Genealogy / Half Polish half Persian? I can't possibly be alone in the whole world with this mix? [34]


Better ask yourself if someone born in Israel without an ounce of Jewish blood in him or that of none Israeli citizen is automatically an Israeli citizen just because he was born there? Poland just like Israel follows the law of blood as the primary mechanism through which one may obtain citizenships, rather than jus soli like in US. US citizen laws do not apply to neither Poland nor Israel.

Law / Getting a Visa to Poland, really that hard? [19]


Actually that is irrelevant in this process, what matters most to the official is keeping the quota for visa denial at 10% or whatever it is these days. It's like a crap shoot, wherever the dice may fall, they've always been found of lottery system in these matters.

Love / Do Polish guys tend to take things slow with regards to sex? [44]


Very much so, I for one like to enjoy life's pleasures but if she's attractive and late for date with her boyfriend I wouldn't rule out a quickie. ;)

The only way for you to know what the problem is, is to ask him directly. Sexier outfit might also do the trick if you don't want to take a direct route, nothing slutty mind you, stimulating but classy, works on me.

News / Skins vs anarchists in Warsaw [93]


And the forth was taken in 2007 regurgitated by the press time and time again, btw wrong city and it was met with counter demonstrations, pictures were not posted here for obvious reason, it would diminish the point they try to make.

redink.pl

News / Skins vs anarchists in Warsaw [93]


Ah! The words of a closet nazi himself with crowd control tactics strait out of their play book or perhaps a deep rooted communist traditions are bleeding through. Your paranoia and insecurity of opposing political view to your own makes you the same entity no matter what facade you put on the outside to disguise that fact.

News / Poland to sign FATCA, USA will get information about bank accounts [67]


BS. VWP rejection threshold is set at 3% not 10. Poland has been under 10% for a while now, besides the rejection rate based on a potential of an applicant to overstay his/her welcome is highly subjective, based solely on an intuitive judgments of US embassy and consulate personnel. Time to take a closer look at 1991 Polish law made in haste dealing with US visitors to Poland and perhaps overturn it like Brazil did few years earlier.

News / Poland to sign FATCA, USA will get information about bank accounts [67]

Your statement is true however I was talking about Poland doing a tit for tat diplomacy here and perhaps make a few hundred bucks on every Yank that's rejected.

Love / My wife has been secretly sending money back to Poland [16]

Call me old fashion but the master of the house always pays his bill, there's a different name for a man that has women working for him. Perhaps it's time to reconsider your nick or simply stop Trolling.

Language / Please help me understand Polish adverbs [30]


That's because spoken language expresses feelings as well, in this example think of it in terms of having reservation, indifference or reluctance of doing something that's when you'll use "dobra" instead of making a definite statement "dobrze". In English you often do that by inclination ie. "OK OK I'll do it" (reluctant) vs."Ok, I'll do it" (definite). In Polish besides the inclination it takes on a different form as well, "dobra dobra, zrobi się" (I'll get around to it) vs. "dobrze, zrobione" (consider it done).


Nothing sad about it, your intuition and observation is on the money, you pretty much answered your own question.

Language / Please help me understand Polish adverbs [30]


Here the dog is performing two different tasks (wącha - just sniffing around, węszy - he's tracking). Word to the wise, when you're talking about a person performing the very same task, wąchać is fine as he's just inhaling some kind of aroma but if you say węszy you give it a whole new meaning, at this point he/she is snooping.


Czuje się zapach po burzy, siana, świeżego prania, chleba a nawet psia kupe skoro mowa o psach. LOL

Language / How can I perfect my Polish grammar? [10]

Wow! What a load of old bollocks, pure nonsense. Illiterate immigrants - indeed.
Are Yanks so far up their own arse they won't even bother to think before putting something like this in writing? After all it just shows your own ignorance of the world around you. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.

