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

News / John Paul II's Beatification [134]


you seriously overestimate JP2 or RCC influence on the lives of Africans (or for that matter Poles for example - ask how many Polish couples never use condoms) - Africans simply do not like it with condoms (see Simon Mol case) - some even believe(d) that having sex with a healthy person will cure their diseases (including STD) and that a condom is an obstacle in the process - this is not RCC or Christian legacy - other peoples though often equally exposed to RCC 'teaching' on condoms were not that affected because they had no such specific preferences or believes

News / John Paul II's Beatification [134]


a purely political/PR stunt to keep Poles attached to the RCC - and an attempt at creating personality cult (on the side of Polish media)- it will backfire sooner or later (it already does actually - young people are unmoved and even fed up with feeding them pope JP2 on every corner - I am fed up too)

Life / Understanding Poland's Birthday Tradition [66]


I have heard of this thing (actually read about it on the internet) - but boy I don't know where it comes from - I never personally known a person who would do or suffer from this - it was unheard of when I was younger - stupid is not a word enough to describe it - and now they say this is a tradition - God forbid

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


maybe you are right about what you write - I haven't read the transcripts - my excuse is some dialogues were supposedly made up by Gazeta Wyborcza ('tak lądują debeściaki') - (why don't they release the whole recording keeping it secret instead) - so it is important to know what version of the transcripts you actually mean

still you conveniently leave out what does not suit your theory and what actually became a consensus among Polish aviation experts who run the investigation

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


it's difficult to disscuss with someone's prejudices so I spare myself the effort

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

not for certain - there is some serious suspicion something was wrong with an important flight automatic procedure - there were plenty of made-up alleged 'facts' in the media who were never friendly (to say the least) to Kaczyńskis (mostly Gazeta Wyborcza) (not to mention blatant lies by some members of the current government regarding the investigation that have been revealed)- quite recently there were tests performed to check how the twin plane of the crashed Tu-154M would behave in similar conditions - their outcome was partly revealed to the public

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


sorry where did you get that rule from? one of Euclidean mathematics axioms? the consequence of general theory of relativity?


not that obvious - their is a serious version the plane did not work properly (and Russian ground flight control in Smolensk also made a couple of mistakes) - this is not to cast suspicion on Rusians - most probably the alleged malfunction of the plane (in a critical moment) was no consequence of any deliberate human action

History / PRUSSIA - Former Vassal of Poland later occupant | Nowadays Germany? [33]

and it's probably the most despised subject because it is compulsory :)

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


you should read more Rafał Ziemkiewicz (available on Rzeczpospolita daily website - rp.pl or his column on interia.pl
[fakty.interia.pl/felietony/ziemkiewicz]) - there is some covering up on the Russian side and so there is also on the side of the Polish goverment (Ziemkiewicz lists some of the major lies in one of his articles) but there is very little (if anything) to support the notion that the plane was somehow downed

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]


only a fraction of the heap is slag - most is the soil that needed to be removed to get to the coal seem - now the soil removed (a layer of up to 100 m is used to refill the exploited part of the mine

Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]


yeah Warsaw definitely needs two new similarily big stadiums - the national one and the Legia one - both at the same time - if you wish for some lowly conspiracy theory TVN- the current owner of Legia - was and is very much in support of PO (which Mrs HGW (really nasty names in Polish) represents)