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!

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

...what a price to pay!!!! But a real good apology for losing, heh:)

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

....and it's hard to cling to the belief we are better than the rest when our Mannschaft plays like this! :)

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


*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...

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


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! :)

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

And? Your judgement? Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

....still....scary!

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

....I did put "your country" into quotation marks with purpose. Your answer really sounds like as when you see the US as your Heimat, I would answer that should the KGB come asking! ;)

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Would you?

Serious question.....if the KGB would contact you to help him....abit....nothing to difficult....just some posting here....a report back there.....stuff like that....to help "your country" to win this war....would you?

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


True dat.....Hitler was also hell for innocent Germans the world over!

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Na ja.....weren't they forcibly removed from their original settlements for being Germans by the Soviets....despite living in Russia for 300+ years?

I could imagin alot of bonds with the new Heimat had been destroyed during that time....

News / Poland is the new military power of Europe. [275]


Keep to your own people...We are Europeans ffs! (Even in the US, heh:)


That's why a bigger voice of socially conservative countries like Poland is so important....but that you only get when you give more...you can not only demand. That's why either more money, or more participation and yes more military for all leads to that bigger voice, that much bigger influence. Easy!

The new asylum compromise yesterday was an example how much more conservative govs can achieve together in Brussels!

News / Poland is the new military power of Europe. [275]

Berlin and Moscow?

....nice to have you back, Iron! :)

I doubt Berlin will side with China in the future conflict....Moscow?


Well....the EU at last seems to make progress in that regard with that new and quite change laws for asylum yesterday....the mood has changed greatly here.

....wrong thread I know....

News / Poland is the new military power of Europe. [275]

....the enemy should cry hearing it....not laughing.....

*runs*

News / Poland is the new military power of Europe. [275]


....that shows how quickly and drastically a used-to political situation can and will change....

And nobody can ignore the future conflict with China on the horizon....we might have still a few years left to prepare, but not many!