History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Hey Rich, why don't you campaign for the AfD? I understand they're lookíng for support abroad lol

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

You purposely miss the point, don't you.

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Baloney! She was only guilty of naivete.

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

Rwanda, as with the Yugoslavian crisis in the '90's, was considered more of an "ethnic cleansiing", not technically a genocide, since Tutus and their fellow tribesman belong to the SAME race, albeit to a different subgroup. Serbs and Bosnians were of different faiths, yet also both of the same race.

In the case of the Jews, Hitler's autobiography makes it abundantly clear that he considered the Jews for a different, moreover, an inferior, race, apart from that of Italians, French, Germans, Poles etc... Rosenberg as well as Houston Stewart Chamberlain a generation earlier wrote of a Negroid.

Oriental, White, and a Jewish race.

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

But the Nazis were the one causing all that inspeakably ghastly business in the first place and so you're arguing in a vacuum, as is Whoopie.

Also, your last sentence makes no sense. " What the Nazis thought is irrelevant. What they did isn't" is how it it should read.

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Merkel was indeed misguided on issues, chiefly, the migrant situation. She was in this respect a typical product of her generation, just as Adenauer was of his or any number of other German heads of state:-)

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

Maf & Milo,
Whoopie was saying verbatim now, that the Holocaust was NOT a racial agenda because Jews are white rather than colored. Sure, that's true, yet this was the opposite of what influenced the Nazis, who in fact saw the Jews as a separate race, thus, were in fact racists.

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

About the latter, I'm in utter accord, Milo! And it's been this strangling of free expression which to this day continues to equate "free" speech with unprotected hate speech.

It's up to the German education system to educate youngsters from early on, along of course with their parents, as to how to modulate expressing an honest opinion and prevent it from becoming a rant or tirade against another person or persons.

A break up of the EU on the other hand, would seem to empower PEGIDA and her supporters, making folks like Hoecke and Gauland more of a threat!

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

But you forget, the Nazis saw the Jews as a different RACE, essentially non-white, therefore, non-Aryan. Both you and Whoopie, it seems, got it wrong....again.

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Uh-uh, pal. Ol' Germany's strong enough to survive on her own, we're not talkin' 21st century Marshall Plan here!

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Tough though to paper over a sterling reputation merely because of latent missteps in current leadership, Maf.
Sure Scholz looks thus far like lame duck, you can't erase generations of Siemens, Krupp, Schering, BMW, Audi, SAP etc. in a matter of months.

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

Whoopi should stick to comedy and her own business enterprise, period!
Her comments of earlier this week made me sick and are an insult to both survivors as well as modern history.

Clearly she's as ignorant of world events as she is mega savvy about her industry.

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Poland was erstwhile considered the country of farmland and space.
while Germany was the country of industry, technology, and know-how.
No longer!

While Germany is still the lean, mean business machine of the Continent, Poland is scarcely a backwater nowadays and is perhaps the Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe with a travel willing, financially flexible work force:-)

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

@Cojestdocholery,
It's apparent you've never been to Torquay, nor have you visited Devon, Bornemouth or much of the North Country, or you wouldn't make such idiotic remarks!

Zakopane or Tatry have their own special beauty, but surely to poor foreigners especially, England offers material comforts probably unknown in Third World nations:-)

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Can't hurt, can it?

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

My advice to all the xenophobes on PF: If you don't want "those people" coming to your country, don't make England so damnably attractive and singularly inviting to such people! A drop-dead gorgeous female saunters down the street to cat calls, vulgarities, and groping, but then asks why.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

Prepositions in any language which uses them are almost never, if ever, translated verbatim.
Frequently, it will appear as if they track with the other language, e.g Polish-English, but instances of an exact equivalent are rare!

Examples of some differences in prepositional usage between Polish vs. [American] English:

w piatek = ON (rather than "in") Friday
pod wieczorem = TOWARDS (rather than literally "under") evening
nad Renem = ON/ALONG (not "over" or "above") the Rhine
na krzesle = IN (preferrable to "on") the chair

etc.

Off-Topic / Have you ever gotten teary eyed about leaving a foreign city? [36]

Translation: Croatian is nothing more than Serbian. Why all this bickering over papal rights?
Why I should I worry how foreigners express themselves in a virtual language.
Serbia has endured enough rape of her people, mutilation of her country, and so why not of her language as well?

Off-Topic / Have you ever gotten teary eyed about leaving a foreign city? [36]

Oh, quit bandying words, Crow! Admit that you apply a double standard, writing poor English while insisting that foreigners who write in Croatian, write correctly.

Off-Topic / Have you ever gotten teary eyed about leaving a foreign city? [36]

For once, I can unequivocally concur, Rich!
@Crow, either write CORRECTLY in the language you're using, or leave it to the native speakers of the language in which you are attempting communication. Your writing has such a foreign accent, it's often difficult to understand what you're saying. This you share with Strzelec and a number of others here on PF.

When writing in English, obey Anglo-Saxon standards of conventional usage, save for creative writing. When writing in Polish, I attempt Polish standards and I'm sure when a foreigner writes in Croatian, you'd demand they follow Croatian standards.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

@Milo, my point was simply that Mickiewicz WAS indeed an ethnic Lithuanian, although he regarded Polish as his rightful jezyk ojczysty (lit. "pure" or clean tongue) aka mother tongue vs.jezyk ojcowy or "father tongue":-)

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

I've noticed a decided Baltic influence among numerous Poles, particularly women whom I've met of late. No surprise, once again, considering the fact that Poland's national poet thought of himself as a Lithuanian by descent:-)

History / Why did Hitler call Poles Half Jews? [98]

Oh, come one Alien!! Far, far less than that, except perhaps in places like Krakow.
The Jews were a drop in the bucket throughout Europe, constituting only a possible majority in certain professions, historically, the least popular, such as tax collection or as pawnbrokers:-)

Polonia / Polish workers in Denmark [41]

You'll find them rough, but you'll find them ready....willing, and able.
Poles tend to be linguists, in their own way, not too terribly different from the Danes! Many already know German, some Russian and English.
Danish certainly won't be much of a stretch!

Held og lykke med dig:-)

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Why be proud of mortality? It sounds as though you wish for Polish mothers to expire during childbirth.
You got a screw loose, Richie?

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Sarcasm meant to mask poor language skills, no doubt.
I also recognize true sarcasm when I see it.

No, you're angry at Poland for exclusively personal reasons and so are rationalizing your own frustrations by taking it out on the Poles, Poland, even the Polish language:-)

If I failed in my country, maybe I too would be angry at the US, hence at the English language. That too would also have everything to do with my own failures and little to anything to do with the US!

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

@Rich, for your further edification, "heritage" = dziedzictwo. Apparently, you don't even know basic English! LOL

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

You can't deny your heritage, so don't even bother trying!

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

No, but to communicate-:)

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

False friends abound in closely related languages, in Germanic, Romance too, as well as Slavic:-)