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EchoTheCat   
23 Jan 2010
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Germans: They're normal people but.... there is one moment in their life, it could be the night between Monday and Tuesday or time between bread and tampons during the shopping and in that one exact moment they become Nazis and start to invade us ! Of course I'm joking but my granparents really think that way. In 50's when the road in my grandparent's village was repairing, the workers found two corps of German soldiers under the neighbor's driveway. The neighbor, over 90 years old man came out and said "Don't dig them up! They deserve it!" So Germans are completely untrustworthy.

Frenchs: cowards, cowards, cowards. The're are some jokes about them:
- What "Maginot" means?
- "Welcome!"

-How many Frenchs needs to defend Paris ?
- Nobody knows. Frenchs have never tried.

Czechs: funny language, great writers and movies

Slovakia: we like them more than Czechs and regard them as very nice people so similar to us

Ukraina: though the historical animosities and centuries of killing each other, we find them as very likeable. They have strong personalities and know how to drink :) Poles like to visit ukrainian cities like Lwow, because many Poles have lived there before the war (and we want them back! mwhaahahhaha ! ;) just kidding)

Hungary: We like them A LOT. Perhaps because we are no neighbors... Polak, Wegier dwa bratanki i do bitki i do szklanki!

Italy: all Italian mankinds live with their mothers but they don't admit it and try to be very macho. They can't be treat seriously, their goverment is like a circus with monkeys.

England: we used to see them as gentlemans but... when they started to puke to our fountains, run naked and drink vodka (which is not a good idea for Englishmans) we changed our minds. They are conceived as very, very, very ugly and with their very, very, very ugly women have very,very,very ugly childrens.

Scotland: there's is hardly to tell apart Scottish man from Scottish woman. They both have beards and wearing skirts. The only difference is that Scottish man have some strange feelings to his sheeps...

Ireland: they're all red, like the leperkuns. But we have sympathy to them because of similar history, occupations, ban on using language etc. By the way we don't understand why Irishmans don't speak Irish.

Sweden: they drink a lot and they drink everything with the exeption of asphalt. They all have blond hairs and blue eyes and sing Abba all day long. And they have constant depression.

Gypsies: their women steal little Polish children and sell to Angelina Jolie....

I wanna say everything I wrote are stereotypes. Scottish men doesn't f*ck sheeps, Gypsies don't steal the children. But Frenchs are still cowards :x ;)
EchoTheCat   
23 Jan 2010
Language / Z in usage with a verb... [20]

Robić - I' m still doing something.
Zrobić - It's already done.

Robione - Something is doing.
Zrobione - Something is done.

:)
EchoTheCat   
21 Jan 2010
Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

By and large: surnames with suffixes: -ewicz, -owicz are paternital male surnames ("otczestwa") derivated from Russian language, ex. Abramowicz: "Abram's son"

There is huge difference between "russian language" and "eastern borderlands" (Pod wpływem ruskim, kresowym (Ukraina, Białoruś i pogranicza ) przyrostki te przyjęły formę -owicz, -ewicz, czyli końcowe -cz funkcjonuje już od wieku XV. ). As the definition says those endings could come from not only Russia but also Ukraine or Belarus. In XVII century Tatars culture spreed all over Ukraine.

Btw I took my definition from pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polskie_nazwiska

Perhaps a rabble-rouser

Sounds promising ;)
EchoTheCat   
21 Jan 2010
Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

Your Polish is excellent, but your English is a work in progress. Look up pettifogger.

That's right, my english could be better :)
I sometimes use Google Translator which is strange. So what you suggest to use instead pettifogger ?
EchoTheCat   
21 Jan 2010
Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

We've always had way more landed gentry than land available in Poland.:)

We ? What we ? :)

I know a guy with surname ZABIJAK which means KILLER. This is amusing in itself but took on a competely different level of hilarity when the new police cars came out a couple years ago. They are silver/grey with a wide stripe across the doors and resemble the paint scheme of a lot of taxis. He called a taxi, giving his name, went out of the pub after 10 minutes, nicely tanked, and stumbled into the back seat of a police car parked outside asking the " taxi drivers" - Is this for Zabijak?

I've always liked names such as Butcher or Kat (executioner), they have really strong influence for the person who have one :)
Apropo police, there was a funny thing in Irish few months ago. Some of english newspaper consider the Irish policemans as the dumbest people because they wrote out a mandat on Prawo Jazdy (Driver Licence). They just thought that was the name of suspect ;))

But "zabijak" it's not exactly a killer. It's more like a pettifogger (pol.zabijaka), someone who like to drink, fight and sometimes to kill ;)

And it's also the name of two small towns in Poland.
EchoTheCat   
21 Jan 2010
Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

Well if you don't know something , ask Google ! :))

Surnames ending witch -wicz come from Tatars or Armenian. For exemple Abakanowicz, Achmetowicz, Assanowicz, Chazbijewicz (Tatars) and Agopsowicz, Awedykowicz, Isakowicz, Isakiewicz, Manugiewicz, Sarkisiewicz, Torosiewicz, Torosowicz (Armenia)

Surnames ending with -uk come from Ukraine

With -ski, -dzki, -cki endings come from Polish szlachta

With -ow, -ew ending are Russian names.

With -us or -is ending are Lithuania names.

There is a problem with Jewish surnames because until XVIII century, Jews in Poland had no surnames. They lived usually in small communities and named themselves for example as Abraham ibn Tobia (Abraham son of Tobia). In XVIII in Malopolska, which was on Austrian occupation, Jews was made to "named" themselves. And so you can have one of those surnames above and have Jewish ancestors. But generally many of Jewish surnames ending with -berg, -man, -wach, -baum

Surnames such as Uryga (latin:Auriga, eng. waggoner ), Kowal (smith) come from name of profession.

I was always told that (Son of ) ended with a czyk.

That's true, but who have surname like Kowalczyk, could be son of smith or... his adjunct. :)
EchoTheCat   
20 Jan 2010
Life / Poles are not racist [873]

Look at wildlife.

We have to cut off Discovery Channel from your cable tv....
EchoTheCat   
20 Jan 2010
Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]

Its the same size as a Ford Focus wagon or Mazda 3.

Of course I was joking... :)
But I promise you when I become a president I will enforce death penalty for that kind of behaviors ;)
I recommend you to visit this site
parkujeszjakdupek.pl
EchoTheCat   
20 Jan 2010
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

One more missing picture to last post .



EchoTheCat   
20 Jan 2010
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

On the last picture you can see how destroyed was some of buildings. But after the war they were rebuild exactly the same way.







EchoTheCat   
20 Jan 2010
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Well maybe I can show here something interesting. I'm from Poznan, city-fortress and it can be seen on every corner in this city. So I have some intrestong photo comparisions how the architecture was changing. It used to say that buildings in Posen was destroyed to far less extent (hmm I have strang feeling that there's something wrong with this sentence...) than in other cities. It's because prussian way of building which was considered as very solid. And I can say that's true because when you compare today photos and those from 30's there are almost no differences.