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.

Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

I forgot the pictures ... :)

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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.

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One more missing picture to last post .

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Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

Did you try Orkisz Vodka ?

Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]

When a parking car has that white parking line berween the weels we used to say that he's wearing strings. I've heard that in Poznan :))

Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]

Nauczyciel I'm sorry but you have to buy a smaller car.

Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]


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

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


We have to cut off Discovery Channel from your cable tv....

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.


That's true, but who have surname like Kowalczyk, could be son of smith or... his adjunct. :)

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


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.

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


That's right, my english could be better :)
I sometimes use Google Translator which is strange. So what you suggest to use instead pettifogger ?

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


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


Sounds promising ;)

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.

:)

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 ;)

Language / Usage: Freedom in Polish and in English [30]


That's is not true. Wolnomysliciel have only one meaning. Do you use "wolnomysliciel" to tell abouth somebody that they think slow ???


wolny = free
powolny/powoli =slow

Language / Z in usage with a verb... [20]


Wow. I feel shame. I'm Polish and I was corrected by Swedishman :)))
I thought that was the simpliest way to show the difference. And yes, it should be "zrobione" instead "zrobic". :)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


We can try, and see this disaster ;))

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

I didn't do it, because I think everything was said here. And all this reapiting about how you like to exterminate us and destroying our cities and all this talking about "mother Russia" and "slavic brotherhood" etc. etc, you know I would rubbed my keyboard typing this ********* ;)

My grandmother used to say that during the war there's was white Russians and yellow Russians (with oblique eyes). And those yellow ones were real animals. They destroyed everything with no reason. She ones said about one Russsian, who stoled alarm clock and had it in his bag. And when than clock started to ring, he took the gun and started to shot to the bag. He just didn't know what was the alarm clock....

I love to read Dostojewski and I know that's not true but for my grandma all Russians will always be incredible stupid.

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

No, the island is green, you are red ! I can bet You are red too ! ;)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


There's much more fun when you talking about somebody from your neighborhood. In Europe we're all in neighborhood. :)
There're two groups of Americans. Those who live in big cities are ok. Rest of you are Red Necks. They like to hunt bears, Negros and foreing turists. Some of them like to have sex with their own sisters and have a few deformed children together (especially in Iowa). Most of them are Baptist or Mormons with houndreds of wifes.

In generally Unated States as a great educational desert with some few well-read islands like New York or ...ee...or.. you know that would be all. You are completely not interested in another countries when there's no oil pools.

But we regard you as very breave people though during the second war you defended wrong side of Europe....
We don't understand your sense of heroism. Your country (because of neighborhood of harmless Canadian and always drunk by tequila Mexicans) have never been invade. You always had to fight because of

a) somebody blew up your ship
b) somebody blew up your aircraft carrier
c) you went on war because stupidity of your goverment (Vietnam)
d) oil
But after all we love you because of your self confidence which we don't have :)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


Yes, she said that every ones she looked on them, she knew that there was no brain behind their eyes.

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

I shown this photo to my grandma and she said she knows him from somewhere ;)

Genealogy / Any information on the Kitzmann family from Poland [11]

These are marriages concluded between 1820 and 1889 for the surname Kitzmann from bindweed.man.poznan.pl/posen/. You have to type the surname of bryde (panna mloda) or groom (pan mlody).

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


1. Ireland
2. Scotland
3. Sweden
4. Russia

What it the award ?

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


Oh no... Its, Polish :D
Why we are blond ? The mustache will be more recognizeable :)

I'm thinking about new threat about stereotypes about Poles. The Third World War is closer than you think ;)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Scotch whisky :P

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

What could it be? Vodka of course. After all it's polish invention :x :P ;)