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Ziemowit   
18 May 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Mother Poland claims all Slavs as her rightful children. ;)

Maybe yes, maybe not. You know about the fate of the Kashubian enclave of the village of Kluki near Leba? They all had gradually left for Germany in the 1960s as the newly arrived after 1945 Polish folk and the commie authorities were not very friendly towards them always regarding them as Germans.
Ziemowit   
13 May 2021
Language / Etymology of the word "brat" - in Poland and other Slavic countries [21]

doubtful conclusion that the English word 'brat' derived from the Irish 'brat' meaning cloak

The Oxford Dictionary of English gives us this origin:
<ORIGIN> 16th century: perhaps an abbreviation of synonymous Scotts brachet 'hound, b*tch'; or perhaps from dialect brat 'rough garment, rag', based on old Irish bratt 'cloak'.
Ziemowit   
9 May 2021
History / Kashubians are nation in Poland? [124]

Kashubian IS a different language (not a dialect!)

This is debatable. There isn't a very distinct line beyond which you can tell that the dialect becomes a separate language. Some liguists say that Kashubian is a language, some say that it is not. If you take Silesian, for example, when you listen to dialects spoken in villages, they differ no more from standard Polish than the Mazovian dialects spoken in Mazovian villages do. They are very easy to understand for every Pole. But if you listen to the Silesian dialects spoken in towns, you can immediately hear a lot of words of German origins which make these dialects much less comprehensible to a standard Polish speaker, so they immediately think: oh, my God, how it is different from Polish!

One of the major obstacles for recognizing Silesian as a language is the many existing variants of Silesian which are likely to differ a lot between themselves too.

As for Kashubian, Pomeranian tribes had been separated from the rest of the Lechitic dialects in the Middle Ages, so they may have developed more distinct features from standard Polish than Silesian dialects. But I guess the grammatical structure of Kashubian is exactly the same as in Polish: the same set of cases, and of tenses, with diferences in vocabulary only. Or am I wrong?
Ziemowit   
9 May 2021
News / Ryszard Czarnecki - Poland's politician and Member of the European Parliament [30]

He was asked by the Commission to submit evidence for his travels. I think he produced some strange receipts, but don't remember details of this fraud of his.

Anyway, it wasn't a Wyborcza-only issue. The PiS-controlled media obviously did not pay any attention (in case this is your only source of information on Poland).
Ziemowit   
30 Apr 2021
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

The document was made in Kołomyja (Polish name) in 1831, now in ... God and Google only know where the city belongs now, possibly to Ukraine. Letters are too small for me to decipher the text. Possibly it is in German. Please make an enlarged image of this piece.
Ziemowit   
30 Apr 2021
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

This is a book by Charles Oman, an Oxford scholar, which was written in 1893, first published in 1898 by Rivingtons. Charles Oman is introduced as M.A, F.S.A, Fellow of All Souls College and Lecturer at New College, Oxford. The language is fine and the book reads as well as if it were written these days. The narrative feels truly modern except for a few archaisms, for example: using the term 'host' rather than 'army' or 'ere' instead of 'before' and a number of some other.

The title of the book is "The Dark Ages. 476-918" and it has been made into an e-book in 2017. So this mistake in it might be due to the transcription of the original text into the electronic version perhaps.

scrapes some paint from a painting (icon?) he likes and mixes it with baptismal water

Yes, this makes sense to me as it goes well with rest of this passage on superstitions of the time.
Ziemowit   
30 Apr 2021
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Now my question re eng-pol tanslations. The following sentence is somewhat incomprehensible to me. Here is the whole pasage:

The freaks to which image-worship led were often most grotesque: it was, for example, a well-known practice to make a favorite picture the godfather of a child in baptism, by scraping off a little of its paint and mixing it with the baptismal water. [text refers to the times of Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian]

The sense of this piece in bold is unclear to me.
Ziemowit   
30 Apr 2021
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

The computer says raczej

Don't believe what computers tell you!
'O ile wiem' and 'z tego co wiem' are synonymous.
Ziemowit   
23 Apr 2021
Travel / Your best memory after visiting Poland [41]

I think there were plans to mount a GPS transmitter on Jesus' head, but they abandoned the idea after a flash of criticism.
Ziemowit   
22 Apr 2021
Po polsku / Kobiety odrzucają politykę kościoła [56]

No proszę, buddysta a kibicuje PiS-owi.

Przypomniała mi się w tym momencie scenka z Kiepskich, gdy Ferdek przemalowany na Murzyna, chodzi po parku, zataczając się niemiłosiernie. Zobaczyły go siedzące na ławce dwie bardzo eleganckie starsze panie i gdy już Ferdek je minął, jedna z nich mówi z oburzeniem do drugiej:

- Patrzy Pani, co się w tym kraju wyrabia. Murzyn, a pijany jak Polak!
Ziemowit   
22 Apr 2021
Po polsku / Kobiety odrzucają politykę kościoła [56]

tylko sobie tak walisz jak gołąb na parapet.

