is NOT Jewish:-) "CzernOWITZ" for instance, might well indeed be of Jewish lineage, though once more, even "-OWITZ" is not always an indication of Jewish origin. To be sure, "-WITZ" is in fact often of German/Prussian origin!
Lyzko
31 Oct 2016
Language / "Czarny" vs. "Czerny", vs. "Charni" vs. "Cherni", etc. [21]
Possibly, although there has never been reason so assert that Karl Czerny was Jewish:-)
Just consulted Groves' Dictionary on line and sure enough, I must have misread the site (either that or it was previously in error, both more than likely), but it clearly states "Austrian pianist and musician of Czech origin."
))
Possibly, although there has never been reason so assert that Karl Czerny was Jewish:-)
Just consulted Groves' Dictionary on line and sure enough, I must have misread the site (either that or it was previously in error, both more than likely), but it clearly states "Austrian pianist and musician of Czech origin."
))
Lyzko
31 Oct 2016
Language / "Czarny" vs. "Czerny", vs. "Charni" vs. "Cherni", etc. [21]
"Czerny" as in the once famous composer of piano exercises Karl Czerny, known to untold generations of music students, is listed in Groves' Dictionary of Music as an Austrian pianist and teacher of Hungarian extraction:-)
Perhaps his forebearers were originally Polish?
"Czerny" as in the once famous composer of piano exercises Karl Czerny, known to untold generations of music students, is listed in Groves' Dictionary of Music as an Austrian pianist and teacher of Hungarian extraction:-)
Perhaps his forebearers were originally Polish?
Lyzko
29 Oct 2016
Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]
"My family has a diversified portfolio....."
Bully for you all! Only how about those out there who haven't??! This is why Trump is so dangerous and the late Ronald Reagan so pernicious; if things had been running smoothly with the advent of social security for decades, the retirees were getting their pensions as they should, some were stock market people, others not, but EVERYONE who paid into the system by dint of hard work etc. would in the end get their fair share of the pie!!
Well, if money's worth so little to the 99% and saving, the ideal way for prepare for old age, is no longer possible due to the rise of stagflation, social security is the ONLY alternative for those either retired, or forcible retired by a new-age system which favors the young and clueless, the socially empowered minority or the foreign investor, often through ill-gotten gains???!
Just bare in mind the word "gentrification" of a neighborhood means high-class incomes, low-class people aka the parvenu nouveau rich compared the preferable, cultured old money of yore:-))
"My family has a diversified portfolio....."
Bully for you all! Only how about those out there who haven't??! This is why Trump is so dangerous and the late Ronald Reagan so pernicious; if things had been running smoothly with the advent of social security for decades, the retirees were getting their pensions as they should, some were stock market people, others not, but EVERYONE who paid into the system by dint of hard work etc. would in the end get their fair share of the pie!!
Well, if money's worth so little to the 99% and saving, the ideal way for prepare for old age, is no longer possible due to the rise of stagflation, social security is the ONLY alternative for those either retired, or forcible retired by a new-age system which favors the young and clueless, the socially empowered minority or the foreign investor, often through ill-gotten gains???!
Just bare in mind the word "gentrification" of a neighborhood means high-class incomes, low-class people aka the parvenu nouveau rich compared the preferable, cultured old money of yore:-))
Lyzko
28 Oct 2016
Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]
You're referring here to the Black Market, no doubt. Throughout Eastern aka formerly Communist Europe, (much like present-day Italy) without bribery, "recommendations", all translating as "pull", the honest, amiable, decent, law-abiding, but unconnected, chap was dead meat, a lamb among wolves who were often ready, willing, and able to cut the other chap's throat while trying not to get blood on his own necktie!
Actually, this sounds like the post-Reaganist era right here in the US:-)
You're referring here to the Black Market, no doubt. Throughout Eastern aka formerly Communist Europe, (much like present-day Italy) without bribery, "recommendations", all translating as "pull", the honest, amiable, decent, law-abiding, but unconnected, chap was dead meat, a lamb among wolves who were often ready, willing, and able to cut the other chap's throat while trying not to get blood on his own necktie!
Actually, this sounds like the post-Reaganist era right here in the US:-)
Lyzko
27 Oct 2016
History / History behind Poland and Turkey's Relationship [118]
True. Erdogan claims he IS Turkey and that his opponents are the sworn enemies of Islam:-)
She certainly has swung farther to the right, hasn't she! And to think back to her first FEMALE prime minister some twenty years ago.
Times sure have changed!
True. Erdogan claims he IS Turkey and that his opponents are the sworn enemies of Islam:-)
She certainly has swung farther to the right, hasn't she! And to think back to her first FEMALE prime minister some twenty years ago.
Times sure have changed!
Lyzko
26 Oct 2016
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]
Regrettably, yes. However, when hearinig/reading the language of Tuwim, Mickiewicz or Iwaszkiewicz, what else is there? I've been smitten, hence spoiled forever:-)))
Regrettably, yes. However, when hearinig/reading the language of Tuwim, Mickiewicz or Iwaszkiewicz, what else is there? I've been smitten, hence spoiled forever:-)))
Lyzko
26 Oct 2016
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]
Always ask the question, "Do I want to sound like an illiterate in English, or do I want to sound like the educated person I (presumably) am in my own language?"
