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

better compare "Wystarczy być" {Being There?} and "Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy... "The Painted Bird" is another cup of tea

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

there is a very interesting book by Joanna Siedlecka - "Czarny ptasior" {The Black Bird}, published in 1994 - about Jerzy Kosiński's youth

News / The spiritual heirs of the Polish Communist Party [91]

Freedom of speech depends of who is speaking. Bartoszewski can rave freely about "dyplomatołki" and "bydło", call grief after the Smoleńsk "nekrofilia", Niesiołowski is free to call X "chory z nienawiści", "kłamca" etc but Rymkiewicz has to shut up....

As to the freedom of speech in media, I'm a journalist and I have seen this "freedom" at work.

News / The spiritual heirs of the Polish Communist Party [91]


why? And why is this "revelation"?

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]


unfortunately - it has. Wolinska claimed, that she was accused of court crime, BECAUSE she was Jewish... And she was as white and innocent as a lily...

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]


here you have a CV of Henryk Gołebiewski, one of child-actor from these times.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Go%C5%82%C4%99biewski_(aktor)
Do you suggest, that his father also was a traitor and/or big commie fish?

Life / Polish home remedies for cold, stomach ache, migraine? [49]

my grandmother's receipts: to eat
1. The one peeled lemon without sugar -
2. a spoon of "anti-migraine" jam from the whole lemons

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Fact. It's about murder of the whole polish villages: Koniuchy, Naliboki by jewish-soviets "partisans"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naliboki_massacre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koniuchy_massacre

citinet.net/ak/polska.php?Page=66&Lang=EN
minelinks.com/war/bandits_1.html

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]


Alleged is only that anyone from brothers Bielski killed these peasants with their own hands, but their partisants did. And brothers Bielski were no saints

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-495420/Jewish-hero-rescued-Jews-Nazis-charged-conning-Holocaust-survivor.html

upi.com/Top_News/2008/02/05/Fla-couple-hid-elderly-neighbor-in-Poland/UPI-97511202263237

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]


here is another link
upi.com/Top_News/2008/02/05/Fla-couple-hid-elderly-neighbor-in-Poland/UPI-97511202263237/

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]


hmmm... I think this 'owicz" suggested rather town dwellers [like -in Sebastian Klonowic/z] , if joined with first name for example: Bogdanowicz pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanowicz_(herb_szlachecki) - it means that this family was ennobled

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


in Rzeszów also were wailing...

Love / Cheating from spouses. Is cheating very common in Poland ? [116]

no, it's not

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]


it could be albo Maryla/Maryjka or Maja/Majka or Mania
Marynia

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]


it could be also: Tunia, Tuśka, Tusia

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

Jan Matejko - his father was Czech, who married polish woman and lived with his family near Cracow

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]


pathetic, even if it was meant to be a joke

as to the other polish Czechs:
Wacław Żywny - teacher of Fryderyk Chopin
Igor Neverly - writer [1/3 Czech]
Leopold Staff - very good poet, son of Frantisek Staff, confectioner from Lvov
Jan Styka - painter, son of Czech-austrian officer
Karol Szajnocha - famous historian, writer, son of germanized Czech, Scheinoha-Vtelenský, and polish woman
Aleksander Augezdecky - XVI century pilish printer and editor

Language / Polish baby talk [20]

dzidzi - little child
amciu - eat
piciu-piciu - drink
tup tup [toop toop] - walk

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


No, because in '43 AK have almost no weapons then!
From '43 to 44' they were producing machine gun Sten, hand granades {filipinka, sidolówka}, Molotov cocktails, flamethrowers, granade launchers, mortars, explosives, even buying weapons from german soldiers, whose morale was much lower then....


no, it wasn't

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

and what about these rapes by Red Army soldiers? My mother's friend was concentration camp prisoner of Majdanek - she told me, that "molodcy' raped even these starved and filthy, half-dead women....

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]


jon357
argumentum ad personam is no argumentum at all

History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [83]

more insults? It's no use to write more...

History / Polish military uniforms [49]


hmmm... I could agree, if you said so about Cnut the Great's invasion in 1015....

Life / Polish sentimental ballads [38]

do you like it?
youtube.com/watch?v=wcO-YZyK86M&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=YutTzWWLO6w&feature=related

and this one?
youtube.com/watch?v=g9z9kt1dx44&feature=related

or this?
youtube.com/watch?v=AXnUJCFKaKg&feature=related

History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [221]


Why traitor? I think he simply understand Napoleon too well - that he saw Poland only as a source of cannon fodder, food and horses, that he never intended to re-create Poland. Kościuszko was dissapointed and disillusioned man, very ill if not bedridden, but he took the last effort to do somethng for his country and met tzar Alexander in Braunau - only to be disappointed again

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]

Węgrzyn - hungarian wine
"Throughout later history, the Polish aristocracy has imported and consumed wine on a large scale. Until the 1930s, some Bordeaux châteaux were bottling wine with labels in Polish (Léoville-Barton is an example). However, the preferred wine here appears to have been Hungarian, or 'wegrzyn' as it was referred to ('Wegry' being the Polish word for Hungary). The influence Polish demand had on wine production in Hungary is reflected by the fact ..."

There was a polish proverb: Nie masz wina nad węgrzyna [There is no wine as hungarian wine]

And:
"Hungariae natum, Poloniae educatum" Zrodzone na Węgrzech, wykształcone w Polsce {Born in Hungary, educated in Poland}.
Kontusz
Kontusz (from Polish language; plural kontusze; also spelled in English language as Kontush or Kuntush from Ukrainian: Кунтуш) (originally Hungarian Köntösis - robe) - a type of outer garment worn by the Hungarian, Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian male nobility (szlachta). It became popular in the 16th century and came to the lands that were under Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule via Hungary from Turkey. In the 17th century, worn over an inner garment (żupan), the kontusz became a notable element of male Polish national and Ukrainian cossack attire.

Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

I have called my grandmother "busia". I was born in Lublin, my grandmother - somewhere in Podole...

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [202]

in Warsaw - sunshine

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

which language is? English? Frogs=French.
French? Le Rosbif = Englishman

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


no, its not. It's derived from old-slavic volxъ - a man of roman origin, borrowed from old-german "walxa" - romanus/roman
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82osi