Language / Endearment, friendship, etc. in Polish [38]

How about "Jaka sliczna!" as a term of romantic admiration?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

The Soviet Union had a lot of other cockamamy notions, any resemblance either to the truth or to reality being entirely coincidental-:)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

If the mother is of Jewish heritage, the immediate offspring is automatically Jewish, like Jesus. Clear enough?

Genealogy / Polish looks? - part 2 [81]

Just look at Duda.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Judaism is matrilineal.

Life / The Pole, as an example of a perfect Russophobe, in a spherical vacuum [42]

Much like accusing Poles of (lingering) Germanophobia, isn't it? Heck, their bigger, expansionist, mega-richer, bullying neighbor to the west maligns, marrauders, and murders her citizens, and now it's kumbaya time at the ol' hacienda? Polish Russophobia's imminently understandable, if for different reasons-:)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

Or to put a finer point on the question, what do GENTILES owe Jews?

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Yes, it does not concern Israel directly.

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

James Gandolfino was NOT an old-money W.A.S.P.!

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

Since accent is so inexorably tied to class in the UK as in few other places, what you say should come as no susprise.

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

If you mean the likes of a Walter Cronkite, Sam Donaldson or other great voices of the past, I'd have to agree!

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

No matter where one travels amid the admitted vastness of the entire English-speaking world, "B-A-T-H-R-O-O-M" may be pronounced any number of ways. Fine. However, any speakers substituting the "P-H"- sound for "T-H", as is the case among numerous African-Americans, are simply saying the word flat wrong, so stop bloody rationalizing plain laziness! Cultural relativism can't relativize that one.

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

...particularly when those learning it often don't see standard pronunciation as important!

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]

When Poles speak a foreign language, they have a chirping quality to their speech, as I've observed prior. Their English often sounds somewhat deliberate, perhaps because of final devoicing of certain struents as well as the fact that Polish has no schwa-sound as in English.

Life / Are Poles typically nasty people? [42]

@Paw & Milo, this apparent distrust reminds me some of stories I once heard from old GDR times of extra quiet folks at pub crawls. People figured they must be informers!

Life / Are Poles typically nasty people? [42]

Well then, guess my pal from work Romek plays piano aka pianofort and not pianie, 'cuz I never knew him to get plastered!

Please keep to the topic

Life / Are Poles typically nasty people? [42]

Is that anywhere near Zakopane? -:)

Life / Are Poles typically nasty people? [42]

Poles, as with everybody else, can be nasty or nice....depending on how they are treated, all prejudices aside.

Po polsku / Krótkie tłumaczenia z polskiego na angielski i z angielskiego na polski [32]

Dziekuje za poprawienia-:)

Po polsku / Krótkie tłumaczenia z polskiego na angielski i z angielskiego na polski [32]

NIEWOLNIK, SLYNNOSC, WOLNOSC, SLUGA, NIEPODLEGLOSC, JENIEC

Language / Help translating historical passage in Polish [11]

Must then be either UK or exclusively arcane usage.

Language / Help translating historical passage in Polish [11]

In which context? The English is not clear.

Language / Help translating historical passage in Polish [11]

Thank you! Figured it was something like that-:)

Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]

Not only possible, Pawian, but the only choice in US vernacular!

Language / Help translating historical passage in Polish [11]

I've also seen the word "goniec" for "hunter". Perhaps the synonymous distinction in English between "huntsman" vs. "hunter".

Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]

...slow POKE, maybe? -:)

Life / Jerzy Kosinski - Polish author and liar [127]

Poles and Jews are closer.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski - Polish author and liar [127]

Try "Polish-born Jews" on for size.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski - Polish author and liar [127]

What were they then, moron? Chinese? If it looks, quacks, acts like a duck, guess what, Rich, IT'S A DUCK, (Polish or otherwise. lol

Life / Jerzy Kosinski - Polish author and liar [127]

Tuwim, Róziewicz etc. were both native-born Polish nationals of the Jewish faith! They knew only the Polish tongue and from what I've gleaned, had never even been to Israel-:) And you people want to kill their love and their pride? Wstydzcie sie!!