News / When will Poland take on the EURO? [47]


How was it that the UK and Norway conveniently managed to opt out of the euro zone?


Except the EU won't last that long. People are getting fed up with overpaid eurocrats trying to show they're doing something by thinking up an "environmentally friendly" light bulb (that spews poison gas when broken), a "new and improved" mail box, a "better" mouse-trap, etc. and then forcing them down everyone's throat.

News / When will Poland take on the EURO? [47]


Wishful thinking! On a ranking of nationally known politicians he would be way down near the bottom.


And Grodzka as PM and Palikot as speaker of the Sejm would turn Poland into a true freak show.

News / When will Poland take on the EURO? [47]


Robert Biedroń, once Poland's first self-admitted homo MP, now the mayor of some Baltic backwater, wants Poland to adopt the euro and has criticised PiS PM appointee Beata Szydło for opposing it. He must also be an economic masochist who'd get turned on by seeing Poland plunge into a Greek-like imbroglio. He should really stick to his homo stuff, local trash collection and riding his bicycle around town. Even serious economists like Dariusz Rosati said on TV yesterday that euro adoption was probably a decade or more away. Fortunately Biedroń's private views have no impact on the decision.

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Genealogy / Do I have any Polish physical traits? [48]


Aren't high cheekbones a more typical Polish facial feature than the short-headedness you are on about? Also frequently pronounced noses? Some have large ears which is usually seen as a Jewish trait.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


The LOL is at the fools who try to play God and decide what type of killing is OK and which is not. All killing is wrong! And yet the pro-abortion and euthanasia dodos are all for gettng rid of crumbly old "bed blockers" (gotta free up some of those hosptial beds, you know) even if they haven't explicity requested it, as well as unwanted babies, but cringe when a cold-blooded serial killer is executed. Makes no sense and those voicing such views woudl be laughable if they were't so pathetic!!!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Yeah, sure, freedom, equality, democracy -- the unborn infant is asked whether it wants to scraped out, sucked out with a suction device or first dismembered and removed piece by piece. LOL!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

They also have no problem murdering the old and infirm (who are needlessly occupying a hospital bed) and naturally giving it a fancy name -- euthanasia, But mention the death penatly for serial killers and other unreformable scum and they crap in their pants form outrage like the hypocrites they really are. Either life is sacred form conception to natural death or it isn't.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Maybe they should clean up their act and stop sleeping around.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


So, in your expert (?) opinion, in countries where scrape jobs on demand are legal, the women never suffers any medical complications, psychological trauma or other adverse effects. Since even a simple tonsilectomy can entail complications, abortions would be (in your view) the world's only 100% safe medical procedure?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


The adoption alternative may be a better choice than a scrape job which can run into medical complicaitons not to mention often life-long psychological scars. This would also limit the test-tube baby and uterus-hire market, since many childless couples are looking to adopt.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


But not a very fresh one. I posted this item several days ago. Wouldn't it be better to slap the face of all exploitative abortionists getting rich on the plight of young unwed girls?

Genealogy / Want to find a person [770]


One thing: only 449 women in Poland are called Idalia so that'll make it easier to track down than if her name was Maria (some 890,000) or Katarzyna (570,000). And it's Zielona Góra (Green Mountain).

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


It's difficult to be sure about any surname - there was so much confusion, so many unique-case scenarios and individual family variants not to mention misspelling and miscopying in centuries past when illiteracy was widepsread. The German Zacharias origin was but one alternative. The surname could have also evolved from a hypocoristic (endearing pet) form of such first names as Salomon, Samuel, Samson, Sabin, Sandor, Sambor, Sawa, etc.

Let me give you an example. Kowalczyk seems straightforward enough, as overwhelming majority of case sit originated as a patronymic nic to indicate the son of the kowal (blacksmith), But not all. Someone hailing from the village of Kowale would have also been referred to as Kowal. When he fathered a son, Kowalczyk was one of the ways fellow-villagers would have dubbed the offspring.

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

Bunar: Polish adaptation of German Bohner (bean-grower)
Franczyk: patronymic nickname meaning "Franek's son"
Sacha: Polish adaptation of German Sach, short for Zacharias
Korman: from dialectal pronuncation of karmana (Old Polish coat)
Wąs: Polish word for moustaches, whiskers
Kuma: from kum (child's godfather; by extension close friend, bosom companion).

