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Polonius3   
22 Oct 2015
Language / Polish names without a nickname (or less frequently shortened) [61]

agumentative

Maybe in general linguistics but in onomastics (name research) the term hypocoristic is extremely handy.
BTW it should be pieniąchy. Those ch forms are definitely perceived as augmentatives because they suggest an element of coarseness, disrespect and/pr excessive familiarity. At leasts that's my take on it.
Polonius3   
21 Oct 2015
Language / Polish names without a nickname (or less frequently shortened) [61]

'diminutive'

Statistics notwithstanding, the term diminutive is not restricted to names. It can be used with any noun as in kitty, doggy, superette (small supermarket), etc.

FYI, Polish is one of ther few languages that has an augmentative form. As oposed to the diminutive which makes thigns sound smaller, cuter, daintier than the original, the augmentative makes things sound bigger, older, coarser or possibly more threatening.

Pies (dog), piesek (cute little doggy), psisko (big, old, clumsy cur).
Polonius3   
21 Oct 2015
Language / Polish names without a nickname (or less frequently shortened) [61]

instead of full names

In linguistics those pet names are known as hypocoristic versions of first names. What I don't understand is whence your aversion to them. If you will be in Poland or elsewhere in a Polish-speaking setting (eg Polish London) people will create such pet names by force of habit. These are terms of endearment and familiarity not meant to belittle or insult.

Even Świętopełk would probably get modified to Świętuś, Świętunio or something similar.
Polonius3   
19 Oct 2015
Genealogy / Zientara Surname [12]

Zientara

ZIENTARA: This fairly popular Polish surname is sometimes mistakenly believed to be derived from zięć (son-in-law). More likely than not it traces its origin to German names such as Sinter, Sindbert, Sindhart, etc. In Old German sind meant way, road or travel.

An alternate spelling is Ziętara which looks even more Polish, hence few people suspect its distant Germanic roots.
KWIATKOWSKI: root-word kwiat (flower). A typical toponmyic from such localities as Kwiatków and Kwiatkowo (Flowerton, Floralville).
Polonius3   
18 Oct 2015
Life / Polish loos have made great strides.... [12]

grey paper

Apperances can be deceiving. I go out of my way to get the grey loo paper for the following reasons:
1) It's cheaper;
2) More ecological (its made of makulatura or scrap paper -- no additional trees have to be cut down);
3) It's healthier. Grey is how scrap paper comes out when soaked, dried, whirled and pressed into paper. The snowy white stuff may look a lot better but it has been chemically treated so you are basically rubbing bleaching chemicals into your #%?$!&! The choice is yours!
Polonius3   
18 Oct 2015
Life / Polish loos have made great strides.... [12]

If any area has made great visible progress since the demise of PRL it is the public lavatory. The toilet facilities in schools, out-patient clinics, public offices, etc. were atrocious - poorly equipped, dirty and odoriferous.

Now - WOW! Modern fittings, sparkling tiles, scrubbed floors, air-fresheners and usually loo paper to boot. Dunno if this holds for every provincial train and PKS station, but in major cities this is usually the case.

Back in the days of commie-era paper shortages, a babcia klozetowa (loo grannny) dispensed 2 sheets of very rough loo paper and it cost 2 zł or so.

In the outback such as rural train and coach stations there were these scoot-down toilets which were something else. They had two skid-proof foot rests and a pull chain for after the deed was done. I had one bad experience. The toilet was clogged up so when the chain was pulled the none-too-aromatic liquid backed up and flooded the cubicle. The user had a choice of one of two basic options: bolting out of the cubicle with his trousers down or pulling up the by-now drenched trousers before leaving. I chose the latter option.
Polonius3   
16 Oct 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Kuczajda

KUCZAJDA: probably from Old Polish kuczeć (to squat, sit on one's hanches the way many chairless Orientals do). The -ajda ending is usualyl pejorative as in niedorajda (klutzy clodhopper, loser) or ciamajda (clueless oaf). Kuczajda could have been coiend to indicate a squatter with a tinge of disapproval of the practice.

