Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


what I believe is you made it up with a limited knowledge of Polish fraseology and spelling

as Magdalena already pointed to you no native would write 'Murzyny do drewa' even in a grafitti

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

you can't tell how to spell 'drzewo' in Polish and you live here for good couple of years and claim to know some Polish - most English speaking foreigners give up learning Polish as it is too much of a headache for them and you tell Polish language is not impenetrable - some humility will serve you pretty well

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


Magdalena's English is far better than your Polish John - face it

you couldn't even tell there are substantial errors in the sentence 'Murzyny do drewa'

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


it's only you and Harry who think that this word is unacceptable - and you are foreigners

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


oh man, you are a completely deluded bloke - I was born raised and live currently in Poland and lived most of my life here - and I haven't seen a black person in ages outside the TV

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


Interestingly I don't believe you - so you say Poland has now 0,15 pro mille of blacks rather than 0,1 pro mille - where do they all come from and why they choose the land of the poor

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


the word is neutral in my dictionary and in the dictionary of the most Poles - you are clearly a bigoted person

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


And you will rewrite dictionaries for the Poles yes?? - thank you very much - call the EU for help - you won't achieve much on your own

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

the word Pollack is no longer neutral - if it ever was - there is a proper neutral word in English and this is a Pole - Murzyn is a proper neutral word to describe a black person in Polish - end of story - we won't change neutral words to suit the needs of the few

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


once again murzyn is a neutral word - the derogative word for a black person is czarnuch - perhaps some black people in Poland object to being called murzyni but we won't change the language to suit the sensitivities (sick sensitivities) of the few

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


I don't believe the word Pollack had ever neutral connotations - the neutral word and a proper word in English is a Pole - Murzyn is neutral as you can get in Polish and your philology doctor was a bigot

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


so what do they use instead? - there is no other originally Polish word to describe a black person of African origin which is no cumbersome - the word czarny has not very pleasant connotations

btw it's as if urban educated people cannot be bigots

Language / What computer keyboards are in use in Poland? [34]


It doesn't slow down typing that much when you are used to it

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

Bigmick


your guess is right it is the son of - in this case it is the son of Mitko (Mitko is not a regular first (could have been a nickname I guess) name neither in Polish nor in Belarusian - this is actually a Belarusian or Ruthenian surname)

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

on or -oń has no particular role in contemporary Polish as a suffix - perhaps it was different in past ages - I know this suffix only from personal names like Nocoń, Kocoń to be honest

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

Piotrowiak can be simply translated as Peterson or Peters

Law / Why is Poland importing so much coal? [76]

gasifying coal is not a clean technology, lots of benzene (and similar) emissions into the atmosphere

Law / Why is Poland importing so much coal? [76]

a couple of closed coal mines have been recently or are being reopened

Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]

babka or babeczka - lass or litle lass (it could be also translated as granny though)

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

someone who comes from the village of Pierścianów (possibly the name of the noble owner of the village but not necessarily) - the name Pierścianów comes from the old Slavic name for finger

Law / Why is Poland importing so much coal? [76]

imported coal is simply cheaper as it is mined from open-pit mines - what is more Poland has not enough coke-grade coal and we must import it

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


where did you get it from - I have seen official data for the years 2004 - 2010 and it clearly stated that Poland was third lowest per capita beneficiary

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


I don't understand why is it so obvious to you - why not make it all receive the same per capita - the difference is significant as far as I can rembemer like more than 10 per cent

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


not per capita

the only countries that receive less per capita than Poland are Romania and Bulgaria

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]

the number is negligible - you and I know there are some Lemkos who live in various part of the country after the 'Akcja "Wisła"' but most Poles are not aware of this

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]

for the majority of Poles think Silesians and Górals are just Poles who speak in a dialect, there is no Lemko minority to speak of actually

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]


Poland is not a small backwater - it is a big backwater :)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


so is Sekielski I guess

Morozowski is Jewish, don't actually know about Sekielski

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [150]


don't worry Dreadnought - the pawian guy is a known troll here :)

Travel / Fishing in Poland - where to go, what to catch? [81]

I kept minnows in a tank once upon the time while still studying - hardy m...f...ers they were as I spent most of the week out of home