Lyzko
27 Sep 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
Our size for one thing. Our heterogeneity for another.
Our size for one thing. Our heterogeneity for another.
Lyzko
27 Sep 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
Poland is a relatively homogeneous society, albeit a large country by European standards.
Certain countries such as the US or Canada can easily absorb large numbers of immigrants;
Poland is not one of them!
Poland is a relatively homogeneous society, albeit a large country by European standards.
Certain countries such as the US or Canada can easily absorb large numbers of immigrants;
Poland is not one of them!
Lyzko
27 Sep 2023
USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]
Flint has been having her problems over the past thirty odd years.
Flint has been having her problems over the past thirty odd years.
Lyzko
26 Sep 2023
USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]
Marlenka,
Get ready though for some culture shock!
G.B. Shaw once quipped that the US and the UK are two countries separated by the same languageLOL
I actually know of someone who moved from the Midwest to Poland some years back and found the cultural differences far less than she thought, perhaps because more random Poles are somewhat more familiar with US popular culture through the Internet, social media and so forth, than the average American would be with Polish pop culture. This individual is not of Polish descent, by the way.
Marlenka,
Get ready though for some culture shock!
G.B. Shaw once quipped that the US and the UK are two countries separated by the same languageLOL
I actually know of someone who moved from the Midwest to Poland some years back and found the cultural differences far less than she thought, perhaps because more random Poles are somewhat more familiar with US popular culture through the Internet, social media and so forth, than the average American would be with Polish pop culture. This individual is not of Polish descent, by the way.
Lyzko
26 Sep 2023
News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [549]
@gumishu,
Just because the fella's a Communist, doesn't mean he's Jewish! Were Stalin, Georgi Dimitrov, Tito, Ceaucescu or Kadar Jewish?
You're jumping to a false conclusion.
@gumishu,
Just because the fella's a Communist, doesn't mean he's Jewish! Were Stalin, Georgi Dimitrov, Tito, Ceaucescu or Kadar Jewish?
You're jumping to a false conclusion.
Lyzko
24 Sep 2023
News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [32]
Ethnocentric bilge! All language is relative and cannot be quantified subjectively in terms of "ugly" vs. "pretty", "dumb" etc..Your opinions are simply a mirror of your own true feelings, all colored by (negative) personal experience.
You're merely reading into a language how you personally wish to read into it.
To each his own, I suppose.
Ethnocentric bilge! All language is relative and cannot be quantified subjectively in terms of "ugly" vs. "pretty", "dumb" etc..Your opinions are simply a mirror of your own true feelings, all colored by (negative) personal experience.
You're merely reading into a language how you personally wish to read into it.
To each his own, I suppose.
Lyzko
23 Sep 2023
Lyzko
22 Sep 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]
Since the current royal family is essentially of German descent, small wonder that the Poles continue to be seen as interlopers and cheap-labor workforce.
Ever since Albert married Victoria, the Windsor line has become hopelessly intermingled with Saxe-Coburg and later Battenberg aka Mountbatten:-)
The British House still feels it must live down the shame of Edward abdicating the Throne to marry Wally and showing himself a Nazi sympathizer, in the same category as the Mitfords, Lord Haw-Haw, Mosely and the whole bleedin' bunch!
Since the current royal family is essentially of German descent, small wonder that the Poles continue to be seen as interlopers and cheap-labor workforce.
Ever since Albert married Victoria, the Windsor line has become hopelessly intermingled with Saxe-Coburg and later Battenberg aka Mountbatten:-)
The British House still feels it must live down the shame of Edward abdicating the Throne to marry Wally and showing himself a Nazi sympathizer, in the same category as the Mitfords, Lord Haw-Haw, Mosely and the whole bleedin' bunch!
Lyzko
22 Sep 2023
Lyzko
22 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
Rich, you're being idiotic. You're using extreme examples which are so far fetched, they truly beggar comment.
The threat of harm to any would be intruders is usually more than enough to frighten them away.
You merely believe that somehow guns make you a manLOL
Rich, you're being idiotic. You're using extreme examples which are so far fetched, they truly beggar comment.
The threat of harm to any would be intruders is usually more than enough to frighten them away.
You merely believe that somehow guns make you a manLOL
Lyzko
21 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
Things rarely are as they seem, Cargo pants!
One if the many problems in the US is that traditionally, folks throughout most of the country tend to take things solely at face value.
Americans as a whole are still uncomfortable with reflection, rumination, contemplation, mistakenly confusing any sort of thoughtful, heaven forbid intellectual, consideration as pure mental masturbation, period.
If we all thought more and felt less, acted more and reacted with reduced knee-jerk action, we'd be a lot better off.
