News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]

As there is a USA, there too must be an EU, or the whole continent will be lost and we'll all be back to where we were centuries ago, fighting brutal trade wars based solely on gain, without treaties, without finite goals!

Genealogy / Typical Polish Eye Color [77]

Precisely! The small, turned up nose, bright blue eyes and often sculptured features are typically Polish facial charactaristics:-)

Genealogy / Typical Polish Eye Color [77]

?? Which Poles have you been staring at recently? Most in my extensive experience observing faces have at least lightish to piercing cobalt blue eyes (like Radek Sikorski and Beata Szydło), and those with brown or darkish eyes are most likely an admixtures way back when of Polish with Kaszub or Carpathians:-)

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]

Oh, au contraire. It's barely started:-)

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Poland didn't so much "welcome" German "settlers" into what was at the time deemed Polish territory, Poland needed the skills and services offered by neighboring Germany!

The latter was to be sure far more advanced academically, scientifically and later on, industrially. Rarely did Germans choose to study in Poland, yet Poles could not say their professional education was even complete without at least a period abroad, studying for example in Berlin, Munich or Regensburg.

The presence of Germans in Polish territory, as I've said often before, is one of the reasons why so many German cities, town, and villages have German names alongside Polish ones.

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]

Trolling?? Look who's talking! If you're simply posting in order to provoke, THAT'S "trolling", but if one's posting in order to generate interesting, fruitful, and useful discussion, that's "contributing":-)

Sure you know the meaning of the word you used or are you merely mimicking other English expressions you see on PF?
lol

What exactly do you mean by "out of the picture"? As I recall, actor Sean Connory and many others have desired a clean break from the UK aka the EU for years!!

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]

Poles call for EU reforms.

Really???! Ya coulda knocked me over with a featherLOL

Add their name to that of the English, the Scots, the French, the Italians, and the Germans!! Poland, you're in splendid company:-)

Love / Fell in love with Polish girl at work : / [22]

Well, at least he'll begin to peak her interest:-) I mean, how many Polish girls aka women expect that some British bloke's gonna even bother to learn her language, much less properly?

Love / Fell in love with Polish girl at work : / [22]

If you learn her language, but seriously and well, you'll all by knock her stockin's off:-) You'll have her eating out of your hand in no time!

Genealogy / Displaced Persons Camp / Work camp and concentration camp difference [86]

In Bad Arolsen are located the files of not only displaced persons, but also individual Holocaust victims and their known fate:-) Typically "Arbeitslager" were separate and distinct from concentration camps aka "KZs", or "Sammellager" in which both gentiles as well as Jews were interned!

This is my understanding from years immersed in research on the subject.

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

I agree. He's more of a sort of "home boy" hero type to me:-)

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Some debate about whether or not he was technically considered Polish or German, after all, Toruń at the time of his birth was still called "Thorn"!

Sorry to nit pick.

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

There was a famous French poet named "Apollinaire" and I believe he was Polish as well.

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Knowledge is dangerous to BOTH, to oneself as well as one's nemesis:-)

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Thank you! Should have mentioned him:-)

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Already listed way above under his Polish spelling:-)

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

If you then include scores of Polish Jews/half-Jews, indeed, the list of "Polish" accomplishments becomes even longer. And don't forget about Jerzy Koziński, Roman Polański, Tuwim, Różewicz, Leśmian, Brzechwa etc... Oh, yes! Almost forgot about Joseph Conrad, master English stylish, who, though not known for his contributions to Polish culture per se, was nonetheless a full (and a noble) Pole!!

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

And not only gaming, but the Polish capital has become a "virtual" (no pun meant here) hotbed for all manner of software startups and there's a capitalistic zeal worthy of Silicon Valley!!

Small wonder that the youngest Poles, those in their teens and early twenties are learning English with a vengeance:-)

Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [144]

hi, margaret

Guess there's no further need since receiving your e-mail just now:-)
Sorry to have bothered you!

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Don't forget about mathematicians, scientists, writers etc..

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Much as in the H.C Andersen tale of "The Emperor's New Clothes", Germans by contrast are treated as FIRST-WORLD citizens because everyone, including their closest neighbors, is somehow afraid of telling them they are any less than perfect (as none of the townspeople dares to exclaim that the Emperor's naked, save for a little boy, quickly shushed, if I recall the story correctly)!

By contrast, Polish jokes continue to abound, and sadly a lot of Poles have started to buy into them. Everybody feels as though they need German technology and would be lost without it. A bit of skillful PR work might end up catapulting the Poles into a front-runner position of being taken seriously, a position denied them for far too long, and one which I believe they finally deserve:-)

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

A Russian troll meets an American troll!! Trust you feel in good company, Johnny:-)

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

...Szopen, Łobaczewski, Mickiewicz, Stanisław Lem, Igor Sikorski (half-Ukrainian on his mother's side), Andrzej Wajda, the list goes on and on and on......
LOL

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Quit trolling und start reading:-)

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Czy znasz podręcznik "Wśród Polaków" (Wydawnictwo Fundacja Kościuszka)?

Please keep to the topic of this thread

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

..but everybody cares about MONEY!!! As far as the first, don;itkid yourself

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Yes, exactly! And of course, what's so embarrassing about such bloopers is that NO POLE would actually say them, except possibly in jest:-)

Sort of like that old joke from the '60's, translating the German into English "Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn" as "Invisible idiot" rather than "Out of sight out of mind", or from English into Russian, "The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak" as "The vodka was good, but the meat was bad." etc.....

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

No brainer, but Google Translate's often just flat WRONG!! Machine translation as it is should be taken with a [huge] grain of salt:-)

I recently came across "Dziękuję z góry!" translated as "Thank from mountain!" vs. the idiomatically correct "Thank you in advance!" etc.
ad hilarium lol

Law / Poland's invitation letter validity. [26]

As I mentioned, since you are likely a Russian national, the Russian Consulate/Embassy most probably handles such matters:-)

Off-Topic / What is funny about this picture? [31]

It used to be called "fagging", as in Tom Brown's Schooldays:-) The Germans use a made-up. pseudo-"Denglisch" word for it; they call it "Mobbing", and it's equally unpleasant, trust me.