I know Polish "street slang" a bit, yet FAR prefer classical Polish:-)
Always ask the question, "Do I want to sound like an illiterate in English, or do I want to sound like the educated person I (presumably) am in my own language?"
I know Polish "street slang" a bit, yet FAR prefer classical Polish:-)
Lyzko
26 Oct 2016
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]
Not necessarily certain that learning such words is an improvement, any more than for me improving my Polish with expressions such as "pępek" or "upierd" etc.
:-)
Not necessarily certain that learning such words is an improvement, any more than for me improving my Polish with expressions such as "pępek" or "upierd" etc.
:-)
Lyzko
26 Oct 2016
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]
JohnnyReb, what you don't know (or care!!) about biology, the female anatomy or science in general could fill a tomeLOL
JohnnyReb, what you don't know (or care!!) about biology, the female anatomy or science in general could fill a tomeLOL
Lyzko
26 Oct 2016
Lyzko
26 Oct 2016
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]
Again, Johnny, you and yours continue to equate literate, erudite discourse with "femininity". Why? Is your kind so primitive and mentally underdeveloped it can't fight its way out of a paper bag without using its fists just like jungle creatures?
You say little for the male species, my friend:-)
Again, Johnny, you and yours continue to equate literate, erudite discourse with "femininity". Why? Is your kind so primitive and mentally underdeveloped it can't fight its way out of a paper bag without using its fists just like jungle creatures?
You say little for the male species, my friend:-)
Lyzko
26 Oct 2016
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]
"Female feminists"??? What other kind of feminists are there anyhow? Perhaps "transgender feminists"??!
Hmmm, that's a mind bender:-)
"Female feminists"??? What other kind of feminists are there anyhow? Perhaps "transgender feminists"??!
Hmmm, that's a mind bender:-)
Lyzko
26 Oct 2016
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]
How come? Were accused of making eye contact with one of the Annointed?
LOL
How come? Were accused of making eye contact with one of the Annointed?
LOL
Lyzko
24 Oct 2016
Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]
Hanna < "Hanko", Halina < "Halinka!" "Halinko" etc...
Hanna < "Hanko", Halina < "Halinka!" "Halinko" etc...
Lyzko
24 Oct 2016
Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]
Polish terms of endearment involve mostly the consistent use of the diminutive when addressing the other person aka "Staszku!"/"Sławku!"/ "Czesio!", or even more intimate, "Stasiu!" ("Little Staszek!", "Staszek,hon!", "Czesław, sweetie!" etc..)
"Mama!" < "Mamo!" < "Mamusiu!" [Mom!, Mommy!, Mommy dearest!] and so forth, and so on!!
Polish terms of endearment involve mostly the consistent use of the diminutive when addressing the other person aka "Staszku!"/"Sławku!"/ "Czesio!", or even more intimate, "Stasiu!" ("Little Staszek!", "Staszek,hon!", "Czesław, sweetie!" etc..)
"Mama!" < "Mamo!" < "Mamusiu!" [Mom!, Mommy!, Mommy dearest!] and so forth, and so on!!
Lyzko
24 Oct 2016
Love / Are Polish men handsome to you? [182]
"Handsome" is after all relative, Dreamergirl & Co. I'd prefer "distinctive", in that they can almost always be spotted in a crowd. The same can no longer be said for many other European nationalities:-)
"Handsome" is after all relative, Dreamergirl & Co. I'd prefer "distinctive", in that they can almost always be spotted in a crowd. The same can no longer be said for many other European nationalities:-)
Lyzko
22 Oct 2016
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [554]
Though not necessarily if he'd learned his English through present-day US radio or TV, that's my point! Newscasters of today don't hold a candle to those of yore aka Collingwood, Severeid, Cronkite or Murrow!
:-)
Though not necessarily if he'd learned his English through present-day US radio or TV, that's my point! Newscasters of today don't hold a candle to those of yore aka Collingwood, Severeid, Cronkite or Murrow!
:-)
Lyzko
22 Oct 2016
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [554]
Had Ziemowit learned through our ABC, his English wouldn't be nearly as good!
LOL
Had Ziemowit learned through our ABC, his English wouldn't be nearly as good!
LOL
Lyzko
21 Oct 2016
History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]
True, for many Germans from generations past, Poland was merely farm land, fodder for the German Reich, whose inhabitants were deemed expendable peasant field laborers, there but for the good graces of German nobility, to serve the German people, nothing more, nothing less.
Thankfully though, times have changed!
True, for many Germans from generations past, Poland was merely farm land, fodder for the German Reich, whose inhabitants were deemed expendable peasant field laborers, there but for the good graces of German nobility, to serve the German people, nothing more, nothing less.
Thankfully though, times have changed!
Lyzko
21 Oct 2016
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [554]
Thenewchapter,
Do yourself and your host country a big, big favor and LEARN POLISH, at least enough to get by or why not just visit the country as a plain old sightseer and then return to Thailand!
English isn't going to get you too far or win you many browny points in Poland:-)
Thenewchapter,
Do yourself and your host country a big, big favor and LEARN POLISH, at least enough to get by or why not just visit the country as a plain old sightseer and then return to Thailand!
English isn't going to get you too far or win you many browny points in Poland:-)