News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Hmm, you mean then he imagines he can/could actually stage a comeback??

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Ever since Scholz lost his own party to a vote of no-confidence, are we talking
about a potential Merz candidacy??

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

When posting in either Polish or even Swedish, Italian, any language I learned after my mother tongue(s) etc., I never ever rely on
machine translation, but instead attempt to think and then write in the language I intend
to post, mistakes and all!!

Anybody can dash off a perfect e-mail using GoogleTranslate. This of course is cheating. How often have I received e-mails in 100% native speaker English
from foreigners, only to finally meet them in person (not on Zoom) and notice the cavernous differences between how they "write" vs. how they
actually speakLOL

Incidentally, Ironside, I sent you a private message several weeks ago.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Precisely, just as long as they don't 'die Katze aus dem Sack lassen', he-he!
Americans "spill the beans":-)

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

Money grubbing men too, Johnny! They're called doctors and lawyers, I mean
let's spread the greed around equally LOL

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

In German too I seem to recall a similar idiom.

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

The campaign was indeed in the '90s, however the article
was from several years ago, as it was a retrospective on women's
rights (or the lack thereof) in Poland.

Life / Do you collect mushrooms in your country? Poles in Poland do. [94]

A friend of mine from Swabia in Southwestern Germany used to tell me about
"Pilzsuchfahrten" or "mushroom hunts" when he was a boy growing up around the
Schwaebische Alb.

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

I recall seeing a photograph of a billboard in the Polish news magazine "Wprost", I believe, several years back,
to the effect that women in Poland still feel helpless if their husband comes home drunk and
becomes physically abusive!

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

@Barney, it seems as though Netanyahu is going to lose his shirt over this.
Genocide though implies an ideological agenda rooted in constitutional or government
laws enacted in order to effect such an action, as for example in Nazi Germany with
the Nueremberg Laws.

Israel has no such laws on the books, her actions however despicable under peace time
circumstances, are solely predicated on the actions of the the Palestinians and their initial strike!

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]

Lwow was once known as Lemberg during the height of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
By the logic of the current thread, oughtn't Lwow then be returned to Austria??
lol

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Actually, Israelis show slightly more hospitality to their Muslim neighbors than
they do to American Jews:-)

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

In the light of that most recent attack in Magdeburg just prior to the Christmas Season,
there are sadly more and more public calls for deportation of refugees within Germany!

The new chancellor certainly has plenty to contend with.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Pawian, once again you're letting ahistorical analogy cloud your judgement!

The Nazis were wreaking havoc on a people, namely the Poles simply for being Slavs,
whom they deemed "inferior". The Israelis are merely retaliating for attacks on them
by the Palestinians who intrinsically want to destroy Israel based on nebulous reasons
of some historic primogeniture.

Right-thinking Israeli Jews seek no such intrinsic revenge on their Arab neighbors. However,
even the most pacific human being will fight back, if necessary kill as an act of self-preservation,
if they, their family, their home is attacked. This is sheer animal instinct no matter how religious or
spiritual a person may be.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

@pawian, you need not remain ignorant! Sure you understood me before??

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

You certainly can help it, by not kowtowing to willful ignorance!
If you desire to remains so, you will. If you desire to learn from your ignorance,
you won't, it's that simple.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Once again, "Israeli Nazis" is a vile misnomer, pawian, I'm surpised at you, man!
Israel was attacked by the Palestinians first, for whatever reason, Israel was the
butt of a rival's vicious onslaught, and needed any expedient within reason in order
to fight back, just as with any other nation on earth who has been forced into submission.

The will to survive remains the strongest of all human emotions, don't forget.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

People like to irresponsibly label others as "Nazis", "Faschists" etc.as a knee-jerk, pseudo-liberal
response to anything they dislike! Say some high schoolers find their homeroom teacher too strict.
"Ahh, Mr.________'s such a fxxxxxxg Faschist... he doesn't like to give us recess!!" etc, ad nauseum.

