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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂
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Threads: Total: 45 / Live: 31 / Archived: 14
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From: New York, USA
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Lyzko   
20 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]

Rich, as always, it's your word against that which actually happened!
Obviously there must be a rational explanation for your protracted bitterness
against Poland, and somehow, I can't believe it's because of Gomulka's politics LOL
Lyzko   
19 Apr 2024
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]

A common tongue, you mean. Yes, I can't disagree with that statement.
Sort of reminds me once more of that short, cute little scene in "Casablanca":

Man: And now we speak only English in America. You, treasure! Please, how
much watch?

Woman: Six watch.

Foreign Observer: I see you will both fit in perfectly in America!
Lyzko   
19 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

Protestations to the contrary, one's mother tongue remains one's
mother tongue for the rest of one's life!

Although I've never heard you speak, based solely upon brief
samples of your English posting here on the Forum, there are still
clear, if isolated, examples of first language interference in the way
you express yourself in English, especially when angry, which seems
quite often these days:-)

Above all, you came to the States essentially as an immigrant, not
a visitor, and so ridding your accent as well as trying to linguistically
adapt at leisure to the cultural nuances of American English
and the like, were probably the last things on your young mind.

A language is much like an iceberg. It seems normal on the surface,
yet beneath the ice, there's a hard chunk below the water.

Maybe you spent hours just watching American TV for as long as
possible. That doesn't necessarily mean that you absorbed the language
like a native speaker. There're always bound to be gaps and holes.

Hate to burst your bubble.
Lyzko   
18 Apr 2024
Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

@Rich, while I can't substantiate your experience in Poland
and would scarcely wish to claim you're not being truthful,
unless you were either completely soused on bimber or
were looking at pretty women's skirts (which I could well understand),
I somehow can't believe that you had zero comprehension issues
not speaking Polish in Poland, furthermore, that somehow American
English will become the "second language" there in the future.

Simply put, I think you were on something, dude!
Lyzko   
16 Apr 2024
Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]

The only waste is obtaining a degree of English in a country in which English is not only not
the mother tongue, but more to the point, taught by professors whose first language isn't even
the language in which they are teaching. If the courses are in fact being taught in Polish, this
would seem to defeat the entire purpose of pursuing a degree in English instead of Polish.
Lyzko   
16 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

"Sucking up" to whom, pray, Johnny Reb??
Perhaps to the forces of democracy and humanity?
The only brownie points we gain here would be the
satisfaction of having done the right thing against the
enemy of infantile gratification and cynicism!
Lyzko   
15 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

And if the majority just happens to be dead wrong??
Germany once thought Hitler was the answer. They turned out to be in error and
as a result paid the ultimate price for their error!
Lyzko   
15 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

On the other hand, if what the majority wants is simply flat wrong, bad for the country, objectively speaking,
the government of either nation should intervene and set things right!

Israel's another case in point. Netanyahu's clearly becoming a deficit for his party through his obstinance
and hide bound hawkishness.
Lyzko   
15 Apr 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Seems to me Germany's pro-migrant policies are placing her in similar danger
to Biden's failed border policies. Scholz wants a place for migrants in the FRG
and the AfD doesn't. Biden wants to integrate Mexicans along with certain other
Third Worlders into the US and Trump doesn't.
Lyzko   
13 Apr 2024
Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

Tatoo though is a separate issue! This falls under civil rights discrimination law
which allows for someone to dress as they wish so long as said attire is not
offensive to anyone on the basis of religious, ethnic or social background.

Here in the US, an employer can find themselves in hot water if they fire an
employee based upon arbitrary considerations of either "inappropriate" dress,
even physical appearance.

Right in my state, the state of New Jersey, as of 1990, a person's body odor
was not deemed legal grounds for removal from a public place.
Lyzko   
13 Apr 2024
Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

Indeed, Alien. This was during the 1930's, therefore no longer applicable.
Lyzko   
12 Apr 2024
Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

Such a sign is clearly racist and ought to be removed post haste!!!