History / Polish military in 1939 in pictures. [107]

Hi, I'm a Pole, but I decided to join to clear out some rubbish, that was written...


FT-17 was junk, nothing more, than slow-moving pillbox, while PzI was fit to manoeuvre warfare against infantry - and against tankettes as well. By the way, it was 7.92 mm MG, not 8 mm.


47 mm gun (22 tanks were armed this way, plus 16 MG-armed ones). 32 tanks took part in the campaign in mobilized units, plus some 4-5 fought again the Soviets in improvised units.


Definitely not "won". The Poles lost all equipment and couldn't manage to break to Lviv, though they inflicted some losses as well.


Definitely not. It had good anti-tank gun, but weak armour. Apart from "medium" tanks Pz.3, I'd say, that PzKpfw-35(t) was better in its weight class (similar armament and speed, but one MG more, and better armour). And PzKpfw-38(t) was probably the best one - all the same, but more modern design.


Closer to the first figure.

Regards,
Pibwl

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


or: "k**wo podła ty!"
youtube.com/watch?v=7pD2h1XfRj0
(quite unusual order of words, btw)


WRONG! "Ty ch*ju" :-)
Most Poles don't know how to spell it correctly, as is evident from graffiti on walls, but there should be "ch" :-)

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

As a word, "murzyn" is perfectly neutral. I can't even imagine HOW to speak it in an offensive way. Racists would definitely use other words, or at least put a word "murzyn" in a derogatory context, but the word itself is neutral.

However, the problem I see is, WHY use words describing somebody's race at all? That's why using any word pointing out, that somebody is not white (by default), may be considered racist. What for is referring to one's skin - unless there is a reason to do so?

Regarding "Murzynek Bambo" - it was written in other times, when "colonial" attitude to poor, uneducated and not so 'civilized' African people was common (of course it was even more common in Western world, which had its colonies). There is a proverb in Poland, that something is 100 years behind murzyns. The poem itself is sympathetic, but I personally don't like it too much, for these reasons.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

By the way, use of "h" and "ch" comes from a history, and is similar in some other Slavic languages. In the past, "h" and "ch" were spoken differently, now they're exactly the same (maybe apart from some traditional folk dialects).

Note, that "ch" corresponds with the Russian "x" (kh) and Czech "ch" (like in word, respectively: chleb / khlyeb / chleba ). The Polish "h" usually corresponds with the Russian "g" (like herb / gierb ) and Czech "h".

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


You're right!... I actually fought about apparently rare Czech words of foreign origin, like "halo" (same in Polish)

It's worth mentioning, that Czech 'h' corresponds with Russian 'g' as well (glavnyi, golos, kniga).

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]


That's exactly from where it originated :-)

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


"...What shall we use
To fill the empty spaces
Where we used to talk?..."

;-)


Grazhdanin Kalenko.

Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]


..according to Goya :-)

Nice, heartwarming low-budget film, that I recommend, is "Sztuczki" (Tricks) -
imdb.com/title/tt1094278

It was most awarded Polish film of recent years, also on foreign festivals.

Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

I can also recommend a 1971 comedy "Nie lubię poniedziałku" (I don't like Monday) imdb.com/title/tt0067484
It's a light and dynamic bunch of intersecting stories of several people during one day in Warsaw. It captures a live in Poland in the 60s, but is less hermetic (and less sarcastic), than "Miś" or "Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz" (which are classic lampoons of a life in communist times, but probably lose half of humour for a viewer, who doesn't know, what communism looked like).

News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

Right. I don't.