Rare it is indeed! Not a single person in Poaldn uses it at present.
Polonius3   
15 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

masked scum

Parades move. If you happen to be in a section wtih pram-pushing parents and scouts you may never see any violence happening 200-300 m behind. At least that was my observation of several years back -- 3, 4, maybe 5.

Nitpicking Harry will twist everybody's words, look for every tiny thing to latch onto for the sake of badmouthing his fellow-man. If so, why not start with Michnik, Grodzka, Kopacz, Tusk, Senyszyn, Środa and Biedroń -- among the most badmouthable creatures on God's good earth.

BTW you may not respect the Polish language enough to actually master it, but the least you could do is spell words and names correctly. Just type polishtypeit into google. You'll be as clueless as ever, but never accentless!
Polonius3   
15 Oct 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

I had a Russian teacher named Kalaida, in Polish that would be Kałajda. That ending probably appears in other Slavonic tongues.
In Polish -ajda is usually pejorative -- e.g. ciamajda (silly oaf), niedorajda (clumsy ne're do well).
I doubt if it had to do wtih Galicja. People from there were called Galicyjak and Galon
Polonius3   
15 Oct 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Galajda.

GA£AJDA: possibly from Old Polish verb galić (to serve, indulge, toady, humour sb); over 100 users mainly clustered in SE Poland near where the borders of Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia meet.
Polonius3   
15 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

'few' spoiling it for the 'many'

The media hyenas are mainly to blame for focusing only on the extrteme, drastic and sensational. Apparently they believe that's what the masses want to see and read about. Maybe they're right?!
Polonius3   
14 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

the nation I'm proud to call home.

You're so proud of it that you can't even be bothered to master its language. You prefer to jabber away with fellow-expats in the jargon of Mother England!
Polonius3   
14 Oct 2015
UK, Ireland / Britain's moral collapse? [99]

@Dougpol1
You prefer to hide behind-brain schemes and café utopias which have all come and gone. The guillotine of the "be my brother or I'll kill you" Frog reovolution, the swastika, the hippies, etc, are all on the rubbish heap of history. That's where the homo-perversion pedlars will soon be as well. Trendy fly-by-night things never last but before they vanish they leave plenty of human harm and misery in their wake. The Judaeo-Christian heritage has had its ups and downs but still forms the basic foundation of Western civilisation.
Polonius3   
14 Oct 2015
UK, Ireland / Britain's moral collapse? [99]

preserve life itself

That is precisely the point many of today's "trendies" are missing. Whether or not God exists (no-one can prove or disprove it!) the Judaeo-Christian heritage has provided the basis for Europe's human culture and devleopment for well over two millennia. Sure, there were problems --where aren't there any? -- but it has created a fundamental structure and set of values which have provided a basic moral compass that has persisted to this day. All the ad hoc utopias -- the French bloodbath, the café ideologies of rich middle-class Jews (Marx & Engels), the attempts to put them into practice (Lenin, Stalin), the half-baked beer-hall demagoguery (Hitler, Goebbels & brown-shirt thugs), even the 1960s/70s counterculture hippie revolution -- have all come and gone, but not before leaving a sea of human misery in their wake. Now we are facing the pansexual onslaught promoting perversity, test-tube babies, surrogate mothers, trannies, free condoms and abortion pills to school children, etc. That too will eventually pasas, but the damage to society, the family unit and individual victims it leaves behind is impossible to predict. Let's not forget that in their own dayeach of those utopias proclaimed to all and sundry that this time we have hit on the perfect, one true, proper, viable solution....only to produce more disillusionment and regret. For all its shortcomings, the Judaeo-Christian ethical system is based on common sense, advocates restraint, provides stability and has helped to calm the precarious, oft-turbulent waters of the modern world.
Polonius3   
14 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

think that throwing petrol bomb

Another harryesque lie by insinuaiton. Please provide evidence that I ever said I approved of throwing petrol bombs at women and children. I wouldn't advocate throwing them even at a freak parade.
Polonius3   
13 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

a far-right march

The 2013 11th Nov. march was the last one I attended and the overall impression was that the majority of marchers were ordinary, decent Poles. But the electronic media in particular focused almost exclusively not on pram-pushing married couples, boy scouts and war veterans but on trouble-making hooligans. If, as you claim, it has now lasrgely become an ultira-rightist or even neo-Nazi event, the hyped media coverage would be largely to blame having scared many of the ordinary, peaceful marchers away.
Polonius3   
13 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

fringe nationalist movement?

