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gumishu   
1 Dec 2017
News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

this is a very bad move in my opinion - the bloody Duck should have given it to the Kijowski fundraisers - after all he destroyed this crystalline fighter for democracy - Kijowski has no means to support himself now cause he can't find a job in this corrupt mafia-style PiS run country - oh well he can't find a job that pays 8000 PLN net at least
gumishu   
1 Dec 2017
News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

He should retreat from politics in his present state of mind - she added.

I think Staniszkis should retire to be honest with her present state of mind

hahaha you are posting wp.pl poll as a reliable source of public opinion - Ziemowit I thought more highly of you

I bet the 'total' opposition would score at least 80 per cent in their polls as well - now compare it to the polls conducted on random sets of Poles like polling agencies do
gumishu   
1 Dec 2017
News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

@terri

do you have the same concerns for Germany terri or just for Poland - just curious - and no, no changes are irreversible - if there is big public pressure to bring trade back on Sundays PiS will probably give in - similar thing happened in Hungary - however your concerns for the state revenues or inflation are greatly exaggerated - People will still buy things they need on other days of the week - the income tax on supermarket emloyees as a revenue for the state is negligible for Poland's budget
gumishu   
17 Nov 2017
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Out of curiousity What makes PUCYKOWICZ Polish in origin and not Belarusian or Russian?

Pucykowicz can well be Belarusian in origin - however higher levels of Belarusian society (mostly nobility) polonized during the times of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
gumishu   
16 Nov 2017
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

I always thought surnames ending in kowicz were from the kresy region and more Russian/Belarusian/Ukrainian than Polish. Is that true?

yes it's true - the old Polish had an equivalent to this in the form of -owic ( i.e with a 'c' sound not a 'cz' sound) - it is fossilised in a very common type of place names - Katowice, Gliwice, Skierniewice and tons of others (-owice suffix was plural of - owic)
gumishu   
11 Nov 2017
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Wierzbicki - Wierzbica, Wierzbice - there are multiple place names like this in Poland
Drzewiecki - Drzewce, Drzewki - multipe as well
Radecki - Radecz - there is only one place name in present day Poland like that, and that is in Lower Silesia - many Polish surnames were however formed from localities in present day Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania
gumishu   
31 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

I can't think of any government in the developed world more focused on redistribution

I don't how you measure it but in absolute figures current redistribution programmes in Poland pale in comparison to most western Europe
gumishu   
28 Oct 2017
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

The name may be derived from the estate Swiecice

you have an answer in your own question - Święcicki simply means from Święcice or of Święcice - surnames of that type were common for nobility ( a contraction of pan Święcicki in your case (the lord of Święcice)) but were not restricted to nobility (in later times when peasants were given (or adopted) surnames some ended up with surnames of that type) - if you have family records you can probably establish if your family had noble roots

the place name Święcice is not an unusual one and there may be a good couple of places named so in Poland and therefore there could have been several unrelated families bearing the surname (hence the mention of the surname in conection with various coats of arms).

as for Baltic ancestry - hmm I am not sure about it but it is quite probable that the whole north of Masovia has a Baltic genetic substratum (i.e. that there were a significant number of Slavicized Balts living in the area dating back to the migration of Slavs) - another possibility is the flux of genes because of frequent warfare including taking slaves and hostages between Prussians, Yotvingians and Polish Masovians with raids on both sides of the border - another possibility is that some splinter fraction of Prussians or Yotvingians seeked shelter on the Masovian side after the conquest of first Prussia then Yotvingia by the Teutonic knights (they would have been required to adopt christianity in that case)
gumishu   
18 Oct 2017
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

Rivers where highways in those times.

you need boats for rivers - how do you carry a boat when you travel from one river basin to another - Moravia is neither in Odra nor Vistula basin you know - and guess what travel from say Wrocław to Gniezno would last equally long on horse as using rivers - this is geography for you
gumishu   
18 Oct 2017
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

The similarity of their names is a coincidence.

the similarity of the names of Polish Polans and Kievan Polans is not a coincidence - there were several Slavic tribes that split in the time of Slavic expansion - including Serbs, Croats, Volhynians and Golędzians/Galindians - some of the tribes were not even originally Slavic but took part in the Slavic migrations
gumishu   
17 Oct 2017
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

St Wojciech was killed in the 10th century

I am fully aware of that - what I am saying is there were attempts at peaceful christianisation of the Prussians - and they were met with violence from them, so one day a neighbouring Polish prince got an idea which looked smart to him to invite a knightly monastic order to christianise Prussians by force and potentially subjugate them for his principality - we all know how it turned out
gumishu   
17 Oct 2017
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

Still there were enough pagans there to claim that.

you may not be aware of that but Prussians were not Poles, neither Slavs - and they rejected peaceful christianisation quite violently (see saint Wojciech aka Adalbert case) - it was Konrad's ambition to conquer Prussians (and possibly Jotvingians - also not Slavs and pagans) - but it was also a measure of trying to at least getting them not to raid Masovia - especially Jotvingians' raids were quite devastating
gumishu   
17 Oct 2017
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

well in 1226 Konrad Mazowiecki thought it stull was a good idea to invite the Teutonic Knights to spread Christianity here.

Kondrad Mazowiecki invited Teutonic Knights and gave them Ziemia Dobrzyńska to use them to conquer pagan Prussia for himself and his Masovian lineage - it turned out the Knights had other plans and conquered pagan Prusians for themselves and created their own state there
gumishu   
24 Sep 2017
News / Charles Crawford on PiS just after the 2015 election [28]

. Both Szydlo and Kaczynski supported it.

as far as I know Kaczyński doesn't support a ban on abortion when the pregnancy is a result of a rape or when the pregnancy endangers the life or health of the mother - but you may think otherwise - it doesn't hurt instantly to be brainwashed you know

and I guess you are a supporter of abortion being legal in all instances as if it is somehow women's right - sorry to disappoint according to the polls most Poles don't share your view
gumishu   
22 Sep 2017
News / Charles Crawford on PiS just after the 2015 election [28]

maybe it's not the most decent thing to do - but how is that different to what PO and PSL did

and beware it is still not counting in billions - like the sound screens against empty fields along the A2 motorway erected during the time of PO just to mention one thing from the top of my head
gumishu   
22 Sep 2017
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]

Właśnie otwarliśmy nowe luksusowe spa w Warszawie. By spopularyzować to miejsce, rozdajemy 100 voucherów o wartości 3000 złotych dla pierwszych 100-u osób, które zaakceptują naszą prośbę o dodanie do znajomych.
gumishu   
22 Sep 2017
News / Charles Crawford on PiS just after the 2015 election [28]

i surely know the abbreviation - I was asking cms what is using PiS more TKM than (is it proper English what I just wrote - I mean can you end a sentence with than? ) ;)

btw Ziemowit what are you views on the right to abort fetuses with a diagnosed Down syndrome
gumishu   
22 Sep 2017
News / Charles Crawford on PiS just after the 2015 election [28]

Their MO is more TKM

more than what

treating the shareholders of state companies money as their own.

examples?

do you compare some tens of millions granted for whatever reason to Radio Maryja (Fakt managed to document less then 30 million of these here fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/dotacje-dla-rydzyka-pieniadze-ojca-rydzyka/7xnh2j7 - with billions spent on pointless advertising campaigns in PO-friendly media by the previous government

the total ban on abortion project was not the initiative of the leadership of the party and it never made it past first reading in the parliament if I recall correctly - I doubt PiS would adopt it without alterations

what does have Dezubekizacja to do with a square deal for pensioners and state employees