One of the reasons so many people are petrified, and justifiably so, about being judged by a "jury of their peers", is that most of the peers are morons who rush to judgement, only to find out the accused died in vain.
Things rarely are as they seem, Cargo pants!
One if the many problems in the US is that traditionally, folks throughout most of the country tend to take things solely at face value.
Americans as a whole are still uncomfortable with reflection, rumination, contemplation, mistakenly confusing any sort of thoughtful, heaven forbid intellectual, consideration as pure mental masturbation, period.
If we all thought more and felt less, acted more and reacted with reduced knee-jerk action, we'd be a lot better off.
One of the reasons so many people are petrified, and justifiably so, about being judged by a "jury of their peers", is that most of the peers are morons who rush to judgement, only to find out the accused died in vain.
Lyzko
21 Sep 2023
UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]
Resentment of your motherland, shouldn't be used against your children who seek to understand their ancestral culture.
Your problems with Poland in the end are YOUR problems, not your kids':-)
Resentment of your motherland, shouldn't be used against your children who seek to understand their ancestral culture.
Your problems with Poland in the end are YOUR problems, not your kids':-)
Lyzko
21 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
Trouble is, Rich, that far too many folks reach first for their gun, shoot first, and ask questions later.
Trouble is, Rich, that far too many folks reach first for their gun, shoot first, and ask questions later.
Lyzko
21 Sep 2023
News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [32]
Kazimir ("Casimir") Funk pioneered uses of the vitamin supplement.
Kazimir ("Casimir") Funk pioneered uses of the vitamin supplement.
Lyzko
20 Sep 2023
UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]
You're playing he Devil's Advocate again, RIch!
Let's try a little equal opportunity bullying, huh?
Why discriminate and not include the rest of our posters?
:-)
You're playing he Devil's Advocate again, RIch!
Let's try a little equal opportunity bullying, huh?
Why discriminate and not include the rest of our posters?
:-)
Lyzko
20 Sep 2023
UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]
@Rich, did you ever receive my private mail I sent you the other day?
Or did you ignore that one too, claiming you couldn't understand my English.
"....where my English COMES up short." (simply rather than progressive present).
@Rich, did you ever receive my private mail I sent you the other day?
Or did you ignore that one too, claiming you couldn't understand my English.
"....where my English COMES up short." (simply rather than progressive present).
Lyzko
20 Sep 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]
The first of the "English" royal families, the Plantagenets, was of Norman or French origin.
Geoffrey Chaucer was English-born with French as his mother tongue.
Great Britain was of course entirely Celtic (with some Picts thrown in for good measureLOL)
prior to the arrival of the Angles and the Saxons, thereafter the Normans.
The first of the "English" royal families, the Plantagenets, was of Norman or French origin.
Geoffrey Chaucer was English-born with French as his mother tongue.
Great Britain was of course entirely Celtic (with some Picts thrown in for good measureLOL)
prior to the arrival of the Angles and the Saxons, thereafter the Normans.
Lyzko
19 Sep 2023
UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]
Language interference is natural!
Anybody who's been away from their first or native language for a certain amount of time is going to begin thinking and reacting in the second language.
Language interference is natural!
Anybody who's been away from their first or native language for a certain amount of time is going to begin thinking and reacting in the second language.
Lyzko
19 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
Home Depot. Familiar with 'em?
Home Depot. Familiar with 'em?
Lyzko
19 Sep 2023
UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]
@Rich & Ironside, you're both merely projecting your own lack of English skills.
@Rich & Ironside, you're both merely projecting your own lack of English skills.
Lyzko
19 Sep 2023
Work / How can I found job for Hebrew speakers in Poland? [46]
I'm not angry in the least. Ck. out post #41.
I'm not angry in the least. Ck. out post #41.
Lyzko
19 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
A loud, ultra-sensitive alarm at the front door or gate will scare off the most hardened home invader(s), trust me!
It might make 'em deaf, but not dead:-)
Guns in the home simply hearken back to the days of the Old West, the last frontier to be developed or civilized in comparison to Boston, Baltimore or New York. The Northeast eventually developed whereas much of the Deep South and the Far West remain uncultivated, culturally, a wasteland. Most here in States are either still fighting the Civil War south of the Mason-Dixon line, or they're much like those Bundy folks out West.
Rather sad, when one stops and thinks about it. I've been surrounded by such people all my life and can readily understand why so, so many fellow citizens left the country when Trump became president.
A loud, ultra-sensitive alarm at the front door or gate will scare off the most hardened home invader(s), trust me!