Language / How can I perfect my Polish grammar? [10]


Just tell me, when was the last time you came across an illiterate immigrant? Your grandparents story touching as it is, does not reflect the reality of the world now and not even back then. Your stereotypical immigrant from Poland was not poor but immigrated for political reasons. In the past 20 or so years an average immigrant even though looking for a job is still more likely to have more education under his belt then you. Lacking the language of the country one immigrates to does not make him/her illiterate.

Language / How can I perfect my Polish grammar? [10]

Your grandparents' saga was perhaps typical to the Polish Jews living in shtetl, closed off from the rest of the polish society by their own choice, speaking their own language instead of the country they lived in very much so like Amish communities in US, together but separate. Struggling with polish language is really no surprise there. Look at a thread "polish ww11 era letters can't read" and other like that, where the poor farmers somehow managed to whip up a pretty long correspondence to communicate with their illiterate relatives in US. That alone should perhaps make you rethink you theory. Looking through Ellis Island records one does not find X in place where the signature should be either.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Get your facts straight, all articles state the same, they decided to party on a stairwell of the wrong building where the thugs lived not their own apartment. Unprovoked? My arse, Burst in? My arse.

Now the prosecutor is seeking witnesses to support the thesis of how two thugs attacked five slightly drunk, perhaps drugged and rowdy but otherwise polite and innocent people who decided to have a party on a stairwell of an apartment building they do not live in.

No one likes people who make noise on the stairwell of the building even more so if they themselves do not live there. Disliking does not give reason for beating or killing but unfortunately that's how it all ended in an altercation on the street after they've been told to get out and simply moved the party in front of the building. Somehow it's hard to believe they themselves are innocent in all of that and got their arse kicked just for the hell of it.

If you are looking for trouble you'll find it.

Life / Christmas carol singers - is this a Polish Christmas tradition? [13]


Another dumb comment made by a Yank. Don't kid yourself KKK is a hate group of Anglo-Saxon blood at least that's what those southern mutts claim, in order to be one you have to be a WASP, fat chance of that in a Slavic and Catholic country. One has to know what P stands for in WASP to grasp the meaning hence the dumb reference on my part. If by "pikey" you mean a gypsy you're also wrong. Your ignorant statement speaks volumes, face it you're just a grumpy cheap bastard with no respect for other cultures or traditions.

Language / Polish Proficiency Test? [9]

Polish Supplementary School Council of America based in NY administers Regents exam of Polish as a foreign language approved by the Centre for East European Studies at Columbia University. RU is one of the places where you can take this exam. Their policy for the candidates is rather strict, you must be an American high school student and provide proof that you have been learning Polish language other than home environment for a substantial period of time or have completed at least primary education in Poland. Even if you do not qualify to take this exam I'm sure they would provide some kind of guidance. Good luck.

USA, Canada / Bilateral Visa Waiver Agreement between USA and Poland [47]

Promise? LOL
The only solution to this is as stated by Amorbitpole. Tit for tat diplomacy always works the best.

Language / Polish Proficiency Test? [9]


Don't give up so easily. They conduct an oral interview with candidates, perhaps taking a course before the next exam which is usually held in October would qualify you provided your Polish is good enough, so why not giving them a call? See what they say. Perhaps they will suggest something that might suit your situation better, time is getting short for you. You have to knock on every door available to you if you want to achieve your goals.

USA, Canada / Bilateral Visa Waiver Agreement between USA and Poland [47]


Who shads crocodile tears or not for that matter is irrelevant, it's the principal that counts.


You missed it by a long shot, the point is that if a block like EU can't have a universal policy that applies equally to all member states when dealing with US or any other state on any matter than it undermines their strength both internally and externally in negotiating for the block as a whole. Such organization is just a one big joke for each and every state has their own bilateral agreements that they will adhere to anyway rendering EU irrelevant in the process. Not that I ever was a big fan of the EU in the first place but it sure makes it seem like a weak entity that's not fully recognized by any outside state which reserves the right of having a bilateral agreement with each and every state within its borders. It (the EU that is) look like a wimp with no real legitimacy or authority behind it on international arena.

