Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]

Are you sure?


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_optics

Quote:

"Optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, followed by theories on light and vision developed by ancient Greek and Indian philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world."


Half German...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witelo

Quote:
"Witelo's mother was from a Polish knightly house, while his father was a German settler from Thuringia. "


You mean 'Kopernikus'? I heard he was German as well... :)


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen

Quote:
"Oxygen was discovered independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774"

History / Polish conscripts to German army [132]

Leignitz was close to the concentration camp Gross-Rosen approx. 60km south of Breslau.

History / Polish conscripts to German army [132]

Either this...

wollheim-memorial.de/en/herkunft_und_anzahl_auslaendischer_zivilarbeiterinnen_und_zwangsarbeiterinnen

and he was forced to work for the Wehrmacht, or your grandfather was a so-called 'Volksdeutscher'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksdeutsche

History / Polish conscripts to German army [132]

Have you seen these already?

familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3ANitsz

Nitsz might be the Hungarian or Galician variation of the German name Nitsche.

History / Polish conscripts to German army [132]


Depends how you look at it. The invoice is usually split up into labor (for research) plus extra costs for copies, notarized transcripts and the like.

History / Polish conscripts to German army [132]

You have no clue what you're talking about, dude. State archives, the protestant and catholic churches, civil registration offices, other government agencies - they all charge for genealogical information. Not only in Germany, but also in Poland, the US and many other countries around the world. Why would Germany be obliged to pay for someone else's research and give away document copies for free that date back to the 1500's for example? Because of the Nazis? Sure... :)

I'm against charging for these things in general because they are public property in my eyes, but to demand that Germany makes an exception because of what happened in WW2 is just plain BS.

History / Polish conscripts to German army [132]


I'm sure you will tell us your version of the story one day... :)


Your grandmother must have been a very strong individual if she was able to overcome the prevailant divide between Poles and Germans along ethnic and religious lines.


prevalent

History / Polish conscripts to German army [132]


I wasn't trying to lecture you, Fred. I was merely pointing out a possible scenario that might contradict your assumptions.

Good luck with your project.

History / Polish conscripts to German army [132]

John, your family name sounds very German. Are you sure your father's ancestors weren't German/Prussian, and your dad was drafted into the Wehrmacht because he was considered a so-called 'Volksdeutscher'? Just wondering.

To check name distribution in Poland: .moikrewni.pl/mapa/

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

The Teutonic Order/Prussian/German influence on Polish history is limited to WW2, as we all know... :)

Genealogy / I have Jewish DNA, but only know of Polish ancestry . [120]


In genealogy, you usually count 25 years per generation. That's pretty accurate on the average even if you go back many generations.


abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=5386347
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_antiquity

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

So what you really wanted to write was 'poultry'?

Law / German/Polish Citizenship. Is my father German or Pole? [17]


If you were born out of wedlock, only if your mother was German.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


Sorry to correct you yet again, Wlodzimierz, but you cannot use the word 'ekelig' (commonly spelled 'eklig', by the way) like that. What Jan had in mind was "Das war ein bißchen (bisschen) gemein von mir".

Glad I could help... ;)

Life / Do Poles have a problem understanding American English? [76]


So do these French instructors look down on the locals and their lousy French skills?


Well observed.

Life / Do Poles have a problem understanding American English? [76]



There it is again: the difference between theory and reality... ;)

Life / Do Poles have a problem understanding American English? [76]


Of course, but the question is how you do that. You can do it in a nice way, or you look down on the locals and let them know how lousy their English skills are. If you go for the second option, don't be surprised if you'll get the proper response. Besides: make sure that your own English (or other language) is really as good as you think it is... :)

Life / Do Poles have a problem understanding American English? [76]


Not that I told you so, Wlodzimierz... :)

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

Well, how about asking them in a nice way not to switch to English when they try to communicate with you? Show some basic manners, because there's a good chance that your moaning and whinging will make you come across like an arrogant twat otherwise.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Sure there is: just don't expect any foreigner to speak English on the same level as a native speaker. It's a big accomplishment already that they can communicate with you in YOUR language, and to criticize that doesn't come across too well, if you know what I mean.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Yes, I know. I simply have an issue with Wlodzimierz attitude. Just because they make a few mistakes, he keeps looking down on people who have learned English as a second language.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


So why don't you speak a second language then? :)

In the UK, teaching a second language is compulsory since 2010. In the US, foreign languages are usually taught in high school. Same in Australia. Enrollment numbers are quite embarrassing though.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Come back with your criticism when institutions in the Anglosphere will finally begin to teach a second language from elementary straight through highschool. Until then, mainland Europeans are so far ahead of any American, Canadian, Brit, Kiwi or Australian that they make us look like Neanderthals.

History / Lobau, West Prussia. Is this now Lubawa in Poland, or Lobau in Germany? [9]

If the marriage certificate says Löbau, Westpreussen, then...

in the 1860's: Löbau, Königreich Preussen
in 1884: Löbau, Provinz Westpreussen, Deutsches Reich
in 2014: Lubawa, Poland

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


You're obviously hanging out with the wrong people... :)

News / POLAND to have its own automobile brand (back), the SYRENA! [36]


Polski Fiat? ;)

USA, Canada / Why do you guys think that so much Polonia is fake? [51]


George Zimmerman would have shot YOU, that's the point.

USA, Canada / Why do you guys think that so much Polonia is fake? [51]


One day you will meet your very own George Zimmerman.

USA, Canada / Why do you guys think that so much Polonia is fake? [51]


Wariat, the Polack gangsta from da hood ... LOL! Is this a joke, or what? You know that "the hood" is always associated with the idea of a run-down, crime ridden ghetto, right? So are you saying that Poland is such a place?

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

The LDS database has 1,944 hits for the name Daberkow alone

and another 95 for Daberko:

My bet for the correct spelling would be 'Daberkow', as most individuals in the database seem to come from Brandenburg, Pommern and other nearby areas. Most of the people have very German sounding given names by the way.