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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂
Last Post: 12 hrs ago
Threads: Total: 45 / Live: 31 / Archived: 14
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From: New York, USA
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Lyzko   
15 Jul 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Assimilated Jews desired nothing more than to blend into Polish society. Sadly, their shtettl brethren often didn't share this enthusiasm, hence spoiling things for everybody else, namely, for the savvy, well-meaning urbanite Polish Jews and, as in Germany, THIS was in the end the dirty shame of it all.
Lyzko   
13 Jul 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

Right. In many countries, Russia hardly the exception, the law remains THE LAW! This interpretive law stuff having Constitutional scholars coming out of the woodwork

to debate, wrangle, and endlessly discuss to death government decision and policy is a US thing, essentially unknown, indeed laughed at, throughout most of the world. Why, England doesn't even have a Constitution.
Lyzko   
13 Jul 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

The PC-mindless among us will deconstruct almost ANYTHING merely in order to prove a point! Is nothing sacred including one's own personal
taste within the privacy of their own viewing screens?? I dare you to show me a single icon, symbol or story which won't be "offensive" to at least one other person.

Ya can't please everybody:-)
Lyzko   
9 Jul 2021
Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]

I know that, only it shows the cross-pollination between Baltic and Slavic cultures, mutual unintelligibilty notwithstanding-:)
Lyzko   
8 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Exactly the sort you should NOT avoid, Rich!! If you want your vacation to be just like home....STAY HOME-:))
The smart travellers's the guy or gal who goes exactly to the places the guidebooks either omit or advise against.
Heck, if you don't believe me, ask Rick Steves.
Lyzko   
8 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Yep, gotta side with Oathbreaker on that one I'm afraid. @Mafketis, although frequently middle-aged Poles do for sure harbor an often suspicious nature, I did find the Polish language to be a definite ice breaker, especially among women. Again, only in my own experience.
Lyzko   
8 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Poles both those whom I've met on holiday as well as in Poland have a well-deserved reputation for being a forthright bunch, not likely to mince words, as the expression goes, yet famous for their hospitality:-) While I never had any specific difficulties, many Polish people are indeed given to firing lots of personal questions at American-born, Polish-speaking visitors who are thought to be Jewish, e.g. "No, dlaczego pan mowi po polsku?" etc.

However, I'm only speaking from my experience, in Poland as well as at home!
Lyzko   
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Faulty logic! It's therefore as "fraudulent" of the native to practice their lacking English on you according to your thinking.

And if they're speaking to you in a language other than their own, they are practicing, just as I am practicing my Polish in Poland
Lyzko   
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Oh, horrors Rich! Did you sprain your pride? You know I'm right, so why fight?-: )All countries automatically appreciate it when foreign tourists make a concerted effort to speak their language..even the Poles. I had zero problems whatsoever.
Lyzko   
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Communication though can be either aesthetically pleasing or ugly and purposely offensive-:) In emergency situations, knowing even a bare minimum of the target language can save a life. You people are simply parroting that '6O's nonsense.
Lyzko   
5 Jul 2021
Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

As but a mere visitor to any country, Poles visiting the States or certainly vice-versa, learning to speak or communicate properly in the target or native tongue of the country is nothing other than sheer common courtesy and respect, as I've expatiated here on a number of occasions. I'd go as far as to say such is a requirement.