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Posts by Lyzko  

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Lyzko   
26 Jun 2025
Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [204]

Oh, of the latter I'm well aware! :-)
As far as such tricky vowel distinctions like those you mentioned,
I honestly can't think of a single language learner group I've taught in
over thirty years of ESL instruction who can distinguish "bother"/"father",
"mother"/"moth" etc. Then again, I was teaching exclusively US English.

Certain consonantal combinations as well can drive English learners to distraction
and by no means exclusively the Poles.
Lyzko   
26 Jun 2025
Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Ha-Ha, Panie Rysku!!

Wiec Rozewicz, Tuwim, Kozinski, itd..... NIE sa Polakami??!
Grekami sa?

To jest glupstwo!
Lyzko   
26 Jun 2025
Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [204]

Younger, university educated Poles tend naturally to have more British-style accents in English than much older,
less educated Poles!

Same all over. While American vocabulary is becoming more common throughout Europe, Europeans still learn
the RP spoken on the BBC rather than American pronunciation.
Lyzko   
25 Jun 2025
Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Co to jest "prawdziwych Polakow", Alien?
Czy to znaczy " dla urodzonych Polakow"??
Czy to znaczy dla zagranicznych Polakow?
Ciekawy jestem.
:-)
Lyzko   
25 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [557]

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Lyzko   
24 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [557]

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Lyzko   
24 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

At long last!!
Can't tell youse how long New York's been broadcasting Telemundo Uno
to assist the city's often monolingual Hispanic population:-)
Lyzko   
24 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [557]

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Lyzko   
23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [557]

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Lyzko   
23 Jun 2025
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [185]

Yes and no, WarSore!
Apparently for years now, Israeli school groups are invited to visit Krakow's Jewish Quarter,
paid for by the Polish gov't:-)

There probably are more native-born Polish Jews living in Poland, even if under
an assumed identity, than in Germany. As you know, Poland's Jews were historically
far less assimilated than in Germany.
Lyzko   
23 Jun 2025
Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [220]

Didn't take any public transportation when last in Poland during the '90's,
however surely it couldn't be any worse than in Rome during the '70's.
Thought I'd keel over from the stench inside a packed bus in the summer
when I was on a teen tour. Apparently, the windows didn't open and Romans
didn't believe in deoderant!
Lyzko   
23 Jun 2025
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [185]

You're saying then that Catholicism in Poland is/was more of a shield against the onslaught of Communism
post war, than a religious conviction. Is this substantively correct?
Lyzko   
23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [557]

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23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [557]

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Lyzko   
23 Jun 2025
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [185]

If anything, present-day Poland bends over backwards to accomodate Jewish people.
Whether it's a "police state" or not, I couldn't say as I never lived in Poland. My experiences
though with Polish people nowadays whom I've met throughout my life, suggest that Poland
remains an arch-Catholic Conservative country, but scarcely Nazi leaning.

Sounds frankly like rubbish to me.
Lyzko   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

What do you mean here by "moral equivalency"? Yet one more example of
language transference from Polish to English. The words of course are clear
and you obviously know English, however I can't quite grasp your meaning.

And when you write, "break the norms of war", do you mean perhaps "set new standards
for warfare"?

I'm not trying to carp on your English, I simply wish to understand what you are saying, that's all!
Lyzko   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@amiga500,
Mine is/are English and German.
Thought I detected some degree of second-language interference in your
reply.
To be frank, Poles tend to remind me of dramaramas when replying to
a complex topic about which they desire to make a serious impression in a second language.

Your writing was not entirely comprehensible. No offense. It's
merely language transference from one thought process to another:-)
Lyzko   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Don't see the analogy, amiga500. You're comparing apples and oranges.