Life / Polish movies with English subtitles [87]

@tavi206
Maybe it would be more useful to find an English native speaker who knows either both Romanian and/or fluent Polish alone in order to translate INTO English!

As translator myself, I do realize that expense definitely plays a role in hiring expert assistance. Nonetheless, if you want the best (and one should never settle for second best), you will have to pay for it, no way around it.

Life / Trendsetter from Poland. [86]

Of course.

Life / Trendsetter from Poland. [86]

You're paying tor the name, you mean.

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

@Kaszub,
I'm certain Scholz has more important things on his mind right now than potentially dodgy or even specious Polish claims for extracting money from the German government!

Even major Holocaust organizations have eventually come to terms with the fact that no single country could possibly process every single, bloody compensation claim out there, a modicum of satis-faction in that as there may be.

It's time to let bygones be bygones.

Life / Trendsetter from Poland. [86]

Yes, I've even seen the former in the States, about two years or so ago, when we were shopping in Greenpoint:-)

Life / Trendsetter from Poland. [86]

From Soul of Poland to a mere potato vodka?
Man, how the mighty have fallen LOL

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

Well put there, paw!
A real exercise in sheer futility.
PiS actually thinks Scholz will even give such demands the time of day??!

Wariatem jest LOL

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

Once more, seems to me far too much for WAY too late in the game! Still not clear as to why now of all times is Poland making such egregious demands on her neighbor, particularly as war continues to rage in Ukraine. A distractionary tactic, perhaps?

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

I meant "FOR the BREXIT", sorry, I misstyped.

Life / Trendsetter from Poland. [86]

...Marcella Sembrich, Jan Kiepura ("The Polish Caruso"), Marie Curie (nee Manya Sklodowska), Andrzej Wajda......

Apropos comestible items, Wedel Czekolada and Krakus cookies, pickles etc.

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

@jon,
During the '50's, the French were still discussing the idea of a United Europe:-)

@Cojestdocholery,
Why should Poland be exempt from EU participation? Probably if you were English, you would have voted against the BREXIT!

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

Poland certainly does need [THE] EU, Cojest! The entire continent of Europe needs a "capital" of sorts if she is ever to join the much desired Concert of Europe, long envisioned from Metternich up through French Premier Schuman.

If the United States of America has Washington, DC. why then shouldn't a United States of Europe have Brussels?

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

Exactly, Gumi!
O.N. (Old Norse) remains the foundation of all contemporary Germanic languages.
Swedish on the other hand, like German, appears to have borrowed even more extensively from the French than often admitted ("fonstret"/das Fenster > la fenetre, cf. highfallutin

English "to defenestrate") = to throw out of the window LOL

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

@Kaszub and Korvinus,
Again I refer you guys as well as the rest of PF-participants in this thread to the somewhat analogous Arab-Israeli conflict, even the England-Ireland situation, both as yet unresolved!

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

I know that Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia along with a total of almost a half-a-dozen countries belonged to the Pact.

Tito consented to membership in NATO, although I believe a condition for joining the latter. was a policy of Western-friendly and anti-Communist sentiment!

@gumishu,
Of course, I just remembered that back in '55, Western-leaning Yugoslavia wouldn't have been allowed to join the Warsaw Pact.
'Scusez-moi!

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

Yugoslavia was a member of the Warsaw Pact, but until she broke up into separate nations during the '90's following the collapse of the Soviet Union, she nonetheless maintained a sense of separatism, Slavic in hertitage, independent in statehood:-)

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Tak, Zosiu co to oznaczy? What are you trying to say?

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

"Vindoyga" in either current Icelandic or Nynorsk, I've presently forgotten.

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

With that last post, Crow, one might take flagrant exception, especially if one is German:-)

Erstwhile Yugoslavia belonged to the so-called "Russian Corridor" after '45 and its Partisan Leader Josip Broz aka Tito, fought the Nazis tooth and nail. Germany never succeeded in destroying either Yugoslavia and her splinter tastes or any of her less fortunate neighbors. They survived bloodied yet unbowed.

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

I take it then, Germany has nothing to say in this matter, according to your opinion.

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

How then do you counter Germany's claims that Poland "owes" them once "purloined" territories in the East?

After all, Wroclaw is no longer Breslau any more than Szczecin is still Stettin.

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

Wow!
I like that.

In certain highly advanced courses, I attempt to show the origins of English in O.E. (Old English) up through M.E. (Middle English) Chaucer, as a way of connecting with the Anglo-Saxon roots of the language and to clarify that English is in fact a Germanic language with a Latin overlay.

Essentially, English has two strands or layers of vocabulary, unmasking its Anglo-Saxon origins:

English - Latin-derived synomym

chew masticate
street pavement
sleeping dormant

etc...

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

We don't discuss such things amongst one another.
We already know the answer:-)

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

Tell me somerthing. Do you feel that Poland's claims are in any way justified, legally or historically?

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

Therefore, former Lusatia and other formerly Slavic-speaking areas should henceforth by ceded (back) to neighboring Slavic nations???!
You're as looney as those Gottscheer folks.

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

Again, which texts do you use for each of the two language mentioned,
Just curious since by coincidence those are subject which I teach also.

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Why, Crow? Because many choose not to screw everything and everyone that moves?
You're not exactly being fair, are you!

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

My first time in Germany, way back in '85 (returned nearly twenty times since then, by the way) I can vividly remember seeing middle-aged protesters in front of the Berlin City Hall, I was told, with angry placards reading "OSTPREUSSEN GEHOERT NOCH UNS!" (East Prussia still belongs to us) and other signs regarding once "German" cities or towns "stolen" from them after the War by the Poles as well as the Russians.

When will the madness end, I keep asking?

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

@Pawianku,
Do you actually teach every one of those subjects listed?
Curious as to which English textbook(s) you use.
:-)

UK, Ireland / Boris Johnson - is the new British PM a popular figure in Poland? [150]

Apology accepted, Miloslaw:-)