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Joined: 10 Jan 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 30 Aug 2019
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skysoulmate   
25 Jul 2011
News / Wroclaw man helping police after recent events in Norway [48]

Posted by Torq:

It will once again confirm one of the main leftist dogmas, that Poland is The Source of All Evil in the World.

Updating the news and denying the Polish connection will be laughed at - it's too late.

Torq, with all due respect I beg to differ. PF isn't exactly a major news outlet that people look up when thinking of the latest and most up to date news. Besides, google, yahoo, etc. search functions continuously update themselves so if the subject line is changed there won't be any confusion whatsoever. I bet you there will be people interviewed and maybe even arrested in the UK, US, Czech republic (that's where he tried to buy a gun but failed), and many other countries.
skysoulmate   
25 Jul 2011
News / Wroclaw man helping police after recent events in Norway [48]

But nice to see on the front page that a Pole knowingly helped a mass murderer, even if that's BS.

Well, Szwed didn't do anything wrong, he posted a source without any personal views attached to it so we could judge ourselves.. I wish the article stated "for allegedly helping the terrorist..." but that's not Szwed's fault.

Maybe the allegedly can be added to the subject line?
skysoulmate   
24 Jul 2011
Feedback / Remove screen-names altogether. The Next Step In Improving PF! Personal insults would be impossible [35]

Posted by Ironside even though Comrade Admin forbids us to mention the poster's name

In fact the only poster on PF should be Adm, that guy is so wise, I can see that interesting conversation and discussion between his multiply personalties.

Amen, the guy is selfish and stubborn, as simple as that. Several people have stopped posting altogether, I'm fuming everytime I have to post an anonymous quote and for the first time I'm getting tired of PF, it just isn't fun anymore, this whole communist mentality of "you shall do this and you shall like it" attitude. What happened to asking members for inputs?? Where's the common sense? On what other forum on earth do people talk to anonymous text bubbles????!!!!
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American mutilation of the Polish language [75]

[pip said this:]

In Iceland it is very important to maintain the language as much as possible. Computer is a new word, however, in Icelandic they have literally translated it to be "box with numbers". Poles can do the same but they choose not to.

True but they also come up with cute names for volcanoes, i.e. Eyjafjallajökull. :-))

I struggle pronouncing it and I speak another Scandinavian language fluently. Island is a tiny nation and they're protecting their language but I don't think we need to.
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2011
Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]

(boletus):But "Busha" is atrocious - but only spelling wise. I

You're right, I got too lazy and didn't feel like reading the entire thread. I don't care about the spelling although I agree with you that Busha looks atrocious. To me, it's the strong "sh" sound pronunciation that makes it so appalling. A grandmother is something I cherish, it's a sweet, good feeling to say babcia, babusia, babunia, even busia (although I've never heard it prior to PF). To hear busha sounds very harsh to me, sounds foreign and not "homey-like" at all. That's me though, YMMV.

PS:
I re-typed your name to remember who I was quoting further down the road. I hate the new "anonymous quote" feature. :-((
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American mutilation of the Polish language [75]

Most anglophones can't properly pronounce "si" sound.

True but this lady is my friend's wife and she speaks Polish pretty well, it sounds like eastern Polish to me but I understand pretty much everything she says (whenever she wants to practice her Polish). Her family came to the US from what would be Ukraine today but she says her entire family was Polish.
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American mutilation of the Polish language [75]

Babusia, although I've never heard such diminiutive, is probably the real origin of the word busia.

Interesting, my mom called her grandmother babusia, silesian background. Note that busia and busha are different words, I've heard a Chicagoan lady use the busha word, it had a strong sh (or sz) sound to it as in the russian devushka (girl).

Very, very sorry for your family's horrible loss.

It's life and my family has moved on (his wife never did, she died as a single "widow" although she never called herself a widow, she believed he'd come back because his last letter said he'd be back soon). I'll cherish that letter, my mom already told me that one day it'll be mine. For one, I'm in the military (like he was) and I like history; my sister - not so much.
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American mutilation of the Polish language [75]

And, I see your point, too. Russia dominated Poland for far too long. One reason why one set of my grandparents had Russian citizenship, instead of Polish.

A relative of ours died in Katyn, my mother still has the last letter he wrote to his then wife. Yeah, the less Russian influence the better. I know languages soak in words from other languages but Busha sounds purely Russian to me.
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American mutilation of the Polish language [75]

I also wanted to clarify that although I never heard of Busia or Busha, I think it is cute.

I see your point but I don't like it. It's like leftover from Russian filth...
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American mutilation of the Polish language [75]

That's a very logical explanation and I was thinking the same. A bastardized Russian/Ukrainian word en vogue with the American Poles. Go figure... ;)
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American mutilation of the Polish language [75]

hahaha......word choice is everything. Would have been a cute thread if titled "Funny Polish-American Adaptations of the Polish language."

