News / The quality of Polish media coverage [50]

you have definitely misunderstood Varsovian - explosives on the plane and TNT on the wreckage can be two different things

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


Chałupowski with Ch pronounced like 'H' and ł (pronounced as 'w')

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


maybe you are right - but to me it is perfectly clear that our monarchs have lead to the disasters that befell Poland

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

the whole idea that we had to have kings was a bad idea - Saxon dynasty in Poland was one huge mistake - and Leszczyński kingship was good - why they didn't come up with a president-like figure for government serving terms and not lifelong rule is beyond me? - many follies of our so called kings could have been avoided this way

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

Dembińska is a place-name derived surname - the place name is probably Dembiny or Dembina which is a non-standard form of 'dębina'/'dębiny'

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

don't say Sigismund Vasa didn't have ambitions in relation to the Russian throne and that the Swedish-Russian alliance was due to the dynastic policies of the mentioned Sigismund Vasa (regaining the control of the Swedish crown)

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


it was the Sigismund Vasa policy making - he wanted to plant his son a tsar of Russia we have paid dearly for his ambition because the offensive wars with Muscovy created hatred among the Russian population against Poles

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

Potop one of the best military films in history

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


no pawian, it was only pospolite ruszenie - these were not experienced soldiers - and their leaders betrayed Poland

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


you forget about another deluge that was ongoin while the Swedes struck - it was the Polish-Russian war and the Russian troops went very far west (including Wilno) - and that's why Poland was devoid of defences

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

there is no need to be sorry - it was so long ago

actually it was our leadership that was responsible for wars with Sweden namely the Vasa dynasty who ruled Poland

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

the war brought famine and partisan warfare

History / Use of the word "lord" in Polish. [11]

the word "lord" is and was used to describe a British aristocrat and is higly doubtful that it was used prior to 1607 - Polish - British contacts where not that frequent in those times and little was known in Poland about British cultures, there was also no tradition of noble titles in Poland before (except for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania where princes were present)

News / Poland's PiS = suspicion & fear? [70]


would you call SLD government before the PiS-lead coalition as a corrupt system (you sure know what Rywin commission was)

if so then fighting for political power sometimes is a direct fight with corrupt systems, my belief is we still live in a corrupt systems and I have reasons to believe this.

Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]

kotku mój (kotkooh mooy) or mój kociaku (mooy kochakooh)

Language / Będę kupowała/będę kupić [18]


you must have seen będę kupować because będę kupić does not exist in Polish as Zibi has stated

there is no real difference between będę kupował and będę kupować

but surely there is a difference between będę kupował and będę kupowała - it;s about gender of the speaker as you probably know

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Frau Lebensraum

Language / How to pronounce "y" in Polish? [28]


snd Polish "a" sounds like Italian 'a' in words like pasta, basta, mangiare - simple

Genealogy / Mackowiak surname, Maćkowiak [17]

don't know about Kashubians but Maćkowiak is quite a popular surname among Poles at large

Language / How to pronounce "y" in Polish? [28]


i believe this is the closest you get in English

as for the remark of 'y' being similar to 'e' at the end of words - well - I don't think so

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

have never been there but judging from the fact that the city was built almost from scratch by the communists it must be quite ugly

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]


I have no experience or knowledge whatsover of any foreing educational systems - one thing I know is Polish education system hardly teaches children to think for themselves and hardly promotes creativity and creative approach to problems and learning - in my kid years primary schools at least offered children an insight into the world of practical skills (Zajęcia praktyczno-techniczne) and many young people already found their calling then - it is all gone now AFAIK

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]


it's not the universities that are the main problem but earlier education and in fact in Poland the system where money follows the student is much in place but it creates a different result that you would want to see - it creates a situation where universities accept all students they can (and even more than they can) and keep even those who are not actually fit for university education


yes I think you are right on this for the most part

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]

ech pawian, I have seen the avarage quality of today's graduates - you are fooling yourself mostly - high school deans complain that the level of science among their newcomers have dropped dramatically and they can hardly cope with that because there is a serious gap

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]


you definitely can't read Polish jason because you would a couple of times question in your mind the version of the situation your father in law has presented you with (the story told by the Rybitzky guy is very different to what your FIL told you)


AFAIK they are not killing anybody in Guantanamo - neither they tear their fingernails away or burn away their testicles with high intensity current - so it hardly compares - definitely not with Chechnia war

with America some standards are upheld - they have openly chased and killed bin Laden

quote=pawian]Don`t be a child. Russia isn`t worse than USA and the USA isn`t any better than Russia. [/quote]

are you serious? are you sure it's the same thing to border with Russia and to border with the US?? which country would you personally want to border with?

now imagine that the Smoleńsk crash was actually a Russian terrorist act - what would you do then (if you have prove enough to believe it) - just forget it and move on? shut up for the sake of 'good relations'?

I don't say it was a Russian made thing - I don't know that - but a lot of things seem very suspicious (like the treatment of the plane wreckage) - should we stop asking questions and stop attempts to discover what actually happened - because there already have been a lot of lies told by the Russians themselves and by some circles in Poland that it begs to dig further for the truth because it seems quite sure to me we don't know the truth at the moment


oh, pal - are you sure Mexicans complain about the neighbourhood of the USA? or quite contrary? also do those Mexicans whose ancestors were conquered by the US long to be united with their 'motherland' or quite contrary - if you don't see that the US is much more a country of freedom than Russia then you should buy good glasses

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]


what the hell the Russians need and use that intelligence for that they need people to be killed - do you not see that if what you state is true Russia is not a normal civilized country one can have a proper relations with???

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]


why the hell did Russians kill Litvinienko???

how do I know - I am not the alpha and omega - but I'm pretty sure we can exclude the engines exploding because it would simply destroy them and AFAIK at least one engine is visible on the photos of the crashed plane quite intact - explosions on the other hand could have easily destroyed controls and fuel supply to the engines causing them to stop as was testified by those witnesses I mentioned

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]


This one

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


biofuesl have been heavily subsided in the US (it was really huge sums) - I know cause I have read an article about people calling for ending the subsidies - that's about being impartial


all technologies involving coal are quite dirty - in fact burning of the coal (especially de-sulphurised and in big plants) can well be the cleanest coal technology - the known technologies to produce methanol or ethanol involve turning it into gas by some partial burning to produce - there is still a lot toxic and problematic byproducts

News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

youtube.com/watch?v=2RyX5vX9Qfs&feature=feedu

this video explains a lot about Lithuanian educational policies toward their Polish minority - the problem is not 2 additional subjects to be taught in Lithuanian in Polish schools - watch the video to learn more