Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]

"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:-))

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]

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:-)

History / History behind Poland and Turkey's Relationship [120]

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!

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:-)))

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:-)

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.

:-)

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

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Then we'd call him an ultra-liberal:-)

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:-)

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:-)

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

How come? Were accused of making eye contact with one of the Annointed?
LOL

Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]

Hanna < "Hanko", Halina < "Halinka!" "Halinko" etc...

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!!

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:-)

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

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!

:-)

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

Had Ziemowit learned through our ABC, his English wouldn't be nearly as good!
LOL

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [871]

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!

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

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:-)

Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [145]

Hi again, Paweł aka Pablo!

Trust you've already received my e-mail. I don't presently have access to Skype and so would prefer e-mail, if that's still possible:-)

tarsape@gmail

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [55]

Good for you, Ziddi!

It's tough going at first, but well worth it in the end:-)

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [55]

Do you speak any Polish yet? Scarcely expect the Poles to understand Indlish or any one of the four hundred some odd languages from your country:-) I can barely keep track of them all myselfLOL

News / As a Time Capsule From The Holocaust Was Found In Zlocieniec, Poland [34]

Compare New York with Portland, Oregon, Istanbul to the wilds of Anatolia, Moscow or Ektkaterinenburg and Irkutsk etc...

News / As a Time Capsule From The Holocaust Was Found In Zlocieniec, Poland [34]

Apropos, jon, when I mentioned once to an acquaintance from Gdańsk that I knew a Polish woman from Przemyśl, the former quipped, "Oh, I thought you said she was from Poland!":-)

Guess provincial snobbery and the like cuts many ways.

Language / The "end piece" of a loaf of bread in Polish [80]

In English, "quite close by (to) Cracow" would probably be the best translation.
:-)

Language / In search of Mówimy po polsku audio files [6]

@johnstol,

Am a son of the 60's myself (.....come the next five years or so, soon to be IN my sixtiesLOL), but only wished to caution you as to the pretty crass changes in speech which have occurred since '66, in Polish as well:-))

Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [145]

Hey, Rich!/ Cześć,Panie Ryszku!

I teach English as well, although not on Skype, not yet anyway:-)
Certainly be interested in exchanging thoughts on methodology, since I teach English, German, and have tutored Polish professionally on occasion, more US-born beginners, at this point.

Poles tend to learn other languages more phonetically than Anglo-American native speakers, I've found. As English is so chaotically UNphonetic, Americans at any rate seem to learn by reading, rather than by listening.

That's been my experience though.

Hope to hear from you, if and when you have a chance.
marekzgerson@yahoo

Language / In search of Mówimy po polsku audio files [6]

I never used that book, but I'm here in the States. To be frank, that's a fairly old textbook and the language has changed quite a bit since then.

Guess though for bread-and-butter basics, such as grammar, it'd be allright. Slang and colloquialisms however, might get you more of a good laugh than an earnest respone these days:-)

Not knocking the book in itself, only the 60's are a long ways away.

I'd try bookbox,com for almost any language. The plethora of on-line material for Polish also is rather staggering!

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

I am and I did and I stand by my post!

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

Obviously from their own fears:-)

News / Britain - problem for Poland and Poles? [117]

Well, for how long is it "staying", (...and finally, when is it leaving)?
LOL

D'you mean perhaps "It CAN BE FOUND in the title of THE article"?
You're translating again, old man:-)