Israelis are no more Faschist or Nazi than you or I.

Only those Holocaust survivors who experience true dictatorship are entitled to apply such epithets,
NOT anybody else!

Study / English or German speaking school in Poznan [4]

I sent you a private message as to your query the other day. Have you received it?

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Comparing Israel under Netanyahu with Nazism is downright sick, misguided, indicating
a complete and utter disregard for historical truth!

German anti-Jewish resentment and slow-burn, violent hatred of same, stoked above all by
Hitler. represented a centuries' long, indeed festering, animosity towards a single group within
a society, deemed "different", therefore weaker, by the majority host culture in whose midst the
Jews were living for hundreds of years before the Enlightenment.

The situation between Jews and Palestinian Arabs of the Muslim faith is one of singular denial
of their Jewish neighbors, the intent of whom, is stated as "to drive Israel into the sea".

The Israeli Jews have no other option than to defend themselves.
Had Germany's sizable Jewish population during the Third Reich been even more integrated
into German society, hence, with the effective use of firearms, hand-to-hand combat beyond merely
that of conscripted service in the First World War, Germany's Jewish citizens would have been able
to fight back tooth and nail, applying all the modern weaponry at their disposal.

As this was not the case, Germany's Jewish population appeared to the Nazis to lack the force of strength, an
attribute considered more important than any other.

Study / Opinions on best Universities in Poland for BioChemistry for foreign students [6]

Thanks, novi! Merely a typo, that's all.
The professor in question did though have a decidedly decided Italian accent in EnglishLOL

Study / Opinions on best Universities in Poland for BioChemistry for foreign students [6]

@Caroline,
If your daughter intends to study in Poland without even a basic knowledge of the
language, do make certain that her professor(s) speak(s) English as a native language, if
you possibly can!

I studied English Lit. for one semester in college here in the States with a visiting prof. from Italy
and, albeit without knowing a word of Italian at the time, found his lectures rather difficult to
understand because of his decided Italian accent, not to mention occasionally mangled
syntax. He of course blamed any misunderstandings on us, his students, rather than on his
less than perfect English.

Just imagine were my native language one other than English, studying in a second language
with a professor whose language of instruction wasn't my mother tongue either.

USA, Canada / The proper behavior an American should show when visiting Poland [159]

"When I am abroad, I don't need "effective relations".

Well that's plainly obvious right from the get go, RIch!
Whaddya do then when English and Polish fail?? Bribe
them with bucks or.......?

USA, Canada / The proper behavior an American should show when visiting Poland [159]

@Rich, if direct communication is the key to effective relations....HIRE A DAMN INTERPRETER
if they can do the job better than you, which ain't sayin' much, pal!!

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

You're right, Milo!
Many of my students would say "Aj amm stadiyINK lawww in Poland, baht aj amm kahmINK tu New York forrr improvINK maj Ingleesh."
Devoicing is final struents is typical of many European languages, hence resulting pronunciation issues in English where nearly all
are voiced.

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

I take pawian's point, Milo.

@Atch, you may be right about Ironside. He sure does a good job concealing it though.

USA, Canada / The proper behavior an American should show when visiting Poland [159]

Odd, Rich that we don't apply the same standard to Poles speaking English!
Apparently you don't think that they sound like "retards".

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

I should work on MY English????! Look who's talking!!
Without GoogleTranslate, you'd be dead in the water.

Never implied my Polish was perfect, but at least I tried
and was always open to correction and improvement.

How about you in English? Ooops, sorry. I guess your
arrogance got in the wayLOL

USA, Canada / The proper behavior an American should show when visiting Poland [159]

Pay no attention to Rich!
ALWAYS speak the language of the country one is in.
The same goes for Poles visiting the States.

They probably won't succeed perfectly, but at least they should try:-)

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Most authentic imitation of a run-of-the-mill Pole speaking
English is the inimitable Meryl Streep in "Sophie's Choice",
bar none!

'Course her gift for accents is legion.