Life / Hey, Nice Airport Wrocław! Or! Day #1 for an American Ex-Pat in Poland. [128]


Yea you were slippers once inside. Some see it as backward, i think it's not. Keep the floor clean longer, nothing wrong with that.

News / Poland's population on the rise [24]


Yea but is this due to natural increase, more babies born, or Poles returning home from abroad or immigration to Poland from other countries?

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


Especially minorities and Southerners..With accents i like the one they call Hollywood, it sounds really proper.


Polish no doubt is difficult to non Slavic language speakers, i think it's mostly to being just different. Since English initially developed out of German why does it use a C instead of a K like all other Germanic languages?

USA, Canada / Polish Americans on TV [14]

Adrianne Palicki from Red Dawn

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History / Poland's King Jan III Sobieski - the stopper of Turkish Janissaries! [64]


Yes the heavy cavalry charge which he led broke the Turkish defense which led to their defeat but it didn't really take a heavy toll with losses on the Turks. The Battle of Parkany a few days later was a much bigger less known victory.

Food / "Poland - it's the new Provence of food" [56]


You must be talking about canned and processed foods only, the home cooked food in Poland tastes great, especially in the countryside. I dunno how much MSG is used in Poland but i'm sure it's more common here in the States, everything from snack foods to Asian take out.

News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]


Not entirely I read an article that according to a recent poll Ukrainians like us the most, even more than Belorussians and Russians.

News / Polish language diacritical marks at risk! [20]


It's because most phones and computers are programed in the world language, English. If Polish was the dominant language in the world as English is all those ą ć ę would already be on keys.


It does make the word have more pizazz. You can for instance say ide instead of idę as many people talk and understand exactly what's someone saying but it wont sound as good.

News / Polish language diacritical marks at risk! [20]


I didn't say that English words in Polish are the problem with diacritical marks, quite the contrary since they don't have them. I was just talking about the influence of foreign words in Polish will mess up the language. The article speaks of it being inconvenient for people to write with the Polish diacritical marks via texting or typing on a computer, there are add on available for download to solve that problem, no need to be that lazy.

News / Polish language diacritical marks at risk! [20]

This is a different thread on this forum but with regards to creativity and the relative ease of making a new word I don't see my there are so many new English words added to the Polish language these days. It wouldn't be difficult at all to make the word sound Slavic, Polish.

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


One one I hear Poles, here in America use, is leser. I thought it's just people who misheard the English word loser, as in a person, and keep pronouncing it wrong. Is it also used in Poland nowadays??

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]


That's a Polish thing, in the summertime it's a fire with guys standing around with beer and laughing. In the winter it's a kulig with horses pulling sleighs to an area where a fire is started to stand around, drink vodka and laugh about stuff. It's more or less like a guys night out, to get away from their women for a while.


Well women wouldn't hang by stores with a bunch of men drinking beer cause it would make her look bad, like some *****.

Life / What are those scars and cuts on many Polish guys' arms? [21]


My one friend has several deep cuts on his arms. He said he got in a knife fight with another Polish guy while in Spain. So yes its from fighting, i dunno about gangs but hooliganism definitely.

History / Why will Poland always be the puppet of America? [159]


EU don't make me laugh. When Russia invaded Georgia they where ******* their pants, Russia isn't afraid of EU. Only the US can challenge them. I never said there would be a war, the missiles are to intimidate and prevent one, just in case.

History / Why will Poland always be the puppet of America? [159]


Everyone knows, even the Iranians, that it's not meant for them but Russia. Would you rather Poland was under Russia's control again? Remember those fun times? Poland is too small and weak militarily to make it on it's own so it needs a big brother.

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

Monika Pietrasinska can't argue about her.

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Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


Putting the Russian government aside, I like the Russian language.

News / 2014-2020 EU Cohesion funds for Poland [11]

I dont like Tusk myself but it's nice Poland is getting this money. It never got any Marshal Plan **** even former Nazi Germany did.

News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

Isn't is made out of kevlar? As for the shape and good head protection, it's a copy for the German WWII helmet.

News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

It won't their changing it once again. I really like this new one.
akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124526

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News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]


So far 1 site with 24 missiles is planned right on the northern border with Russia.

I think Poland's best bet on defense with it's rather limited military budget is large quantities of anti tank, anti aircraft, anti ship missiles. Poland can't really afford frigates, tanks, stealth fighters.

military.com/video/forces/military-foreign-forces/polish-army-firepower-2013/2096535314001

History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [63]


hospitals, housing especially, money was pumped into steel mills and heavy industry, which was on an ineversable decline and thus was wasted.

News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]

Going back to the original discussion will the newest version of the SM-3 be a protective, effective umbrella for Poland?

History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [63]


That people in Poland were starving because of shortages and empty shelves in stores. Meanwhile the truth was Poland until the 1970s was a major food exporter. There were shortages because Poland borrowed 25 billion in the early 70s from West German and US to build roads, hospital, industry... By 1980 it was time to pay back, with the economy is crisis, 870% inflation that year, it didn't have the money to pay. Some it paid with food. People didn't starve they drove to the countryside to buy directly from the farmers.

News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]

I'll agree on one thing. China, eventually, will be a much bigger foe for the US than the Soviet Union ever was!. The Cold War bankrupted the Soviet state. Meanwhile China has over 3 trillion dollars in foreign exchange reserves. While the US is bankrupt, except from what it collects annually in taxes and a few hundred billion in gold reserves.

News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]

You don't seam to understand that it will not catch up in the next one or two years but maybe 20! Even if the pentagon reduces its budget from 700 to 600 billion it's still several times more than China's. Most 70% of Chinese equipment it total trash! remembering the 60s and 70s, cheaply constructed Soviet copies. There's no comparing it to American firepower. This is what the PLAs General Chen Bingde said ""Although China's defense and military development has come a long way in recent years, a gaping gap between you and us remains," Chen said through an interpreter. He added, "China never intends to challenge the U.S."

Chen made a similar point later at a Pentagon news conference with his American counterpart, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen.

"I can tell you that China does not have the capability to challenge the United States," he said, adding that China's wealth and military strength pales in comparison with that of the U.S. He said China's navy is 20 years behind the U.S. Navy." I'm sure he didn't tell all the truth, but more or less he is correct.

News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]


I don't think so in the very least. 10 aircraft carriers plus 2 more under construction, Chinese 1. If naval strike missiles were so effective the US wouldn't be spending billion on air craft carriers.

News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]


Jeez, this story doesnt wanna go away. Especially since it supposedly is healthier than beef and pork while being cheaper.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat

Poland didn't put it in the burgers the countries who bought the horses from Poland did.

Genealogy / Can one become Polish? [21]


No, It's hard to even become a Polish citizen if you don't have Polish ancestry and you sure as hell can't become ethnically Polish, ur born into it, blood.