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Bratwurst Boy   
25 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Okay.....so our both languages seem to have two special features

Polish - to few vowels
German - to long words

Guys and gals.....it could be so much worse....long words without vowels! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

.....good question.....you know, as new research shows the Ur-Europeans (out of Africa) got the blue eyes and lighter skin/hair only quite recently, an evolutionary means to survive alot better in this colder and less sunny region.

So....just maybe....someone being more fair was more attractive to the girls back then and more sought to father their children because of better chances of survival???

Another theory is about the colors....like fair hair, eyes, skin and white clothes just stands for the "good", "clearness", the "light"...and dark means "night", mysterious, dangerous, murky...
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

.....na ja....there is this "Siegfried" - Gold.....with his blond curls whereas his adversary Hagen von Tronje (the much more interesting character of the two) was written as dark and broody....so....

It seems rather a european thing to do to make the "heroes" blond....not only a german thing....most Germans are brunettes, I believe...
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

After all, the textbooks/comics that we read reflected pretty accurately the events from our history.

The Pole the blond hero and the German the dark Mongol???

Now I too believe a common history book of our both peoples would met difficulties... :)
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung

It just flows....how can it not....with so many vowels....like a song! :)

But I agree....since our words can be stacked together there are some real long ones possible, like Lego.... heh:)

That's to beat:

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän

stacked words:

Donau
Dampf
Schiffahrt
Gesellschaft
Kapitän

Every word is fully functional on its own....but together they got famous (and still working efficiently)....that's GERMAN! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2023
Off-Topic / Terms of Russian Surrender [116]

Probably true....the Baltics and their russian minorities could be a pointer....there are problems but most of them stayed after all...
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Oh pleeeaaaase.....german is like the softest music.....and it has vowels! :)

I mean....seriously:

SZCZYZ - yeah thats a crazy polish male name, and it sounds as crazy as it looks.

How do you think THAT sounds on foreign ears, heh:)

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz :):):)
Bratwurst Boy   
24 Jun 2023
Off-Topic / Terms of Russian Surrender [116]

....out of Ukraine of course and negotiations about russian partake on the rebuilding....of course.

About the inner russian affairs not so much...Russia wouldn't be defeated and occupied after all.

More concerning will be the future about the pro-russian enclaves in Ukraine like Crimea. Kiev probably will take it all back and Russia has no longer the means or the will to stop anything.

Will there be unrest? Uprising? Big movements?
Bratwurst Boy   
23 Jun 2023
Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Also, notice how Aryan the Slavic warrior looks like

He looks like a Viking actually.....and we like a Mongol.....interesting!

But yeah....Vikings are cool! Who doesn't want to look like them! :)

Well, the Yiddish language

Na ja....since yiddish developed as a german dialect by Jews living in Germania for centuries it's not wonder.

...Yiddish was born in the Rhineland more than 900 years ago. A fusion of about 80 percent German and 20 percent Hebrew, it also has incorporated many words from the Romance and Slavic languages, and, in the last hundred years, from English....

...but I doubt that comic wanted to teach THAT.
Bratwurst Boy   
20 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

When push came to shove,

Not really if you think of "shoving Jews into gas chambers" as a good christian deed, after all Jews are non-Christians and actually guilty of the murder of Jesus!

It's all a matter of how to sell it, I fear! Anti-Semitism has been part of christian lives for centuries now.

I could think that a truly pagan Germany wouldn't had done that....not really interested in the christian-jewish bickering....suspicious, the both of them! ;)
Bratwurst Boy   
19 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

Now you are reduced

....if those doctors would come at least.....

How would you guarantee security for 🇵🇱?

That Iron Dome from Israel would do it, wouldn't it! But not before 2025.....

(IRON Dome....Iron, heh:)
Bratwurst Boy   
19 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

Industries look for cheap labour to raise their profits....in that case having a neighbour with cheaper labour costs is a rival for every high labour cost country....industries and jobs moving....

Something Poland will learn too in the case of Ukraine, should it become a member of the EU and open it's borders for people and goods!
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

have identified Russia's Putin

.....I guess that is Iron's problem here....two years back Poland and Germany DID have quite opposed policies concerning Russia's Putin...our "Wandel durch Handel" still full in swing, Nordstream being build...

Tac....it will take us YEARS to live that down, we have to accept that!

Interesting article about that cruel awakening:

welt.de/wirtschaft/plus237781839/Wandel-durch-Handel-Wie-Deutschland-der-epochale-Irrtum-trifft.html

Hopefully we learn the right lessons from that and don't repeat them anylonger with China....
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

@Lyzko

May I ask how many german aquaintances you have?

Because right now skilled craftsmen are hard to come by....especially cheap ones.....polish craftsmen would be very welcomed! And they could demand what they want!

(After all the german gov even wants to import them from far away places)

Compared to your past the Tutsi and Hutu have cordial relations.

That's what I'm saying.....so.....our current relationship is heavenly....something our ancestors couldn't even dream of....we should never forget that! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

I base this on my numerous conversations with German friends and acquaintances.

What exactly do they say?

Not exactly a profound indicator of great commonality.

Actually it is....if you compare that with our past a greater commonality we never had!
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

Poles are equally to blame in this "lack of interest" affair.

*nods*

But differently than Gruni seems to think it has from the german side nothing to do with a dislike of "Slavs"....nobody here (that I know of) thinks in racial dimensions at all...

I mean, Russians are also Slavs, right? And that german interest in them would make no sense if we are anti-Slavs generally...
Bratwurst Boy   
18 Jun 2023
History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

90% of German "tourists" limit their stay in Świnoujście to this "Polenmarkt".

Thing is these "tourists" are poor people who try to save a few Euros with bying things cheaper over the border than at home. They are and never will be your typical tourists, to busy with surving than interested in sight seeing. You can't blame them.

And it truly seems as if our countries are more interested in the "next" neighbour than the direct neighbour, in Polands case it's France and in Germany's case its Russia.

But hey, see it positive....neighbours don't have to be best friends, they rarely are...generally to much bad historical blood....not being enemies is alot. And in the case of Poland and Germany we must'n forget that we are together members of a huge enoconomical union and also of a huge military alliance....better it never has been between us in our both history....so....heads up! :)