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

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.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

But an effective one, as you can readily see.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

"Normal, everyday" English need not be excessively or gratuitously vulgar either.

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.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

Quit projecting, Ironside! You're only making a bigger fool out of yourself than per usual LOL

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.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

... who are the foreign tourists whom you so despise!

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

...and money, but I guess that never occurred to you.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

Zlo = evil

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

In your (most) humble and ethnocentric opinion!

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

Brits then obviously aren't as hung up about their masculinity as Yanks-:)

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

Englíshmen though I've heard use "lovely" as a term of endearment in contrast with the Americans.

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? -:)