History / Did Poles living in Germany support Hitler's rise to power before World War II? [161]

@wsilpach, kindly cease and desist with your anti-semitic diatribes! As a proud Pole,
'they certainly don't aid your cause.

News / What will Britain's Labor Coup mean for Poland? [100]

Thanks, jon. I guess I prefer my American spelling:-)

@Lenka, did you mean "Brexit"??

News / What will Britain's Labor Coup mean for Poland? [100]

Apparently, Starmer will continue to support the current Brexit! What that'll
mean for Labor's relations with Poland remains to be seen.

Off-Topic / Moderators on PF are breaking the law: not only they can reported for it, but fines apply [96]

@wslipach, you really ought to proofread your English before you post! The first line of
your thread intro. reveals several egregious errors both in grammar as well as meaning.
Not sure I understand what you're trying to say.

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

I was thinking more in terms of apples.

News / Low Priced Ukraine Blueberries have exporters routing around Poland [17]

Ukraine might well have the best blueberries, but Poland still has the best apples, I'm told.

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

..and off the deep end, so it seems.

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

Topic thread here, folks??

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

Poland is also known for some of the best natural produce on the Continent,
furthermore, she has considerable wilderness, often not found in most European countries,
except perhaps for Northern Sweden or Finland.

In addition to a rich history, Poland can also count Adam Mickiewicz as the first to
write an epic in modern European literature, namely, "Pan Tadeusz", add to that,
the first composer to teach the piano to sing, Frederyk Szopen aka Frederic Chopin, and so forth, and so on....

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

Thanks, jon!

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

Most intriguing! Any inkling as to why?

Perhaps a verb using the preposition "za" would be the
nearest equivalent, e.g. "wyjsc za maz", literally "go after [a] husband"

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

Hmmm, interesting. Will have to ck. into that, jon.

I somehow recall though "byc nastepca", "nastep(-ow)ac".

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

kombinowac = to make stuff up

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

I agree, jon.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

Well, Johnny, I'm glad to hear one of youse admit it!

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

Much of such talk has long been debunked by scholars.

News / 33rd Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow [6]

Krakow still has the largest population of Jews in Poland
as well as the most active Jewish life.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

Macron and partner in crime Scholz will risk losing the election next time round!!
All this will make Le Pen and her cohorts among the AfD look ever more attractive:-)

Same here with Biden allowing illegal migrants over the border who end up killing
a college student. The bone heads out there in la-la land, people who don't read the
New York Times because they probably can't read, will simply end up voting for Trump.

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

Thanks, Milo! Appreciate all the hard won kudos I can get there, mate:-)

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

Albanian for "you" formal is "Ju" and pronounced 'yeeew',
with a nearly pure umlaut homophone! Hungarian for "house" is "haz"
(acute accent mark above the "a"!), and while a direct cognate for the English lexical equivalent,
albeit with varying pronunciation, points to ZERO historic relation with the Germanic languages.
Hungarian is Uralic with a heavy dose of neighboring Slavic vocabulary and Albanian, as far as we
can tell is mostly Illyrian, add to that, strong admixture over the centuries from Greek and Turkish.

In short, as a linguist myself, I'd have to side with both Maf and Milo and dub your notions double bullox!!

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

There I agree with you, Rich, I didn't miss your point at all!
Europeans often speak a kind of bookish English
because they translate literally in their head before expressing
themselves and not figuratively, that's quite right.

Why d'you think most traditional American humor such as the Marx Bros.
or Abbott & Costello usually goes way over their heads?

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

Then I suppose you're referring to yourself with that last sentence, right?
You came from Poland, oh' sorry, that's right. I almost forgot. Only brown-skinned
"foreigners" should stay away, even if the original inhabitants of North America
were reddish or brown-skinned.

You don't like the double standard, Rich, or merely the fact that I called you on it?
Don't answer right away though. Think about your answer before making the usual ass
of yourself. LOL

Off-Topic / I saw flying oras many of them flying above my backyard [5]

Most likely you're right:-)

Off-Topic / I saw flying oras many of them flying above my backyard [5]

Oras, Robin 1988?? Do you mean perhaps "orcas"?
LOL

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

Rich, we criticize foreign governments on a regular basis. Why shouldn't
foreigners aka non-US citizens feel as free to criticize us? That's a double standard.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

@Johnny, Atch is right!
Since Continentals don't speak English as a first language, what can happen
is that, say, a Pole speaking in English with a German, or a Frenchman with a
Balt, a Spaniard with a Swede for example, will talk past one another, owing frequently to differing pronunciation
of English words.

Swede: Are you estranged from your parents?
Spaniard: Oh, jess, my parent are very estrange persons...

German: What do you make here for the work? (Translation: What do you do here?)
Frenchman: I make many money!

I think you get the idea. Often, the results are quite funny:-)

Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

Poles in general, I've found, do indeed wear their emotions on their sleeve, so the saying goes.
Well known story about the once famous US-silent screen star Pola Negri, nee Apolonia Chalupiec,
who, even after living and working for over fifty-odd years in the US, first on the East Coast and then
of course in Hollywood, could never get used to the Anglo-Saxon concept of "keeping a stiff upper lip"
and repressing her feelings. This by her own admission.

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

Troll, Ironside?? I'd never agree about that:-) Agent provocateur, perhaps.
Anyhow, quit projecting!

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

Well, Ironside! At least you and I both agree that a AfD victory would be as disastrous for
Poland as for Germany:-)