Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


"my som" is even easier to pronounce ;)


Górale are a stubborn folk and they like sticking to their traditions including their speech - if it was just for a financial incentive I doubt they would retain it

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

@Alien
they mostly need to learn how to take care of themselves which many 16-year-olds are not quite able to yet

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


the US didn't invade Iraq twice - the first Gulf war was to liberate Kuwait from Iraqis - but feel free to correct me

also Ukraine IS low on heavy weapons and low on ammunitions for those heavy weapons - for every shell the Ukrainias fired Russians fired at least 10 - also the shortage of manpower has only been a problem for Ukraine for about last two or three months


actually the US bombed Japan into surrender - and I don't mean only the A-bombs

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


1) you don't take into consideration the impact of the bombing of the German cities and industrial facilities by the Western Allies

2) you don't take into consideration the material support the US gave to the Soviet Union (their army would probably starve if it weren't for America - there was a severe famine in the Soviet Union in the years FOLLOWING the WW2 - but of course it wasn't just food that the US supplied to Russians)

3) you don't take into consideration the intelligence assistance the Western Allies gave Russians - in case of the Kursk battle which cost Germans so many resources and where they lost any strategic initiative, Russians knew about half a year in advance about the planned German operation thanks to the British codebreakers - as a result Russians had vast preparations in the area with as much as six lines of defences and thousands of tanks, planes and aritllery pieces deployed in the area

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


yes, PiS is not without the blame in this case - however they at least had the balls to stand up to the EU and impose an embargo on Ukranian stuff

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


you haven't included "Who feed and defend" - and who are facing bankruptcy thanks to the current government refusal to impose an embargo on Ukrainian agricultural products

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


most farmers and "peasants" vote for PiS now if you haven't noticed so far

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

you asked for it, pawian :) Ironside is simply too intelligent for you (even if he has dys..typia(?))

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [297]

about 70 per cent of adult Polish females oppose giving voting rights to minors (16-year-olds are minors in Poland) according to a recent poll

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


as far as public health care is concerned Britain is probably not worse, alas

News / Polish coal will be back [129]


just like johnnyreb said, renewables are not reliable (especially in Poland where winter can be harsh and usually there is very few sunny days during the time)

News / Polish coal will be back [129]


they are not really making money - they just pay slightly lower rates for electricity (like 20 per cent lower IIRC)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


I would go with this one, yes

Language / Interesting Polish tongue twister. [69]


you think right

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [940]

you should learn Czech names of the months - they are all quite poetic (though May is... kvieten in Czech (ie should be e with hacek actually but I can't be bothered :P)

(well some are the same or very similar to their Polish counterparts - like 3 or 4)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]


I don't know about rz spelling but sz and cz spelling was borrowed from certain medieval German conventions and the spelling was present also in Czech conventions before Hus's spelling reform - I'm not sure how Polish ż (neither rz) was spelled before Polish ortography was sort of codified during the Renaisance

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


USSR was most probably behind the attempt at killing pope John Paul the Second (early 80's if I recall correctly)


I wouldn't go as far as this - Russia had millions of soldiers (the Dnieper crossing disaster left little mark on their army), it was constantly supplied by the US (food, trucks, airplanes etc etc) especially after the Battle of Atlantic was won by the Allies in 1943

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]


not really afaik - Polish rz sounded more or less the same as now since the Renaisance - and Poles started appearing as part of the Russian society in numbers only after the partitions of Poland - the most probable date of Krzyżanowskis appearing in Russia is 19th century - I think this is may be just a Russian convention - confer Przewalski's surname (the same pattern)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]


yes - Torq gave examples (drżeć (to tremble among other meanings) or rżeć (to neigh))


from what I read Rokossowski personally saved a couple of Polish resistence members (after 1945) sentenced to death by the Polish communists

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]


never heard the story - sick indeed

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

jemu/jej/im(etc) się nie przelewa (sorry for spoiling your fun, pawian :P)

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


Górale dialect is very much cherished in Poland since the earliest times I'm aware of (late Gierek)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]


I learned about it not long ago - but Rokossovski was subjected to torture during the Stalinist purge of the Soviet army in the late 30's (the one that got Tukhachevsky killed) - he did not budge during the interrogations in the aftermath which he could not move one of his eyebrows until he died)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]

one Russian (with no previous ties to Poland) that was thoroughly revered in Poland was Sokrat Starynkiewicz who oversaw turning of Warsaw into a modern European city in the late 19th century -

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokrat_Starynkiewicz

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


only in June 1944 the Soviet Bagration operation started that mostly sealed the fate of the German east front - during Kursk (summer 1943) battle Russians suffered heavy losses and in the late 1943 they suffered a big setback in crossing the Dnieper (with half a million Soviet prisoners of war captured by Germans)


this (Soviet) empire was responsible for killing more than 20 million of their own people - so yeah: why not call it evil (not to mention scores of victims from other nations they subjugated during and after the WW2)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]


no, it isn't - the Russians heard two "zh's" in Krzyżanowski but saw an 'r' which is not pronounced in Polish because it is part of a digraph 'rz' which sounds exactly as Russian 'zh' (sorry for the lack of cyrillic)


no - it is what Russians make of the Polish surname Krzyżanowski (simples)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]


there is in the Russian rendering of the surname (same as in Przewalski surname)

History / Russian Greatness - and its Polish Contributors [76]


nonsense - and the zh (Polish ż) sound is not present in German (but present in English as in garage)

my guess German transliteration would be Kschischanowski

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


Silesians and Highlanders still say "my som" instead of "jesteśmy"

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


Polish "są" and French "sont" come from the same source (in ProtoIndoEuropean)