Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

I can speak fluent Polish and not every Pole can speak English as effectively
as those who studied either German or Russian!

Oh, they'll pretend that they "love" to communicate in English, yet make oodles of errors
which in my experience they rarely if ever endeavor to correct.

On the other hand, they'll usually make every endeavor to correct a foreign visitor's Polish
at the drop of a hat.

As with many Europeans, the Dutch among the worst offenders in this regard, far too many Poles somehow
feel that if nearly every utterance is not peppered with the "f-curse", then they're not speaking EnglishLOL

Food / Healthy polish food? [143]

That's not stupid at all. However, bacon and sausage are the very ingredients which add flavor and verve to the dish.

Food / Healthy polish food? [143]

@Atch,
I'll gladly exchange one of your bangers & mash for one of their bigos platters any day of the week
and then you and I can talk salt or saturated fat content!

Food / Healthy polish food? [143]

Polish food is not only exceptionally tasty, but healthy too!

News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Well we know that. Furthermore, I'm not a Polish native speaker
nor did I ever pretend to be.

News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

I guess then the legion mistakes I made in Polish were also intentionalLOL

News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Tak jest, ale nie "a", lecz "a,"(diacritical mark below) Narzednik/Instrumentalis.

Study / Are Masters in Poland free of charge for EE citizens? (English) [7]

@Atch, as I've stated on previous occasions, if the professor(s) are native UK speakers, for instance,
who teach the course in English to other English native speaking students, where's the problem?

However, I could scarcely imagine a Greek native speaker sitting in a lecture/seminar room and listening to
a Polish, German or French native speaker with all the second, even third language interference which such
entails, lecturing or discussing in their semi-fluent English.

This is the stuff of lowbrow comedy, Abbot & Costello meets the Marx Bros.LOL

I recall a brief incident where a German professor visited our school in Manhattan to give a seminar on
new ESL teaching techniques. We all arrived for the seminar, all of us English native speakers, to find the
professor writing various learning tips on the board: "Scheduled learning is going in front of all."
The words are English, yet the sense was incomprehensible to our group. I suggested to the speaker, being
a second language English speaker, that perhaps he meant "Systematic study is of primary importance."
when the fellow snapped at me "Ahemm, you obviously don't understand what I mean, but in English, we
say "Scheduled learning"!

Obviously he was translating almost word for word from his native German " Vor allem planmaessiges Studium
ist ganz wichtig".But arrogance on this level I never encountered in my entire career.

Study / Are Masters in Poland free of charge for EE citizens? (English) [7]

Why again would someone want to study in Poland in English of all things??
The converse would be equally moronic, studying abroad in a language not
in the student's native tongue, moreover taught by a non-native of that language!
It's the blind leading the blind.

News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Not in the slightest.

News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Borodin's not to everyone's taste:-)

News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Perhaps to understand Russia, the chorus from Borodin's "Prince Igor", for example speaks equivalently to the
Russian melos. Then there's always "Vyechernii dwoni" or "Evening Bells".

Travel / Looking for a new long-term stay in Poland [18]

@Evada, do yourself and the rest of your neighbors a big favor by learning the basics of the language
PRIOR to arriving in Poland!

Poles on average, much as we here in the US, are growing just a wee bit tired of foreigners coming
to our country with zero knowledge of the target language.

In this case, your knowledge of Polish need scarcely be perfect, even fluent, but it shouldn't be non-existent.
You can't always rely on English to get by:-)

History / BEATS OF FREEDOM - A HISTORY OF POLISH ROCK MUSIC [108]

In an interview with Roman Polanski, he mentioned that when he
was making "Noz w wodzie" in 1962, jazz was in fact forbidden in Poland
and the director had to negotiate with aka bribe the Polish authorities in order
to allow him to include the jazz soundtrack in the film which gave it its special
bite and cool flavor.

Freedom to follow yet a different beat, so it seems!

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [645]

The Jews, the Israelis, are no worse than anyone else,
but certainly no better!

So much for the Chosen People, Holier than Thou BS.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

If a Gaza deal somehow is brokered upon the death of the Oct.7th mastermind,
it might put Kamala over the top!

A Deus ex machina she surely needs.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Linguistically correct assumption, jon.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Right, Maf!
Polish, German, and other languages have such a distinction, English hasn't.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Hear, hear pawku!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

How about the American thought police??
What d'you people call Ultra radical Right wing radio??

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

@Pawku, Kamala's winning and it looks as though Pennsylvania will really tilt the odds:-)

Study / Studying in Poland without speaking Polish? [15]

If the instructors are native, educated English speakers, somebody
from the States, the UK or Australia could study a subject in Poland
taught by a native speaker of their mother tongue, no brainer.

However, for a Hausa native speaker from Nigeria with English only
as a second, perhaps third, language to expect to profit from going to,
say, Poland or Germany or wherever on the continent of Europe to study
in a language NOT their own, and taught by a professor whose native tongue
isn't English either, seems to me the stuff of high comedy...and the joke is on
the foreign student!

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

@Johnny, I've been arguing the same point for years now and it's
already moot!

Your ilk has all but forgotten that in life, you don't do twenty-four seven
just what you want to do, but what you HAVE to do...or else.

Every movement has its downside. Yet pre-Civil Right, non-white Americans,
tax paying citizens, many of whom fought and fought proudly in the Big One,
didn't even have library privileges in certain states, much less the basic freedoms
they enjoy today.

You're mired in the same prejudices as the rest of America. You're deafened, dumbed down,
and sheer blinded by the race issue.

By the by, Bloomberg has Harris ahead as well and the last time I fact checked, Bloomberg
News is an independent, indeed Centrist to Right leaning, news agency.

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

According to this week's NYT, Scholz just won a victory against the encroaching AfD
in Saxony and Thuringia! As Europe is slowly turning Left once again, this seems to
dovetail with Harris' steady lead over Trump!

I hope people are getting tired of the same ol' reactionary song and dance about
stray foreigners taking over white collar jobs etc.
While there may be some degree of statistical truth to such a claim, it's no reason
to turn the clock back pre-Civil Rights and a return to the bad old days.

Moderation, not extremism either Right or Left, should remain the watchword.

Life / Polish Music. [303]

I still prefer Old timer jazz, boogey-woogey, "The Duke" Ellington, some early Beatles,
Paul Mauriac "Love is blue" (L'amour est bleu) and a whole bunch of antedelluvian hits:-)

Life / Polish Music. [303]

Not a fan of metal either.

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

@Milo, an insult by its very nature consists of besmirching someone's
intelligence, intellect etc. without one scintilla of proof.
Thus far, you've provided none whatsoever!

As far as my comments are concerned, they're the result of both careful research
along with observation over many years of travel and study, both here and abroad.

Life / Polish Music. [303]

I'd have to concur!
Is Metallica popular in Poland, by the way?
Just curious.

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

Well, Milo, "idiot" for starters surely doesn't bode well for constructive communication, does it.
Who do you think you are anyhow, Novichok aka Rich aka Ryszard??

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

@Milo, I happen to agree with jon on this point.

Nevertheless, the fact that you disagree is no reason to start calling me names!!