News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Yes, I do. This is because 'nie' refers here to the verb 'jest' which is not present, but must be assumed in this sentence. Notice that when the sentence is made in the form 'To jest nieprawda', the rule 'nie+noun should be written together' is still observed here..

Stick to the topic please

News / Mieszkania Plus programme - PiS fulfills yet another campaign promise [50]


I believe this is a collective name for a certain group of posters who deny all the prospective good that may arise from deeds attempted by PiS to fullfil their electorate promises.


I believe this reflects your outrage at the behaviour of the aforementioned group. If this is the case, I believe you will be exempted from charges of 'passive aggression' or being a 'devil's advocate'.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

He wouldn't stand out in Poland, or maybe a little bit as there's also something rather un-Polish about his looks.

Funny he looks Polish in America, but would not look so typically Polish in Poland in my view. Btw, a long time ago when there were hardly any Polish people walking in the streets of London, I was approached in London by a certain non-white man who told me I was Polish (I didn't utter a word that could potentially identify me as a non-English even if my accent at that time was fairly close to the one of a native speaker). When I exclaimed - 'How did you know?', he said - 'By the look of your eyes' or something like that.

Amazing, wasn't it? That means there is something in our looks that can give us away. Roz, do you perhaps know what sort of haplogroups Mick Jagger carries in his genome?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Polo, I am obliged to remind you that 'nieprawda' must be written together.

Language / How to correctly pronounce "złoty" in Polish? "ł" letter [17]

Pronounce it as 'zwoty' (złoty) as this is the right pronounciation.

I remember once in England an Englishman asked me "How do you pronounce 'ł' in Polish?". It was a joke as he could pronounce the Polish " ł " perfectly well. It is the same sound as the sound for 'w' in the English word 'well'.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


This is a totally absurd assumption.


The currency loosing 4% of its value in a quarter is not a 'total disaster'. It is not even a 'disaster'.

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Why do you think that Międzyrzec Podlaski would also be germanized as "Meseritz"?


If you put the scan of this marriage certificate, it would help perhaps.

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

This 'Meseritz' is most probably the town "Międzyrzec", now in Lubuskie voivodship. Międzyrzec was Polish until 1793, but then became Prussian in the result of the second partition of Poland. It continued to be Prussian after the WWI, however, even if the most part of the Wielkopolska province became Polish again.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


The moral of this story is that PiS are giving away money to large sections of the electorate. There is nothing wrong with it really given that the Polish state has never been as generous as the countries of the 'rotten' West. The problem that may arise - and this is not going to happen this present year - is whether the money is sufficient to cover expenses so generously promised by this party before the election of 2015. And it is in 2017 that the real test comes forth. When the government passes this test, then you may rightly say such a policy was in accordance with the pulse of the Polish nation.

Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]

What I meant regarding your comment on Wyborcza and Rzecz is that you came here for trolling as it was obvious you never read those papers. The only question is when you get bored with your trolling.

Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]


Neither WYBORCZA nor RZECZPOSPOLITA describe Arabs as a punch of animals coming to kill and rape women.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Rumour has it wrong.

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]


This is utterly sensational news. Can you point to any source?


I have always thought the birthplace of Poland was Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) and not Silesia. At the death of the first Piast ruler, Mieszko I (992), the borders of Poland were roughly the same as today.


It actually started quite a time before the Mongol invasion of 1241.

Genealogy / Looking for an old region/town/providence in Poland [8]

Did you mean 'providence' or 'province' in your heading? This name seems to be the name of the region around Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), formerly the capital of the Tarnopol voivodship (province) in 1921-1939. To call an area (region) with the name of the city plus the '-szczyzna' suffix is common in Polish.

You have 'Lubelszczyzna' (Lublin), 'Opolszczyzna' (Opole), 'Wileńszczyzna' (Wilno), 'Kieleczczyzna' (Kielce), Pińszczyzna (Pińsk) and so on. The term 'Tarnopolszczyzna' (Tarnopol) is formed on the same basis. You will, however, never have 'Warszawszczyzna' (Warszawa), 'Wrocławszczyzna' (Wrocław), 'Krakowszczyzna' (Kraków) or 'Gdańszczyzna' (Gdańsk) and so on.

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Most probably Dębno in gmina Stęszew, 19 km south-west of Poznań (Posen). At the end of the 19th century, the village had 15 farmsteads with 173 inhabitants of which 161 declared themselves as Catholics.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


This is it! This concept is quite old and goes back to mediaeval ages. The weak point is that there are so many nations and relatively small coutries in that area, so they are a natural area for the domination of Russia or Germany.

If in the past the Polabian Slavs formed a unified country, the history of Central and Eastern Europe could have been very different. The three countries of Western Slavs: Poland, Czechia and Polabia would have been a real stronghold agaisnt the German "Drang nach Osten". The Polabian Slavs were military very strong and only in the result of united efforts of several Western countries they were finally defeated.

