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

Polish surnames ending in -ski are derivates of place names - in your case the place name could have been Wosiewo, Wosiew or Wosie - people would be called such surnames if somehow connected to the place - very often they were noble owners of such places (villages mostly) (see Polish nobility) - Wosiewo, Wosiew or Wosie are not names I am familiar with so I assume it must have been a little place -

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]


and what is it supposed to prove - especially Georgia, Mongolia and Armenia?

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


Halka can also be an originally Czech, Slovak or Ukrainian name equal to Polish Gałka - I would place my bet on the Czech origins

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]


if you retire at 70 and still have not enough money to live on then you have to ask if the governments now and before are up to their task or they were cheating on you in extraordinarily multiple ways and you did nothing to stop them even if you understood that they were not fair

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


być może 'Ale tak poza tym' would fit here better (in place of otherwise)'

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


this is true - however I have once met a fairly young till-operator in Holland who either knew little English or had problems with English numerals (I had to practice my wee-bit Dutch - and beware if you can speak just a couple of phrases in Dutch don't go looking for a job with 'Ik/we zoeke(n) arbeid' - it will be confronted with fast swishing sentences you won't understand untill the person to speak them realizes that you gape ;)

Life / Why Poles have so pro-emigration attitude? [85]


because notarians in Poland are a corporation - they decide who can join the corporation and who cannot - that same thing was for other lawyers too before in Poland - btw PiS wanted to get rid of corporations among law professionals - it was naturally hated by all these lawyers

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]


thanks so much for your understanding :) you are very kind :);)

btw I look very much like a third-worlder -especially when well tanned - some cross between Castro and Bin Laden heheh - that explains a thing or two ;)

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]


sasha, you Slavic racist :P - sascha btw don't you find Dutch women attractive? (they are almost 100 per cent Germanic especially in the countryside) - well you can laugh as much as you wish but I find Camilla Parker-Bowles attractive and many other British women too :) - I must be a masochist I guess :P

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

ZIMMY

after living in Poland for a couple of years you would probably conclude that you do not need a gun here

History / Where did the power of Poland vanish to, since... let`s say, some 300 years ago? [180]

actually in short the German history (as well as Polish but German is more striking here) indicates one point - you bully around you end up bullied - you encroach on your neighbours - you will be encroached upon (if you care to consider it is one of the main principles of the Universe - what you give is what you will recieve )- I hope the Germans learned the lesson

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


it gives variety - and variety is fun :)

History / Where did the power of Poland vanish to, since... let`s say, some 300 years ago? [180]


very good point - Polish was not even an official language of the Grand Duchy until 1697 (according to wiki) - Ruthenian was - the nobility of the GDL polonized in time though (but not the peasant masses for the most part)

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


perhaps he means youger generations of Brits talk differently to the older generations and usually the language of the older people (King's English?? - I just don't know) is much easier to pick than more modern varieties of the British English - to my ears hearing Mrs Tatcher speak or most older Britons is a pleasure contrary to that new-English sometimes bordering on stuttering

History / Where did the power of Poland vanish to, since... let`s say, some 300 years ago? [180]

I was no expert on cold weapon - just read somewhere that epee( or small sword) as a piercing and not cutting weapon was superior to sabre in dueling - however some English officer and fencer showed in XIX th century that he could defend himself from any attack made with a small sword using his sabre

History / Where did the power of Poland vanish to, since... let`s say, some 300 years ago? [180]


you are very wrong on that - have you actually ever been to Ostrava?? - while Poles were once the majority in over half of Zaolzie it is not the case in any area of Zaolzie now from what I can gather

I actually think delusional people like PolskiMoc should be banned from PF

History / Where did the power of Poland vanish to, since... let`s say, some 300 years ago? [180]


Poland provoked wars with Sweden and Russia - or rather King Sigismund Vasa did - many in Poland inlcuding hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski objected to the idea of Poland interfering in Russian 'time of troubles' - it was the king's dynastic ambitions that propelled it

