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


British donuts are orange-browne - Polish are most often brown


- in this sentence moja królowo fits MUCH better

Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]


Bromke is most probably a German surname and not Polish

News / The Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz cuts down 150,000 trees in the Poland's capital. [84]


miastojestnasze.org/6-lat-150-tysiecy-drzew-mniej-w-warszawie/ - this is how this went in Warsaw in the time of Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]



youth unemployment in Spain is over 30 per cent (was even higher in 2017)

Genealogy / Am I of Polish or German descent? [10]


well - the majority of the inhabitants of West Prussia were Slavic either Kashubs or Poles (to be more strict Kociewiacy) and they spoke Slavic at home even if influence by German to smaller or bigger degree - there were also plenty of people in East Prussia (up to the time of Hitler) who spoke a dialect of Polish (Mazurzy etc) - all of them of course knew German because they were taught it at school


well - the majority of the inhabitants of West Prussia were Slavic either Kashubs or Poles (to be more strict Kociewiacy) and they spoke Slavic at home even if influence by German to smaller or bigger degree - there were also plenty of people in East Prussia (up to the time of Hitler) who spoke a dialect of Polish (Mazurzy etc) - all of them of course knew German because they were taught it at school

as for German citizenship many people in the Opole region and vicinity have German passports (or at least a status called Deutsche Staatsangehoerigkeit)- they claimed it on the basis that their ancestors were citizens of Germany at some point - so I guess it's possible for you to obtain German passport - you would have to find documents supporting your claim in German or Polish archive (one of my uncles received it back in the early 1990's - there is caveat here the law could have changed since then that I am not aware of)

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Victor Suvorov had access to written sources no western historian would ever dream of -even if he wasn't a historian by education - you Russophile - later he just connected the dots

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


I'll answer you with an example - what if after you die somebody prints somewhere that you raped little children - would your children be happy with it

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


I have multiple people to reply to in at least two threads now, so please excuse me - what I think of 500+ for rich people - I don't know maybe it's some malicious twist to silence those who oppose it - maybe the law would be deemed unconstitutional by the opposition if it didn't cover every child - how do i know


PiS is exactly screwing up now what? and when you look in the past you see what kind of challenges PiS faced/faces - corrupt ministerial clerks, corrupt judges, corrupt special services - or as Mr Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz once remarked - państwo teoretyczne czyli ch... du.. i kamieni kupa


the good change is in the economy (at least before the pandemy) thanks to wallets of millions of once deprived Poles

Off-Topic / This is why I say Poland is so far behind in tech [29]


you are a joke indeed - CD Projekt Red hit most of the nails on their heads with vastly popular Witcher - I haven't seen Cyberpunk - I only heard it is (was) a flop because of bugs aplenty - if you want to try and belittle everything polish wholesay because of some bad luck here please go on - but i mostly happily ignore what you expound on here

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


you know what - my guess is the witness who claimed that Malinowski helped to kill other Jews never actually witnessed it as the e-siemiatycze link makes me think

Off-Topic / This is why I say Poland is so far behind in tech [29]


I don't go around the web in searching for beautiful graphics to be honest - can't be arsed to do it now because you ask - all I know is I have seen really beautiful graphics in my time

and again you asked for an opinion - if you can't take criticism don't boast

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


yes - all beneficiaries of 500+ know that PiS can't be trusted

everybody knows that PO, PSL and especially SLD - they can all be trusted: "Pieniędzy nie ma i nie będzie'. 'Nasi eksperci mówią że epidemia minie do września. (września 2020- przypis mój :P) - dlatego nie można przeprowadzić wyborów w maju , no bo te śmiercionośne koperty. 'Nadam ulicy miano Lecha Kaczyńskiego w Warszawie' 'Tablet dla każdego ucznia', 'Znaleźliśmy katarskiego inwestora dla stoczni' etc etc

Off-Topic / This is why I say Poland is so far behind in tech [29]


nothing spectacular to be honest - you asked for an opinion

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

@jon357

so ok - i read the Deutche Welle link - and it states that one of the survivors who was helped by Edward Malinowski claims that he was instrumental in the deaths of several dozens of other Jews - how do you reconcile this? - there were other Jews who survived the war thanks to Malinowski as the 1949 (or 1950) trial found - how do you reconcile this

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


I read this link you posted just now -esiemiatycze.pl/artykul/dziadkowice-ydom-zamordowanych-w-okolicy-malinowa/398174 and it is exactly the Edward Malinowski whom the libel case involved who explained that it was some other Pole who denounced hiding Jews - read carefully - there are no testimonies against Edward Malinowski in the article - maybe your Polish skills need a little honing Jon

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


I have just read the thread through and I never found anybody mention testimonies that contradict those given in the 1949 trial of Malinowski - if you have just quote it

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


I haven't seen any of the kind you keep on mentioning - please quote it

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


this remark was not meant for you but for delphi


they want to create an impression that private media in Poland are stiffled - which I explained is a manipulation - which means they are agressively attacking PiS

maybe you weren't in Poland at that time yet delphi but here's a nice glimpse on Poland under SLD rule - SLD is just another arm of the same octopus: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afera_starachowicka

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


a manipulation even in the title - at least I see it as such - Kaczyński is the most remote person to an Russian apologist I know

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


I don't know of any testimony that would contradict those from the 1949 trial - please show me if you have any

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


read my post above - you swallowed the manipulation too

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


the media can happily add the tax to their prices - sure the higher cost of advertising would influence consumer prices a bit that's all - instead they have thrown a tantrum - if this is not political what is - you swallowed it as an attack on the media (as probably millions of others) - I see their move as an attack - and the tax as just another tax

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

@gumishu - but well you always hated PiS as long as I can remember so you probably never will change your mind - hatered blinds - that's all I have to say

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


please quote it - how do i know there are any testimonies to support your claim

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


the court has spoken now - and it said there was a libel

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


wysokienapiecie.pl/34168-ceny-pradu-rosna-przez-oplate-mocowa-ale-nie-koniec-podwyzek/ - read this - opłata mocowa is not a whim of PiS it is there to give Polish energetic system more safety - also the electricity prices in Poland are still lower than the EU average (last I checked Germans pay almost 50 per cent more than us)

once again - seriously read this article (I doubt you ready any of the articles I posted but well..) - tvp.info/43539295/kierunkowano-nas-na-sciganie-legalnych-podmiotow-a-tymczasem-rozwijaly-sie-mafie

if you don't infer from the article that the PO, PSL and others from the so called total opposition are crooks then I don't know what could change your mind

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


the court has spoken - I don't even get when you get all those new and recent testimonies - if there where any the court would pass a different verdict

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


of course I understand - I also understand the mechanism by which PiS aims to lessen the burden of the social spending - and I understand why Trzaskowski said: 'Nic co zostało dane, nie zostanie zabrane' (Nothing that was given will be taken away (as for the social spending under PiS) - I just don't find the prospect of PO, PSL or SLD getting power back appealing - imagine big social spending and a renewed VAT fraud, fuel smuggling and a monopoly on media

so yeah - this whole current action is purely political and the argument that PiS wants to shut down hostile media is manipulative - but I guess Paulina would not understand

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


thank the EU CO2 quotas for that - and the PO government who agreed on the new system of counting the quotas or some such (basically Poland first agreed to be eligible to pay excessive CO2 starting from 1990 or 1989 and Tusk agreed to change that to the detriment of Poland (and to give him a boost to his career in Europe)

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


they can happily add this new tax to the prices of their add time/space which will doublethe positively effect on the budget - the whole action is simply political (and anti-PiS)