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

Don't you know that Arabs of the Iberian peninsula along with indigenous polpulations converted to Islam were forcibly expelled by the Christians who won the big battle with Islam, often in most non-humanitarian ways?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


This sentence is only an empty piece of Harryesque propaganda. Everyone who is elected president of Poland has to leave his party being sworn into office. The same rule applied to former president Komorowski who wasn't told to leave PO by the Dear Leader Chairman Donald Tusk except that Haryesque propaganda said nothing of the kind about that cat Komorowski.

Life / Warsaw is a difficult city to adjust to (coming from Canada and having lived in South Africa) Prague? [46]


By what standard is Szczecin a larger city than Prague?

Life / Warsaw is a difficult city to adjust to (coming from Canada and having lived in South Africa) Prague? [46]


Neither does it revolve around Prague and Česko.

Life / Warsaw is a difficult city to adjust to (coming from Canada and having lived in South Africa) Prague? [46]


"Czechia" hasn't been formally adopted by the UN yet, so it is still 'Czech Republic".

Anyway, for the Poles and the Czechs such a name is nothing new: Czechy and Česko. Mluvite cesky, nothanks?


He is a (flying) Scotsman living in Poland

Life / Warsaw is a difficult city to adjust to (coming from Canada and having lived in South Africa) Prague? [46]


Indded, Warsaw has only two metro lines, but do you suggest that Warsaw has no trams and buses whatsoever?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Your choice of words here is very careful and very reckless at the same time ...

News / Balcerowicz - PO trojan horse in Ukrainian government [11]

If Balcerowicz didn't do that in Poland and if it were Ukraine which had their own Balcerowicz at that time, we might have been in a position to borrow their "Balcerowicz" from them in 2016.

Unfortunately enough, they didn't have a Balcerowicz in the year 1990.

News / The Leningrad Amber room finally found in Poland? [11]

The Daily Maily was very excited about the "golden train", now that they've found another "golden ****" to be excited about, we may expect the outcome of this could be equally fruitful.

History / Poland's Baptism 1050th anniversary -- a return to sanity? [13]

Tonight is the 16th of April, so Polo is mistaken on the date, the film is shown tonight, This film is the third in the series on the roots of the Polish state. The former two were really good, in my view, so this one is likely to be as well. We know nolthing about Mieszko's motives for the baptism. Even the year 966 is not certain, but it is the most likely. Sources mention no exact day or month of the Baptism, so the 14th of April is pure speculation. The place where the Baptism took place is unknown, but the most probable are Poznań or Ostrów Lednicki or Gniezno.

Mieszko had been known under a different name before being baptized, but we don't know what name it was.

History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]

Indeed, scietific data show that some people who were killed during the enormous Bronze Age battle on the Tollense (slavic: Dołęża or Tolęża) river in Mecklemburg-Vorpommern in 1,250 BC had the same DNA as contemporary Poles (also the DNA of contempiorary Dutch and Southern Europeans was identified as well). More data of tghis discovery will be coming in future as this discovery was made only as recently as in the 1990s, so samples are still analysed.

Genealogy / Are Sorbs Polish? Does anyone know about Sorbish enthnicity? [62]


Indeed, it wouldn't and there hadn't been any historic reasons for such a bizzare shape as the one suggested by Delph.


This wouldn't have been so sure at all. Remember that not everyone in Europe was "amused" with the prospective re-unification of Germany in the result of the fall of the Berlin wall. British prime minister Margaret Thacher had been strongly against it to the very last moment. And there also were people in the DDR itself who advocated for Eastern Germany to remain a separate state without joining the Bundesrepublik Deustchland. So a Sorbian-Silesian State, if it existed, would have stood even more chance not to have been swallowed by the "Big Prosperous Germany".

A better idea would have been perhaps to create an independent Silesian State. Such an idea emerged in the First World War, but as far as I remember, either France or Britain was very much against it. Thus the German-speaking Silesians wouldn't have been deported to the left bank of the river Oder after the WWII. But they had been and many of them as a result settled in Lusatia, in some parts "watering down" considerably the existing Sorbian indigenous populations. I once viewed a program of the Sorbian TV (available on-line) in which one old man was explaing that he was the last living Sorbian man of that village of Upper Lusatia whereas shortly after the end of the WWII the entire village was inhabitated almost by Sorbian people with - I suppose - hardly anyone of them in the village ever wanting to speak German between themselves. Amazing, isn't it?

Btw, I've heard of one Sorbian family living in a small Polish town near Zgorzelec/Goerlitz who were allowed to stay on the Polish side of the border because they were native Slavic (not Polish, however) people. It is worth remembering the the proper historic border between Silesia and Lusatia isn't the river Nysa (Neisse), but the river Queis (Kwisa), so for example of the two villages of Nawojów on both sides of the river Kwisa today, one is Nawojów Śląski, the other is Nawojów Łużycki.

History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]


I don't get it, Szaława. Persia changed its official name to "Iran" in 1935. I thought the Afghans and Pushtu were always different to Persians, though sometimes annexed by them. Also the Afghans at one time conquered Persia, so why do you say Persia includes the Afghan people. Poland was annexed by Russia in the past, but this doesn't mean Russia includes the Polish people.

History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]


What's the difference between Persia and Iran?