Inserting the word mutilation into the thread title shows the intent to discredit a whole group. As said by others, languages always change. Otherwise, a lot of folks in Europe would be speaking Latin. Oh those disrespectful French, Italian, Germans and Spaniards! :-P

Amen, those are funny words and to talk of mutilation is just silliness. It also applies to every language out there. Plenty of "swenglish" words in Swedish, no harm done.

In Amero-Polish "busha" must be by far the weirdest word. The Russian word Babushka became Babusha -> Busha. It's more Russian than Polish yet half the Amero-Poles claim it's a Polish word? What happened to Babcia??
skysoulmate   
21 Jul 2011
Feedback / PolishForums Motto? :) [149]

That would exclude a huge portion of our membership. ;)
skysoulmate   
21 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Study in America. Is Polish financial aid/loans available for Polish students in the US? [10]

I thought it was strange she was so specific about studying in Vegas. I'm guessing someone she's yearning for already lives there. :))

Either way, her best route might actually be to apply for a scholarship in a German university, they'd take care of the F-1 visa, all the legalities, etc., and she'd end up with a degree good for Europe and the US.
skysoulmate   
21 Jul 2011
Work / 20 years old moving to Poland from Canada, is it hard for me to get a job in Poland? [20]

Get the degree, then think about moving - you can use the time to learn how to write in Polish too, which will help you immensely.

There are several threads here where you could practice your written Polish. You say you can't write in Polish but I bet you know more than you think. You do realize English and Polish use the same alphabet, right? It's not Chinese or Japanese with a different alphabet altogether.

You can write in Pinglish on those threads and they'll correct you fast enough, trust me on that one... ;)

Rozoomiesh mnee?
skysoulmate   
21 Jul 2011
Feedback / PolishForums Motto? :) [149]

...Life is not measured by the number of posts we make but by the admins who take our banned status away...
:-))

...and the original of course:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away...
skysoulmate   
21 Jul 2011
Feedback / PolishForums Motto? :) [149]

The more I think about the current motto the less I like it. Who're you calling ugly convex?? ;)
skysoulmate   
20 Jul 2011
Feedback / PolishForums Motto? :) [149]

Polish Forums -"where everyone knows your name"

...where "real" Poles, "plastic" Poles and wannabe Poles like to intermingle...

youtu.be/-Fulz4ytZ54
skysoulmate   
20 Jul 2011
Feedback / Why are there so many on here, who do not like Poland [150]

If you don't like Poland, and you live there, move, and if you just don't like Poland, because Poland and her people are better than you, just keep it to yourself.

Well, you live in Indiana? ...and you like Poland (and so do I), does this mean you MUST move??
skysoulmate   
20 Jul 2011
Feedback / PolishForums Motto? :) [149]

POLAND: The GOOD and The BAD

Didn't we have this discussion a while back? Like more than a year ago? I thought you changed it then to the good, the bad and the ugly??
skysoulmate   
19 Jul 2011
Law / Which currency is better for Poland and the Eurozone? Euro or Zloty? [36]

In a nutshell your money is safe. IF you decide to do precious metal investing I recommend investing in funds that track those metals rather than to buy actual gold, silver, etc. Renting safety deposit boxes adds up too you know... :)

Just FYI, gold, silver, etc. trade is MUCH riskier than any stock trades, talk to a specialist before you go down that road.
skysoulmate   
19 Jul 2011
Feedback / Why are there so many on here, who do not like Poland [150]

Why are there so many on here, who do not like Poland, and of the many, many of those have never even been to Poland. If you don't have anything good to say, of Poland, and her people, don't say anything. Many here should be in a German, or Russian, or other group, since this is where there love is.

Interesting how we all seem to have such different perspectives on PF, are we really reading the same forum?? Some will say it's anti-Polish, others will say it's anti-American or anti-British, or even anti-"Polonian" or anti-"Plastic-Pole"or whatever word du-jour happens to be.

I guess we all see things the way we perceive the world? Personally I think there's a little bit of anti-everything here; in my view most "attacks" on PF are aimed at women, especially Polish women, some comments are funny but often they're just retarded. I guaran-damn-tee you there would be a lot of bloody noses if people used those type of comments while facing real people rather than computer screens. Either way, the next target is the US, not so much Americans per se but US as a nation, the political system, the culture., or the perceived lack thereof, etc., etc... The Jewish threads tend to perk up pretty often too because of the occasional heated rhetoric, and I'm just as guilty. Those are my perceptions and obviously your mileage may vary.

However, I don't sense a dislike or distaste for Poland on PF? People will often make snide and sometimes pretty ruthless comments when their "home" is being attacked. So if I hear some vile comments being made about the US I might get pretty aggressive in defending it which might be perceived as me putting down other countries, including Poland. However, overall I really don't sense any animosity toward Poland here.

Now, let me tell you about the State of Indiana, what a rat-hole that is... ;)

We must remember that this is just an online message board, that's it; a bunch of thoughts, ideas, dreams, (some wet-dreams :), misconceptions and prejudices all combined into an electronic Polish Jambalaya.

What was it Bob Marley said?
"love the life you live.
live the life you love."