It's the media hyenas that focus on fringe activiteis, punch-ups, clashes with police and the like. In actuality, the 11th November march is a manifestation of ordinary patriotic Poles -- entire families, boy scouts and girl guides, young married couples pushing prams, miners, steelworkers, nurses,ex-servicemen, normal, decent citizens celebrating their country's inpendence -- something the Millers and Czarzastys of this world and others doing the Kremlin's bidding had prohibited for 45 years. But to the media hyenas any peaceful march is boring. Sensation sells so they focus on marginal riffraff, hooligan trouble-makers hurling payivng stones and aiming and shooting off fireworks like ballistic missiles.
Polonius3   
13 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

read the bible

Yes, especially those passages that refer to homosexulity as an abomination offensive to God. The biblical rainbow was hijacked by a perversion-promoting lobby light years away from the values of Judaeo-Christian morality.

BTW PM Kopacz's daughter has gone on record as saying she would leave the coutnry if PiS win the election. A pledge worthy of emulation, eh Harry?
Polonius3   
13 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

"provoked" violence

The public display of any controversial symbol -- a swastika, hammer & sickle, the portrayal of a man beating his dog, or a rainbow perceived as the logo of a perversion-promoting lobby -- is bound to upset some people and has a potential for triggering a violent reaction by unrestrained young hotheads. Authorities wishing to prevent public unrest can either send security police in full riot gear into the streets or remove the bone of contention.
Polonius3   
12 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

fringe nationalists

The parade is not a nationalist march -- it was first organised by PiS and other patriotic circles. Anyone who loves Poland and hates commies, eurofanatics and PO scammers is free to join.
Polonius3   
12 Oct 2015
News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

President Duda has been invited to march in the Independence Day parade on 11th November. In previous years, then president Komorowski staged his own counter-event for government clerks and assorted PO flunkies rather than marching with the nation in the normal parade. This year fortunately no-one will have to view that insightly rainbow eyesore which had provoked violence in the past.

polskatimes.pl/artykul/8988564,marsz-niepodleglosci-2015-ogloszono-trase-przemarszu-prezydent-duda-przyjmie-zaproszenie,id,t.html
Polonius3   
10 Oct 2015
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

people in Poland

They knew it would stop the creation of a freak factory. They did not know the details such as that parents were no longer to be consulted in gender-change cases as the the existing law requires. Nor that trannies would be free to marry anyone regadless of their gender. One taxi driver sarcastically remarked: "Jeszcze więcej nam takich Grodzkich trzeba!"
Polonius3   
10 Oct 2015
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

real negative move

Only in the assessment of the freak faction -- the Grodzkas, Senyszyns, Legierskis, Biedrońs, Palikots and other sundry anarcho-libertines out to turn everything on its head. You seem to regard such characters as representative of the Polish nation as such. They aren't! They are only a lunatic fringe whose biases and obsessions are their private affair.
Polonius3   
9 Oct 2015
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

actually gained a bit

The Polish nation has gained more than just a bit by rejecting one of the off-the-wall legislative concoctions of the freak faction. After PiS win power they will be able to start dismantling such leftist-libertine laws such as legalised testube babies and legitmisation of shack-up arrangements. Those who delight in the abnormal and freaky are free to move to Holland or Sweden or other places where freakiness is the norm. Poland thankfully will remain "SEMPER FIDELIS"!
Polonius3   
9 Oct 2015
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

not a specific individual

Dunno how old Pamela is, but among today's younger set there's a tendency to use the 2nd person singular amongst peers or even older people. In a sense she was addressing each male and female PF-er personally ratehr than speaking to a crowd..