Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

@Ktos
What? Where's the hate? Are non Poles not allowed on here? Why is the word Pole offensive. Who are you to decide whos Polish? What's wrong with you?

History / Ski- Suffix of names [12]

@Paulina
Thank you! That's very interesting history.
That makes sense re. the pronunciation. I always thought that my fathers friend whose name ends in -ski sounded like he was stopping his name short. So, it would be, say, Kowalski correctly and not Kowalskiy as I was saying it. Now I'll know how not to look like an idiot.

Genealogy / Do Polish people have big noses? [450]

Not excessively large, no. But Slavs in general, Russians, Serbians, Poles, etc. DO have a slight predisposition to 'large' noses. This does not mean absurdly large, or ALL Poles or anything, it's just a generic Slavic trait, like blonde/brown hair. A lot of Poles and other Slavs have blonde/brown hair, doesn't mean ALL. Likewise a lot have grey eyes, again, not ALL. What's so bad about a big nose, anyway? All being said, the Poles I know all have tiny noses.

Language / Polish from Russian [14]

@Paulina I am! Very serious vocational ballet student at Vaganova Academy! How did you know? Did I put that in my information on my profile?

New York sounds very interesting, good for him/her.
You're definitely right. I honestly don't understand why a lot of Russians hate Poles, call them crooks, "insult" them by calling them Jews (I think there used to or is a lot of dislike towards Jews in Poland, which is saddening but ironic on the "insult" matter) . Obviously I understand the general dislike of Russians in Poland, with the invasion and practically terrorizing them for centuries, although ordinary Russians really have nothing to do with that.

Please stick to the topic of this thread

Language / Polish from Russian [14]

Thank you, @Paulina. You're very kind 😊.
Thanks for the link, @mafketis.
Six months sounds very quick, @Bobko. 'Her', by the way. 'Friend' is a lovely word, I wasn't expecting such niceness from Poles. Not because Poles aren't nice people, just Poland and Russia aren't exactly friendly (understatement of the year).