Travel / What do people think about German people in Poland? [25]

Yeah.... I have to wonder about that too....usually we Germans LOVE our Italians....and Italy for the holidays....and italian food....and italian pop music....and the italian language...and and and....! :)

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

Not a "band" but a "project"....yeah....german....catchy! :)

Off-Topic / Poland - The U.S.A. of Europe [20]


Germans always loved their Indians....Karl May is a famous hero here....the "edlen Wilden"....we just love them! :)

Off-Topic / Poland - The U.S.A. of Europe [20]


.....damn! I wanted to see that....

History / Poland and World War 2 -- Many history books prior to the wars end [37]

Serious question....imagine the situation reversed, would you blame Poles too and call the civilians sleeper agents?

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! :)

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

....this too! :)

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...

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...

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]


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... :)

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

.....hmmm.....interesting....together with those comics of yours it seems as if Poles got educated to hate Germans and everything german, right?

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Wahrscheinlichkeit
+
Rechnung

:)

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

...yeah....and it doesn't work so well....it really looks very "made"......just for the length of it, not that good.

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Is there a polish translation for "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän" possible?

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]


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:


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! :)

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

....that's the reason Germans became "Niemcy"....after all, they couldn't speak this language...they needed more vowels! :)

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Genau! :)

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...

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 :):):)

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?

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]


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! :)


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.

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

.....you just need a few more vowels! :)

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]


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! ;)

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]


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


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

(IRON Dome....Iron, heh:)

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!

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]


.....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....

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

*nods*

And this time living in the border region would become an advantage....who knows, the whole border region would profit and flourish!

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]

....ask them again about our "Fachkräftemangel" and you could be surprised! ;)

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)


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! :)

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]


What exactly do they say?


Actually it is....if you compare that with our past a greater commonality we never had!