Language / What is the difference between BYĆ W STANIE, UMIEĆ, and MÓC? [18]

Same difference as in English
1 Being capable of
2 Know how and
3 Being able

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


Contemporary use of the word has not changed, there simply was no reason for it. Unlike the western European countries and the US where a significant portion of the population consisted of minorities and the word was mangled in your respective languages to reflect that negative feeling toward certain groups of people where over time you assigned a negative connotation to it, this is not the case in Poland. The only negative use of this word that percolated to the society in general in the last 20 years or so is through hip hop culture, again an imported idea from the west mainly US. Most people were never exposed or lived in close proximity to minorities to simply develop this racist notion of yours that still dominates the general attitude of the Anglo speaking countries. Those that did were for the most part exposed to foreign students, again a class that does not presents itself in negative way, so what makes you think that this is all BS and an excuse. You simply have a preconceived notion of what this word is and you apply your way of reasoning to Polish language through mistranslation of your own native language passing it on to Polish language, as if. In my opinion this badly reflects on you. You want it so bad to be the case, that you unconsciously reveal yourself to be a bigot and a closet racist. Not only do you still think of minorities in the Anglo way but you want to impose your way of thinking on 40 million Poles and what this word might mean to them just because you think of it in those terms.

Love / Why are Polish girls so attracted to German boys? [52]


Perhaps German men are like Polish men both are not willing to date ugly German girls, can't say that I blame them.

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


Again that's just your opinion isn't it?


So is the case in Polish, almost never used, perhaps in some obscure literature that most people hardly ever read.


Hardly, just pointing out that the western artist themselves are trying to make an imprint on Polish society which is starting to take hold on younger generation.


Somehow I'm not surprised such language and the meaning it carries is used in your household, than again you yourself are a recent immigrant to Poland so whatever meaning of the word that is used in your household in no way reflects on what is meant by it in typical Polish family.


Again if you read my statement carefully you would see I have acknowledge the fact that it is not, you yourself have used it in your quote to illustrate it as a contradiction LOL.

Love / Why are Polish girls so attracted to German boys? [52]

You mean asylums, like in Turks, as they say the beauty is in the eye of a beholder. No need to take offence if you can't recognize sarcasm, this obviously is a baiting thread posted by one of your own I presume.

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


That's what you get when you substitute one chav location for another, haven't really climbed that social letter, have you?


Don't kid yourself, mixed marriages are still a very tiny percentage of households in Poland so by very definition your household is not typical Polish household is it. Can't comment on what is said or not in your house as you never invited me for a beer btw recent is a relative term so what is not to you might very well be recent to me, either way it can't be more than twenty years and more than half of your life spent in Poland for you to be an expert on what Polish people mean when they say .....


Nope, you grew up with this concept therefor you see it that way, As I have said.

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


Yes you did, as a matter of fact yesterday on this very thread when you quoted Lenka.



This makes you a Liar no matter how hard you deny it.

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


Pathetic? 1960's height of civil rights movement, segregation etc. The only meaning was to insult certain section of the population stating that it's LIKE that you put it on equal terms. You argue for argument sake but in my eyes you're just too stupid to realize the significance of your own words, Don't bother explaining yourself, you wiggle like a litle worm now, can't even admit to what you've actually said, end of story.

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


Did not mean it as an insult, just stating obvious fact, you simply can't hide ignorance. Your comprehension of your own native language needs polishing yet here you are trying to teach the natives their own language,

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


There's no such word as Pollack in Polish language therefor derogatory and offensive, changing the spelling brings out obvious negative connotation and it only exist in Anglo speaking world, there's nothing wrong with using proper spelling of this word which is Polak meaning a Pole. Contrary to what you claim here the word for a Pole Polak is still very much in use and acceptable in both languages the meaning of Murzyn nor the spelling of it on the other hand ever changed, it's original meaning is intact. Just like the word Polak in Polish language describes a person of Polish heritage the word Murzyn describes a person of African heritage, end of story. No racism here whatsoever.

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

It's design that way to stress the word and make it sound like it's said in anger. Annoying to say the least just like we say Jankes or Mexicans who say Gringo.