History / Where did the power of Poland vanish to, since... let`s say, some 300 years ago? [180]

until the end of 17th century Poland was perhaps only slightly backward in military technology (perhaps because the military often used imported materiel or the country imported craftsmen) - as for tolerance - it was a very tolerant country until 1655 (or the Swedish Deluge) - if you deny it please do back it up somehow - no Poland was not the most advanced country (as you correctly mentioned the seriously underdeveloped industry) in the world even in its 'golden' times - perhaps it was advanced only in political field for a time (but the growth of the nobility importance meant also ever growing serfdom of their subjects - so even this can be questioned)

Instead of Poland I should have used 'the Commonwealth' (meaning the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth)

History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]


I asked because originally I thought you were Polish, and then you jump up with Klotzko :) now I am not that surprised you couldn't read a forum discussion in Polish (I mostly can't read forums in German so you are excused)

as for destroying German cultural objects say monuments - hmm I'm pretty curious how do you imagine Polish population walking past all those Frederick the Greats, Keiser Wilhelms and Hindenburgs on a daily basis in the post war years

as for the cemeteries - various cemeteries had various stories - some still do exist (there is a big old evangelical cemetery in Opole for example, Wrocław Jewish cemetery has been left intact too (maybe because it was Jewish - it is a museum now AFAIK))

it is true you won't find too many German graves - i know cemeteries not in use anymore where the monuments/graves were razed -

some German cemeteries have been 'recycled' in a way (however nasty it may sound to you) like the big cemeteries in Wrocław - I don't know if they were emptied of German monuments before they started to fill with Polish graves (graves on big cemetries in big cities are 'cleared' anyway after 25 years in Poland to give place to new burials (unless you pay a considerable fee to let them stay longer)

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Celtic languages are Indoeuropean - simple as that - they are most closely related to the Italic languages (including Latin) - indoeuropean languages spread to western Europe from eastern and central parts of the continent - the Basque is the sole remaining pre-Indoerupean (non-Indoeuropean) language in western Europe - Britain was conquered and settled by Celtic tribes in a couple of waves - Celtic languages spread over the isles and replaced all former languages spoken there (which were most probably non-Indoeuropean)

ok I probably missed your point - yeah legend forgot about the Celtic languages

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


Muszę już iść is better (more natural Polish) than 'Muszę już pójść'

History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]


where do you live actually?

History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]


the only Polish troops that could possibly enter Slupsk in the spring of 1945 was 1st Tank Brigade - but even this is doubtful (looking at wikipedia entry on the brigade)

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


some individuals do - but you don't meet such people too often - much like some English people lisping

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

while I really do like Russian it is not that perfectly suited for a pan-Slavic lingua franca or maybe it is just my prejudice

Love / What are the best love poems in Polish to receive? [77]

you are welcome :)

Love / What are the best love poems in Polish to receive? [77]


looks like my translation wasn't perfect eventually - i missed this in my translation - I would write 'Nieobdarzoną bogactwem słów miłości' - the version you proposed is not natural Polish (and going for some strange stylistic is not the way to write personal poetry in my oppinion)

Love / What are the best love poems in Polish to receive? [77]

oranje68

Jestem osobą
Nieobdarzoną bogactwem słów.
Często brak mi słów właściwych.
Czasem wogóle brak mi słów.

Ale mam nadzieję,
Że moja miłość słów nie potrzebuje.
Że spojrzenie albo dotyk
mogą powiedzieć więcej niż tysiąc słów.

A jeśli to za mało
Pozwól mi namalować słowami obraz
Kolorami miłości
Z Tobą po środku
Z moim sercem w twoich dłoniach

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]


from the leaks to the press it worked on the simulation flight of the twin Tu-154M - but maybe you are right that Russian manuals state that it should not (or at least should not be relied on) in the specific circumstances during the fatal flight - I tend to take such things with caution because Gazeta Wyborcza already fabricated this and that about the flight - and similarily current Polish government lied on the matter (some lies were simply blatant - like Mrs Kopacz claiming she was taking part in the post mortems - similarily the Russian body that 'investigated' the matter lied in post mortem results - Mr Wassermann's post mortem described some body parts he had removed in operation before according to Mr Wassermann's daughter

Life / Understanding Poland's Birthday Tradition [66]


eh, why don't you insist on not accepting what happened - what happened, happened - apparently noone was seriously harmed - had your GF objected to the thing it probably wouldn't have happened after all (or else would have been a serious offence) - should this stop you from loving her? - sorry if I repeat what some other people have already written here