It might make 'em deaf, but not dead:-)
Guns in the home simply hearken back to the days of the Old West, the last frontier to be developed or civilized in comparison to Boston, Baltimore or New York. The Northeast eventually developed whereas much of the Deep South and the Far West remain uncultivated, culturally, a wasteland. Most here in States are either still fighting the Civil War south of the Mason-Dixon line, or they're much like those Bundy folks out West.
Rather sad, when one stops and thinks about it. I've been surrounded by such people all my life and can readily understand why so, so many fellow citizens left the country when Trump became president.
Lyzko
19 Sep 2023
UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]
@Rich,
Is it honestly worth the nonchalantly stumbling, bumbling daze of misunderstanding, when taking the time to communicate in the other's FIRST language will yield 100% rather than a mere 98% clarity? Scarcely! Every day abroad oughtn't have to turn into an ESL nightmare. The following is a scene at a reception desk in some unnamed European country.
English native speaker: Pardon me, may I please have your name?
Foreigner (who likely was forced to learn English in school, hating every moment of it): Please?? Do I have a name? What it means?
English native speaker: Oh, I just wanted to know whom I'm speaking to, that's all.
Foreigner: OK. Thanks, have a nice day!
etc...
@Rich,
Is it honestly worth the nonchalantly stumbling, bumbling daze of misunderstanding, when taking the time to communicate in the other's FIRST language will yield 100% rather than a mere 98% clarity? Scarcely! Every day abroad oughtn't have to turn into an ESL nightmare. The following is a scene at a reception desk in some unnamed European country.
English native speaker: Pardon me, may I please have your name?
Foreigner (who likely was forced to learn English in school, hating every moment of it): Please?? Do I have a name? What it means?
English native speaker: Oh, I just wanted to know whom I'm speaking to, that's all.
Foreigner: OK. Thanks, have a nice day!
etc...
Lyzko
18 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
Most Jews weren't pacifists.
Most Jews weren't pacifists.
Lyzko
18 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
You're looking for easy answers to difficult problems. If that Bowers fella hadn't had a high-powered firearm inside the synagogue, people might well have gotten injured, but most likely not murdered en masse!
You're looking for easy answers to difficult problems. If that Bowers fella hadn't had a high-powered firearm inside the synagogue, people might well have gotten injured, but most likely not murdered en masse!
Lyzko
18 Sep 2023
Lyzko
18 Sep 2023
Work / How can I found job for Hebrew speakers in Poland? [46]
Correct, Alien!
Germans are known to be great pumpers. A mere casual wave while passing friends or colleagues on the street as is common in the States, even if one isn't in any hurry, still may be looked upon by middle-aged or older people in Germany as just a bit too casual, too "American" LOL
Correct, Alien!
Germans are known to be great pumpers. A mere casual wave while passing friends or colleagues on the street as is common in the States, even if one isn't in any hurry, still may be looked upon by middle-aged or older people in Germany as just a bit too casual, too "American" LOL
Lyzko
18 Sep 2023
UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]
The benefits of raising children bi-even trlinguallly cannot be overstated. I for example was raised in a bilingual German-English household and as a
parent, I've tried to raise our daughter in both languages. When she finally made it over to Germany during her first year of grad school, she quickly realized that her half-year experience abroad was all the richer for having studied German:-) In our global economy, it's scarcely enough to claim mistakenly that the world is an English-speaking society! This is a dangerous myth which ought to have been debunked long ago.
The benefits of raising children bi-even trlinguallly cannot be overstated. I for example was raised in a bilingual German-English household and as a
parent, I've tried to raise our daughter in both languages. When she finally made it over to Germany during her first year of grad school, she quickly realized that her half-year experience abroad was all the richer for having studied German:-) In our global economy, it's scarcely enough to claim mistakenly that the world is an English-speaking society! This is a dangerous myth which ought to have been debunked long ago.
Lyzko
18 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
@Rich, your logic is identical to those NRA-types who conveniently claim "Guns don't kill people. People kill people!" ad nauseum...
My response has always been, "If the people didn't have the guns, likely nobody would get killed!"
A vicious-looking German Shepherd or the mere threat of a firearm usually does the trick just as well. Folks'll sure get scared, but probably no one will die in the process.
@Rich, your logic is identical to those NRA-types who conveniently claim "Guns don't kill people. People kill people!" ad nauseum...
My response has always been, "If the people didn't have the guns, likely nobody would get killed!"
A vicious-looking German Shepherd or the mere threat of a firearm usually does the trick just as well. Folks'll sure get scared, but probably no one will die in the process.
Lyzko
17 Sep 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]
It's never the mere question of owning or not owning firearms; it's whether they are used responsibly!
All too often, such is not the case.
It's never the mere question of owning or not owning firearms; it's whether they are used responsibly!
All too often, such is not the case.