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Des Essientes   
11 Jul 2011
Travel / Why so many Indian Restaurants in Poland? Which one is the best? [42]

Tamls have their own language, which is spoken in Singapore and Sri Lanka - the word Kari is a Tamil word, not an Indian one.

Yes Tamils have their own language, and it is spoken outside of India, but mostly inside of India, in Tamilnadu, which is in the South of India. Tamil is an Indian laguage. It seems that you, and this forum's unfortunate Harry, are mistakenly assuming that the Northern Indian lingua franca called Hindi is "Indian" while Tamil is not. Both Hindi and Tamil are Indian languages. The latter is not an Indo-European language, but it is Indian nonetheless.
Des Essientes   
1 Jul 2011
Language / Is Polish amongst the best-sounding languages in the world? [123]

Polish is an ugly language

the 'ugly' nature of Polish comes from the clumsy way that the Latin alphabet has been used for Polish.

So two Polonophobic trolls have a meeting of their gnarled sick minds in which the former pretends Polish sounds ugly, and the latter affirms this asinine assertion, and pretends that it is the Latin alphabet that is to blame. What a laughable scene. You two should be in a carnival freak show and have rotten vegetables thrown at you.
Des Essientes   
27 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish and East European prostitutes in the UK [240]

the fact still remains Slavic women are sluts usually.

This is not a fact but an unfounded assertion by a moron trying to provoke people.
Des Essientes   
13 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

Lols,here we go again...........what web site do you get all this gubbins from matey? Trust me,one day soon someone is going to make you look such a dick when they find it :)

You will look in vain for such a website because all my "ghubins", if I understand what this bizzarre word is refering to, come from my memory of the books I have read and when I open the volume to find the passage, that I've been reminded of, I always know whether it will be on the righthand or the lefthand page because I can sort of see it in my mindseye.

I own a First Edition of Confessions'

Mine was published in 1995 and it cost me 25 cents. You should trade yours for an immense amount of laudenum, light the fire, order your servant to be ready with the tea, and live the dream!
Des Essientes   
12 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

Still don't get your message

My message was directed at Daisy who claimed, in post #75, that English is not "owned" by Anglophonic Americans. I wanted to remind her that English is not native to Britain and so if Americans don't own English, because it didn't originate in America, then neither do the British because it came to their islands from elsewhere too.
Des Essientes   
12 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

I think you greatly oversimplify this.

Sure the language has had additions over the years but the fact remains that English is named after the Angles who came from Denmark and so the English should be more circumspect when they claim that Anglophonic Americans don't have their own native language because neither do they. The Romans didn't alter English because the Angles arrived in England after the Romans left. The Normans did make the language prettier by introducing French words.
Des Essientes   
12 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

On another note why so many people think of PF as some kind of donkey race where the first prize is a shriveled carrot grown on piss and ego?

Yeah, why are such people on the forum like this piece of dung Delphiandope who claims the British own Poland?
Des Essientes   
11 Jun 2011
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

I think if you told people you were entirely Russian no one would doubt you, but the only time I ever know I am seeing Russians is at the horsetrack where they hangout in a group speaking Russian and these guys are all middle-aged and wearing ridiculously cut and colored suits and gaudy jewelry. You definitely wouldn't blend into that crowd
Des Essientes   
9 Jun 2011
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

what do you think I look like?

You look more Polish than Russian, alot like one of my aunts in fact
Des Essientes   
9 Jun 2011
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

I think the poster meant a man with a family crest, in other words a member of the szlachta. My second guess would be a man with a high hairdoo.
Des Essientes   
8 Jun 2011
History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [221]

What about Bogusław Radziwiłł? Was he anything like Sienkiewicz's portrayal of him in The Deluge? With a super effeminate powdered head attached to a herculean body his incongrousness made him the quintessential Baroque villian in my opinion.
Des Essientes   
8 Jun 2011
History / Historic Polish-Japanese intelligence cooperation [21]

But what about the Polish-Japanese cooperation before?

Piłsudski went to Japan during the Russo-Japanese War and urged the Japanese to allow their Polish POWs to arm themselves and fight against the Russians but the Japanese declined.
Des Essientes   
8 Jun 2011
History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [221]

How they dealt with it is can today seem like stupid but remember that those magnates could never guess that their "ally" mother Russia would choose to take a large part of the country as a war booty.

You honestly believe that those magnates could never guess that that was what would happen despite the precedent of the First Partition?
Des Essientes   
8 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [102]

Nietzsche claimed to be Polish in his book Ecce Homo and so you are very wrong in claiming that he denied being Polish.
Des Essientes   
8 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [102]

I was born in the U.S as Matt not Matuesz. But, I am still Polish.

Charles Bukowski's father was born in Los Angeles and his parents named him Heinrich Karl Bukowski.
Des Essientes   
8 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [102]

Charles Bukowski's father was Polish American.

Listen man, I have a biography of Charles Bukowski in my library and he and his father considered themselves German-Americans. His father spoke German not Polish. There is no German conspiracy to deny his Polishness. If you had any idea regarding the lecherous nature of much of the stuff he wrote you would understand that many Germans would be glad to deny his Germaness.
Des Essientes   
8 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [102]

Charles Bukowski was an influential 20th-century poet and author. He was born in Andernach, Germany, in 1920, to a German mother and a Polish-American father.

His father was not Polish-American. Charles Bukowski's father's parents migrated to the USA from Germany. Charles Bukowski's father was named Heinrich Karl Bukowski. Do you honestly believe a Polish family would haven given their son such names?
Des Essientes   
7 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [102]

Charles Bukowski had a Polish American father

Charles Bukowski's father was a German-American and his mother was a German whom his father met during World War One. There are millions of Germans that bear Slavic surnames. Charles Bukowski drove a Volkswagon Beetle with an Iron Cross hanging from the rear-view mirror.
Des Essientes   
7 Jun 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [102]

Some other great writers had Polish roots like Nikola Gogol, Dostoevsky & Charles Bukowski.

Gogol did have Polish ancestors but Nikolai Gogol hated Poles fanatically, see his novella Taras Bulba. Fyodor Dostoevsky was also a fanatical Russian nationalist who also maligned Poles in his stories, and his father's ancestors were Lithuanians not Poles. Charles Bukowski was a German-American.
Des Essientes   
6 Jun 2011
Genealogy / Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [264]

IndoEuropean...This term does not refer to a common ethnic-racial group from whence all those speakers above originate, you know that right, dude!

You are right Nick "Indo-European" is not the term that refers to the ethnic-racial group from which the Indo-European speakers originate. The proper term for the speakers of the original language from which all the other Indo-European languages can trace their genealogy is Proto-Indo-Europeans. No one knows what these people looked like and as they spread throughout Asia and Europe they interbred with the peoples already living in the places they migrated to, and so today's Indo-Europeans are all an ethnical mix with both Proto-Indo-European and non-Proto-Indo-European origins.
Des Essientes   
6 Jun 2011
Genealogy / Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [264]

Slavic & Baltic languages are the closest to Pre Indo-European languages.

Pre-Indo-European Languages? How would a linguist go about studying such languages? Surely you must mean Proto-Indo-European. If so, then you are right about Baltic being the closest living language branch to Proto-Indo-European, but wrong about Slavic. The other language closest to Proto-Indo-European is Sanskrit, which died out as a lingua franca before the time of the Buddha but has been kept around in its ancient state, by the Brahmins, for saceradotal purposes .