Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


the name looks perfectly Polish and does not show any sings of Americanization - -ski (and -ska which is the female variety of the same ending) is in this case a toponymic ending - it means that the person had some ties with a place called Korytków or Korytkowo - this kind of surname formation was typical for nobility but not exclusive to nobility though - nobility formed a large part of the population of Poland though (up to 10 per cent) and many of them had nothing but the noble title

the place name Korytków (or Korytkowo) in turn is a formation from a personal nickname (like Adamsville) - the nickname was Korytko - which means little trough

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


you are as Polish as my dog Harry - my dog understands some Polish

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


what was newsworthy about the demonstration - there were demonstrations before and nothing happened
for me they could march every weekend 0 it doesn't matter

and well Kaczyński on czat is much more newsworthy to me

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


a completely confused human being

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

as you probably know you can't buy Kaczyński - Frasyniuk got hold of enormous amounts of cash for a previous opposition activist in the early nineties which allowed him to start a big transport firm - how? where did he get money from?

he was very outspoken against lustracja - maybe there is a reason for this

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


Frasyniuk is quite a shady persona - no one knows where his money early in the nineties came from

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

that is coming from a guy who would always say PiS are not going to win the majority in Sejm

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


you live in some parallel universe Delphi - if Orban is close to anybody it is rather Putin then Merkel

Love / Polish - Pakistani relationship. How it works in reality? Are Pakistanis a good men? [85]


Sikh religion clearly states that men are equal to women

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


have you read the article I posted - its lengthy but worth reading - and yes the article says there is a lot of VAT abuse in Poland

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


the article does not explain anything of that kind

polskieradio.pl/42/4393/Artykul/1542599,Nowa-ustawa-o-VAT-ma-uszczelnic-system-podatkowy-Ale-czy-ulatwi-rozliczanie

this article explains a lot about the VAT problem - except for why PiS suspended the introduction of a new VAT law (the article is not so recent)

Love / Recommendations for live wedding bands in different cities in Poland. [36]


Nowy Wiśnicz is near Kraków (Cracow) so you should have no problem finding a wedding band, photographers and especially translators

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


yes, you look very Polish

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

sorry Ironside but with such personal attacks it's you who proves to be more of a dickhead

Genealogy / Polish surnames of Hungarian / Ruthenian / Rusyn origin [14]

I studied together with a girl whose surname was Sabo (pronounced Szabo/Shabo) it is a Hungarian surname afaik

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


Polsat is actually not that bad - they have a couple of quite objective journalists there like say Dorota Gawryluk (some are though quite biased)

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


which means which Lyzko - is 'in a trip' w podróży? what does 'on a trip' mean if so?

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

be precise for once ok?

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

where in the media? is the current goverment limiting free press? how?

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

I just had a look at Gazeta.pl - I rarely do as opposed to interia wp.pl and onet (in my opinion interia.pl is best) - and no it does not differ much from the portals mentioned in the previous sentence - their topic of the day was Where to eat pierogies today?

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

it is all but secondary, my friend

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

which research? must have been TVP own :P

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]


Gazeta.pl portal is fourth among big news portas in Poland after wp.pl , onet.pl and interia.pl - it has a good couple of million views less monthly than the three latter portals

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


I don't think you are right - a native speaker has every right to say their English is better than that of a foreing learner - and no Lyzko is not a patronising individual - he is somewhat snobbish about langauge but I thinks this more or less comes naturally with greater elloquence

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

yeah Gazeta Wyborcza's circulation is around 100 thousand daily - I wouldn't call it many in the scale of a 40 million country Newsweek is not better and it's weekly

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


interpreting constitution differently than the PO yes - but it is open to interpretation


which neighbours and how?


the state media were willing supporters of the previous government - their propaganda tube - I don't call it objective or even independent media

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


they haven't done anything serious so far - maybe just sit and wait and don't judge beforehand

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


and well I am always open for native speakers to correct me - but most here don't bother to :P

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

well the average Polish person's English is not very good Chemikiem and people really often overestimate their language abilities in English - what I believe is Lyzko falls into a trap of switching to Polish when he sees that communication in English is somehow not fluent or hampered but he doesn't notice that him trying to speak Polish is equally awkward to Polish ears as Poles trying to communicate in English with him (I think he overestimates his Polish proficiency as well) - having said that English is a strange beast - it seems easy because you can easily start to communicate in it but to speak it well demands a lot of learning and excercise - I for once haven't mastered English so far - perhaps I am on advanced level (I hold the CAE) but I'm very far from proficiency

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


as usual you only see one side of the coin - I assure you that PiS opponents use a very malicious and often primitive abuse forms on PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński and their supporters - and no this is nothing new it started with the anit-PiS media campaign in 2005