History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

What I meant was that what you posted sounds like a rationalization bordering on an excuse.
However, you seem like a basically enlightened person, and so it's possible that you are simply trying to give Moscicki the benefit of the doubt:-)

Law / I am pregnant but the father is now ghosting me [17]

Ghosting you??
Do you perhaps mean "pursuing" you?
Unless of course the father is dead,
in which case probably a psychic specialist
would be more what you need!

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

...and following this line of reasoning neither were most anti-Semites "at heart"; they simply mouthed the filth so that they could fit in and enjoy the benefits of the belonging to the status quo, is that it?

You'll have to do a little better than that, old man!

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

@Kaszub, ck. out Dmowski's essay "Kwestia Zydowska" and then get back to me, as I think you'll have already answered your own question!

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

"Ignacy" = Ignatius aka St. Ignatius, hardly Jewish:-)

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]

Revisionism unfortunately is alive and well and living in the Sejm! Duda along with his cohorts, much like our Institute for Historical Reivew, founded decades ago by James Marcellus, has attempted (unsucessfully, I might add) to subvert truth in the name of a political agenda.

In point of fact, Poland, to her lasting credit, had the largest single Nazi resistance movement in Europe, rivalling France and Norway. Moreover, numerous gentile Poles willingly put their own lives as well as those of their families, at risk in order to save Jewish fellow citizens. Lots lost their lives, others survived and continue to tell the truth, for which they should be forever in our debt.

These are historical facts, proven truths which cannot be whitewashed or denied, facts of which every Polish Christian should be fiercely proud.

However, as in nearly every European country, Poland too had her share of anti-semitic sympathizers such as Dmowski, later Mosicki, while at the same time excoriating Hitler.

We all have skeletons in our closet, be they those of slavery, race massacres right here in the US or Holocaust denial along with other atrocities throughout the world.

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]

Makes perfect sense, Maf!
As I've always maintained, having grown up bilingual; English looks easy at first and gets tough as hell eventually.
German is the opposite:-)

Travel / Bilingual signs and notices all over Poland [20]

Today, I'd imagine that both versions appear in German atlases.

Travel / Bilingual signs and notices all over Poland [20]

Nearly every town, certainly larger city, in Poland had historically both a German right alongside a Polish name. Perhaps these days, your Westermann Atlas gives both names, but when I was first in Germany during the mid-'80's, "SZCZECIN" was always listed as "STETTIN" and nothing else:-)

I'm sure that's changed.

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]

In addition, as I've observed often times on this forum, Poles for examplemay bemoan their having to study German, nonetheless, those many Poles whom I've met over the years speak far better German as a second language than English!!

English may well be considered "cooler" than German, however, the quality of written German among those Poles I've known, exceeds their abilities in written English by a country mile:-)

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]

@Lernende,
For that reason German remains immensely practical throughout much of Eastern Europe, including Hungary, as it was the erstwhile language which united East with West, even in pre-Communist times:-)

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

Precisely! No one is or was entirely blameless sure

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]

I agree

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]

@Lernende,
I found that German got me quite far in at least several major Hungarian metropoli such as Budapeszt and Debrecen when my Hungarian failed me:-)

Language / Test to determine proficiency of Polish? [7]

As a life-long Polish learner, I'd have to concur roundly with Lernende!
Trying to recall an equivalent body in Poland of the Academie Francaise, the DUDEN- Gesellschaft or the Instituto Cervantes.

Life / Finally, wife acquitted after killing her abusive husband [22]

Where though? In Poland or in the States? You folks in Europe are based on Napoleonic, we on British Common Law and therein lies the crucial difference between our respective legal systems:-)

Life / Finally, wife acquitted after killing her abusive husband [22]

Domestic abuse, as in many countries (including of course the US!), has long been downplayed, making the abuse somehow the woman's instead of the man's, fault.

High time that Poland Supreme Court finally stepped up to the plate and acknowledged the problem and how to effectively deal with it.

Pity that here in America, even in such liberal bastions as New York City, all too many judges still take the man's side in such cases, e.g. Meehan vs. Meehan on Staten Island some twenty years ago. In the latter instance, the judge decided against the poor housewife, accused of shooting her long physically and verbally abusive policeman husband, and pronounced an unusually stiff prison sentence!

Apparently self-defense was not an option.

Travel / Bilingual signs and notices all over Poland [20]

Any longer, you mean!
Of course not. I'm only referring here to historical place names:-)

Travel / Bilingual signs and notices all over Poland [20]

.....Torun/Thorn, Chorzow/Koenigshuette, Zielona Gora/Gruenberg........

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

@Maf,
In the US, that mind-numbing "grammar-translation" method for teaching foreign languages was still in full force until at least the late '70's! By the time I arrived on the college scene during the early '80's, instructors had for the most part smartened up to the fact that if Americans are ever going to learn a foreign language with the superficial facility of their European counterparts, foreign language programs, starting in high school, are going to have to insist on TARGET language materials in the classroom.

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

Not sure though if teachers of Polish in primary schools in Poland teach cases as first, second, third, fourth...cases.
If so, then listing the cases in a different order might bugger up the original order!

Travel / Bilingual signs and notices all over Poland [20]

Their dialect though is kinda cute!

Standard Polish goral gwara
zegar godzinnek
etc.

Travel / Bilingual signs and notices all over Poland [20]

Wonder whether or not in Zakopane signage reflects similar bilingualism among the goral (mountaineers) vs. standard Polish.

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

@Ziemowit,
The Latin case order Nom. Gen. Dat. Acc. is identical in all European languages which require said declension:-)

Only US textbooks for certain languages disregard the original order.

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

Agreed with the latter comment

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

No brainer, Maf!
Always found it so counterintuitive for ESL instructor colleagues of mine to actually "teach grammar rules" to their beginning and intermediate learners.

Unless visual diagrams, preferrably using colours, are presented to the learner in an organically child-like fashion, it'll go over them like a wave.

Travel / Bilingual signs and notices all over Poland [20]

Perfectly reasonable. How about Gorlice/Goerlitz, Jasna Gora/Hellberg etc.?

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

There's of course also the school of thinking, equally legitimate as a language teacher, I must say, which states that grammar as such doesn't exist! Human learners don't learn grammar, they learn (as you say) instinctively.

A colleague of mine insists that grammar is SOLELY for teachers, rather than learners, of language:-)

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

Poles I met would actually claim they had no accent.

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]

This also readily explains why Poles, as with certain other European English speakers, tend to to have an "English accent" when they speak English, at the least the more educated:-)