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


And that's why the potential newborn must be deprived of childhood joys becuase its mother is a selfish sl*t?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Lots of people "seek" to kill others. That's why back-street and (in countries legitimising prenatal murder) High Street abortionists as well as Mafia hitmen never lack business.

Funny thing, many people would regard having a hitman rub out an adult as something horrible. But the adult has at least seen different things and enjoyed some of life's amenities.

Have you ever thought that the aborted child has been deprived of playing with a top, toy car, doll or puppy, seeing a butterfly or Christmas tree, having Babcia tell him/her a bedtime story....

Strange that the pro-abortion crowd is so against capital punishment, but often supports euthanasia. JP2 opposed all form of killing: abortion, euthanaisa, the death sentence and war.

History / Is there a list of those in the Polish Army during WWII? [195]


Thre Kacyk part reminds me of a Jewish name, just the appearance somehow does - maybe by analogy to Kadysz. In Polish the word kacyk (originally tribal chief) now means a self-willed provincial official.

Other Ka- first names include: Kajetan, Kalikst, Kasper/Kacper, Kazimierz (already mentioned by you). Kamil, Karol and Kasjan.
Jewish names in Ka- include: Kadysz, Kasriel, Kalman, Karpiel, Kaleb and Kajem.

Where did the poster see the name written that way? Did he copy it properly?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Merged: German baby-killing drones invading Poland

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Polish pro-family groups are up in arms over the latest anti-Polish plot hatched by German feminists. From he country that legitimized the "right" to kill Jews and other undesirables comes a drone promoting the "right" to prenatally murder Polish infants. The German drones are to supply rabid Polish feminists with abortion pills which are justifiably banned in Poland.

History / Is there a list of those in the Polish Army during WWII? [195]


Definitely not Kacper which back then would have been a misspelling. The normal form since time immemorial in educated speech had been Kasper (as in Kasper, Melchior i Baltazar - the inscription you scrawl in blessed chalk over your doorway on Three Kings). Kacper was a peasant variant which became popular fairly recently in the 1980s.

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


In Polish it would have been Trysko ("i" rarely follows "r" in indigenous Polish words and names). The -o ending usually indicates Ruthenian (Belarusian or Ukrainian) origin.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]


So what is it? There must be an English name for all those know-alls commenting on everything under some nick and putting in their two pennies worth.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Merged:Polish internauta = netsurfer in English language?

Does English have a nice equivalent for the Polish internauta? Would it be Internet user, net surfer or what?

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

RZEPIJEWSKI: root-word rzepa (turnip); the -ewski ending usually indicates a name of toponmyic (place-name-derived) origin. This one would be traceable to a locality called Rzepijew or Rzepijewo (Turnipville). Any Polish surname can be and has been used by Jews, but that doesn't make the name itself Jewish.


It should be Przybyszowa. But in the naming field there are many exceptions, unique cases, local or even family-specific situations.
As a non-surname example to illistrate the point, Imagine a kid named William Olsen. His parents call him Billy, one aunt always refers to him as "little Willy", other relatives and family friends have dubbed him butch, skippy, scooter, whitey or what have you.ANd most neighbours call him "the Olsen boy".

Genealogy / Want to find a person [770]


There are over 30,000 people in Poland sharing the Bąk surname (pronounced bunk or bonk), so with only that inforamtion it's a needle in a haystack situation. Do you at least know what the T stands for: Tomasz, Tadeusz, Teofil, Teodor, Tytus, Tymoteusz or what?

News / Poland is being robbed - Kukiz [37]


The berety thing totally exposed shifty-eyed Don for the insensitive, power-hungry bastard he really is.
Millions of Poles were incensed by his derisive remarks towards one of hte country's major assets:
THE POLISH BABCIA!

News / Poland is being robbed - Kukiz [37]


It is in good Catholic Poland. Some PO misfits may finally see the error of their ways, turn their backs on all the cosmopolitan crap and return to the patriotic Polish fold.

And not to worry! You won't get expelled when true Poles come to the helm. They are very tolerant.

News / Poland is being robbed - Kukiz [37]


Funny thing, I kind of initially dimissed him as a rock musician figuring he'd be espousing anarcho-decadent views. Now it turns out that he's come round, is a good family man and has divested himself of his shamelss irrreligious youth and anticlericalism. He also seems to have seen through the PZPR-Michnikite (roundtable) pact with Wałęsa as the figleaf in the background.