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Posts by Lyzko  

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Lyzko   
11 Feb 2023
Life / Polish mentality towards Pakistan [108]

As a native New Yorker, I'm so used to it by now that when I first visited Germany (long before visiting Poland or Sweden), my eyes needed a chance to adjust to all the sea of white, often Nordic-looking, faces.
Lyzko   
10 Feb 2023
Life / Polish mentality towards Pakistan [108]

Doesn't that sound a little bit like saying
"I'm not antagonistic to him! I hate is guts,
but I'm not antagonistic to him."?

Being racist MEANS precisely the following; feeling
hostile to those who don't belong to the Caucasian
race.

Quite sure you understand the word?
Lyzko   
10 Feb 2023
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [245]

Poles frequently omit articles and sometimes will
overcompensate for unfamiliarity with English, by
speaking in a loud, deliberate manner.

However in private many will actually internalize
correction and respond to corrective recast by a
native English speaking interlocutor.
Lyzko   
7 Feb 2023
Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [417]

No one can effectively judge the nature of my experiences in the classroom! What was described happened precisely as it was and without exaggeration, believe it as you wish. Read the autobiography of pola Negri.
Lyzko   
6 Feb 2023
Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [417]

In my experience, Poles can frequently become highly emotional to the point of tears, misting up unabashedly if they sense their nation, history or character has been impugned, especially by foreigners!

Need I re-quote my story about an ESL class exclusively of Poles I was teaching, starting to tear up as the subject of "POLISH Concentration Camps" from the NYT was broached by one angry student? Within about five minutes from the start of a young lady's presentation (coincidentally on the natural wonders of Poland), the group became so upset we couldn't continue the lesson and needed a five minute break so that the students could compose themselves.

Other nationalities, Israelis, German, French, Brits etc. would have reacted with either fiery words, fisticuffs, uncomfortable laughter, but scarcely by crying.
Lyzko   
6 Feb 2023
History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

What I meant was that what you posted sounds like a rationalization bordering on an excuse.
However, you seem like a basically enlightened person, and so it's possible that you are simply trying to give Moscicki the benefit of the doubt:-)
Lyzko   
6 Feb 2023
Law / I am pregnant but the father is now ghosting me [17]

Ghosting you??
Do you perhaps mean "pursuing" you?
Unless of course the father is dead,
in which case probably a psychic specialist
would be more what you need!
Lyzko   
5 Feb 2023
History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

...and following this line of reasoning neither were most anti-Semites "at heart"; they simply mouthed the filth so that they could fit in and enjoy the benefits of the belonging to the status quo, is that it?

You'll have to do a little better than that, old man!
Lyzko   
4 Feb 2023
History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

Revisionism unfortunately is alive and well and living in the Sejm! Duda along with his cohorts, much like our Institute for Historical Reivew, founded decades ago by James Marcellus, has attempted (unsucessfully, I might add) to subvert truth in the name of a political agenda.

In point of fact, Poland, to her lasting credit, had the largest single Nazi resistance movement in Europe, rivalling France and Norway. Moreover, numerous gentile Poles willingly put their own lives as well as those of their families, at risk in order to save Jewish fellow citizens. Lots lost their lives, others survived and continue to tell the truth, for which they should be forever in our debt.

These are historical facts, proven truths which cannot be whitewashed or denied, facts of which every Polish Christian should be fiercely proud.

However, as in nearly every European country, Poland too had her share of anti-semitic sympathizers such as Dmowski, later Mosicki, while at the same time excoriating Hitler.

We all have skeletons in our closet, be they those of slavery, race massacres right here in the US or Holocaust denial along with other atrocities throughout the world.
Lyzko   
31 Jan 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]

Makes perfect sense, Maf!
As I've always maintained, having grown up bilingual; English looks easy at first and gets tough as hell eventually.
German is the opposite:-)
Lyzko   
30 Jan 2023
Travel / Bilingual signs and notices all over Poland [20]

Nearly every town, certainly larger city, in Poland had historically both a German right alongside a Polish name. Perhaps these days, your Westermann Atlas gives both names, but when I was first in Germany during the mid-'80's, "SZCZECIN" was always listed as "STETTIN" and nothing else:-)

I'm sure that's changed.
Lyzko   
30 Jan 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]

In addition, as I've observed often times on this forum, Poles for examplemay bemoan their having to study German, nonetheless, those many Poles whom I've met over the years speak far better German as a second language than English!!

English may well be considered "cooler" than German, however, the quality of written German among those Poles I've known, exceeds their abilities in written English by a country mile:-)
Lyzko   
29 Jan 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]

@Lernende,
For that reason German remains immensely practical throughout much of Eastern Europe, including Hungary, as it was the erstwhile language which united East with West, even in pre-Communist times:-)
Lyzko   
28 Jan 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]

@Lernende,
I found that German got me quite far in at least several major Hungarian metropoli such as Budapeszt and Debrecen when my Hungarian failed me:-)
Lyzko   
28 Jan 2023
Language / Test to determine proficiency of Polish? [7]

As a life-long Polish learner, I'd have to concur roundly with Lernende!
Trying to recall an equivalent body in Poland of the Academie Francaise, the DUDEN- Gesellschaft or the Instituto Cervantes.
Lyzko   
25 Jan 2023
Life / Finally, wife acquitted after killing her abusive husband [22]

Domestic abuse, as in many countries (including of course the US!), has long been downplayed, making the abuse somehow the woman's instead of the man's, fault.

High time that Poland Supreme Court finally stepped up to the plate and acknowledged the problem and how to effectively deal with it.

Pity that here in America, even in such liberal bastions as New York City, all too many judges still take the man's side in such cases, e.g. Meehan vs. Meehan on Staten Island some twenty years ago. In the latter instance, the judge decided against the poor housewife, accused of shooting her long physically and verbally abusive policeman husband, and pronounced an unusually stiff prison sentence!

Apparently self-defense was not an option.