Niezłe. Nie słyszałem wcześniej. Pasuje jak ulał do Irona hehehe.

to był wybór przed wieloma wcieleniami - związany z upadkiem

To Ty nie jesteś już rzymskim katolikiem, tylko jakimś tybetańskim przechrztą?
Ziemowit   
21 Apr 2021
Genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49]

destroyed during the war

Actually, there was quite a number of Lower and Upper Silesian towns which survived the war unscathed.

all thanks to the HRE!

Do you know what Goethe said on hearing the news of the HRE dissolution?
Ziemowit   
20 Apr 2021
Po polsku / Kobiety odrzucają politykę kościoła [56]

a jeszcze ich nie robię

Prawidłowa forma to: nie robić sobie jaj [z czegoś lub z kogoś]. To potoczne i idiomatyczne wyrażenie i może sprawiać trudności, dlatego pozwoliłem sobie zwrócić Ci uwagę na błąd.
Ziemowit   
15 Apr 2021
Genealogy / Silesian, old Polish heritage? [49]

"we are total different " seems to be rather a question of different history and feelings rather than actual massive differences regarding to their origin.

You are right. Besides, there are many dialects in Silesia rather than a standarized version of the so-called Silesian language.

No wonder they feel different as they had lived outside Poland's borders for about 700 years. There was a remarkable number of Polsh economic migrants to Upper Silesia in the 19th century which strenghtened the Polish-speaking population there. These people adopted Silesian dialect later on rather than vice versa.

For a Pole like myself it is quite easy to understand Silesian dialect since I know a bit of German. But quite often, they use old Polish/Slavic words that no longer exist in Polish and would be strange to a Pole.

On TV there is a show on Silesian cuisine in which the cook speaks a softened version of Silesian. The way he speaks sounds really funny. For example he says: A teraz przirichtuja ten dressing, which is in fact a mixture of Polish and German and English (teraz - now; przirichtuja - ich mache richtig / I will make ready; ten - this; dressing - dressing)
Ziemowit   
11 Apr 2021
Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

Where is the best place to find a girlfriend in Poland?

So your problem was not whether you look Polish, but how to find a girl-friend in Poland hahaha.
Ziemowit   
10 Apr 2021
Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

call themselves Jews

If I'm not mistaken, Kraków has the highest percentage of people of Jewish origin of all Polish towns today. On visiting the Nowy Cmentarz Żydowski once, I saw quite a number of contemporary Jewish burials there.
Ziemowit   
10 Apr 2021
Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

I live at the north east edge of Belgium. Half hour from Maastricht

Oops, I missed that post, that's why I was asking about Flanders/Wallonia.
Ziemowit   
10 Apr 2021
Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

you actually look less Polish than you did before

This is my impression too. He suddenly looks much less Polish than before. This new tint of his hair makes him look much more Germanic now, sort of Nieder Sachsen/Nederland mixture. I guess he would be R1b genetically.

Komt u uit Wallonië of Vlaanderen? [Ik zou naar Vlaanderen wijzen.]
Ziemowit   
6 Apr 2021
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

at least Ziemowit realizes this

Szymon Hołownia (Polska 2050) is still gaining in the polls, whereas differences within the United Right deepen all the time. JK has just said he cannot exclude an election in autumn ...
Ziemowit   
6 Apr 2021
History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]

but still it looks a bit doubtful

The old town of Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) has been rebuilt in the same style. It looks pretty nice indeed, though, since the magnificent old cathedral has been restored (not sure how much of it survived the WW II) and is now a piece of authentic reality from the time before the war.

The worst was when the commie authorities built socialist-style blocks of flats as a replacement for the old buildings.
Ziemowit   
2 Apr 2021
Love / Are all Polish guys like this [48]

PF member with no life

You mean Wrocław Boy? No, I think Aemilia is a real and authentic girl. Read one of my previous posts where I put the reasons why Aemilia is doing it and what is behind her story. In her short post a while ago she seems to corroborate what I have said.
Ziemowit   
2 Apr 2021
Love / Are all Polish guys like this [48]

2019, 2020 and now - 2021... That is some persistent troll..

She's not a troll. This is her dream that rebounds in her again and again ...

Well done, Paulina. I'd have never thought this was a recurring case, probably because I usually don't open such threads. This time, as new posts and threads on the forum are scarce, I felt tempted to open it ... and to post my two cents (or trzy grosze or at the current rate of exchange, osiem groszy).