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Posts by Lyzko  

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Lyzko   
16 Nov 2016
Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

To be sure, the imposition of English throughout the entire civilized (and uncivilizedLOL) world owes much of its dubious success to the advent of American digitalization, aided and abetted by Hollywood along with Madison Avenue:-)
Lyzko   
15 Nov 2016
Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Not analogous, NotTo Foreigners, since Poland as well as England/America never conquered other countries and imposed their language by force of rule, unless of course, you mean the spread of World English through sheerly a marketing and public relations takeover by the international media aka the Internet.

However this is social and political rather than military:-)
Lyzko   
15 Nov 2016
Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]

If you bothered to look at the latest PISA-study, Finland was found to be number 2 (TWO!!!!) throughout Europe, perhaps the world, in terms of literacy, solid general education, and foreign language acquisition:-) Number 1 was Iceland, no surprise.

Poland was number 15, Germany of all places, nearly the same, maybe lower!!
Lyzko   
15 Nov 2016
Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

On some older or pre-War German maps, most Polish cities and towns were "Germanized", Bytom/Beuthen, Łódż/Litzmannstadt, etc...
Even nowadays, in German atlases, the Polish is always side-by-side with the German, like Gdańsk (Danzig), and so forth.
Lyzko   
4 Nov 2016
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

Sweden has in fact been called "The Nordic Model", albeit not for quite some time now, for the obvious reasons having been discussed at length so far!

She has produced many notables, known also of late as a kind of haven for Poles wishing to leave in order to study abroad:-)

Multiculturalism though was never an issue in Sweden as perhaps it has been on the continent of Europe proper, such as in France, Germany, The Netherlands, and yes, Poland:-)
Lyzko   
4 Nov 2016
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

Yes, you're right.

Sweden has even less familiarity with "diversity"/multiculturalism than Poland! The Saami people, sometimes known as Lapps, scarcely qualify as a "foreign" ethnicity descending upon the country from outside:-)
Lyzko   
4 Nov 2016
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

I never suggested there are "none", only that there are considerably fewer than, say, in the States, the UK or much of the European continent, including of course Scandinavia aka Sweden and the Somalians!

True, Australia's nearly the same size as roughly North America, she nonetheless has fewer than some might think. She's also had her issues with racism, among others, anti-Semitism, going back many decades now.
Lyzko   
4 Nov 2016
Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [145]

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? [283]

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   
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!
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."

))
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?