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Joined: 23 Apr 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 14 Aug 2014
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AdamKadmon   
6 May 2010
Life / Psychological predicament of del pobre polaco [7]

Noticing that many Poles abroad felt pressed to boost their spirits by speaking of fame and glory of our ancestors Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish writer and expatriate in Argentina, posed the following questions:

What does average Mr. Kowalski have in common with Chopin?

Does Chopin’s composition of the ballads raise Mr Kowalski’s specific weight by even one iota?

Can the Siege of Vienna augment Mr Kowalski by even an ounce of glory?

If our greatness or our past impress us, isn't it the proof that it has not yet entered our bloodstream?

Copernicus, Curie, Chopin are hardly ever, if at all, the subject of conversation among Poles in Poland. So many posts here on the PF are referring to great Poles that I am wondering why Poles confronted with other nations speak so often not about their own personal achievements but about greatness of others, which happen to be our compatriots? Do people of other nationalities feel the same urgent need to boost their spirits in a similar way when confronted with people from other countries?
AdamKadmon   
6 May 2010
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [105]

I am not going to give them even a penny

Though not yet a member of the euro zone, Poland has voiced readiness to participate in the effort at a level comensurate to its present capabilities.

Not even a penny. Prawdziwy Kacap z ciebie.
AdamKadmon   
6 May 2010
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [105]

There is only one country in EU who is supporting such parasites like Poland, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania etc., and it is Germany.

Do you believe Pravda? Tusk supports Greece at EU Summit

...Poland will be ready to help as well. Warsaw supports the idea of issuing euro bonds as a form of assistance to Greece as long as they are common for the whole block and not only the euro zone....
AdamKadmon   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

He was Jewish .Can you live with that

Once clever child going by the name of Miguel
Revealed a lesser known secret to kill me once well
Can you believe it that the famous guy, who is known as an Einstein
Was, oh no… you will be shocked, you Nazi scum, a Jew of the flock
Oh!! Can you live with that pal? He ask me at last
The question passed by, everyone's in shock
I’m Adam Kadmon - chip of the same block
AdamKadmon   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

Let's just call this a wild guess of mine

Let's just call this a wild guess of mine!
No, not yet, I’m that guy you call an Einstein!!
AdamKadmon   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

Both France and the Low Countries were extremely anti-semitic, far more so than any eastern country bar Ukraine

Judging people, even the whole nations. Who the hell do you think you are?
God the Father or the Holy Trinity? Don't be so restless, the Last Judgment is coming soon.
AdamKadmon   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

Ukrainians published a list of soviet officers responsible for the great starvation in Ukraine 80% of them are jewish

Pointing their finger at officers, calling them by names. How did they get to that precision? They can't even give the number of people died of starvation:

The results based on scientific methods obtained prior to the opening of former Soviet archives also varied widely but the range was narrower: for example, 2.5 million (Volodymyr Kubiyovych), 4.8 million (Vasyl Hryshko) and 5 million (Robert Conquest).

One modern calculation that uses demographic data including that available from recently opened Soviet archives narrows the losses to about 3.2 million or, allowing for the lack of precise data, 3 million to 3.5 million.

Source: Wikipedia
AdamKadmon   
4 May 2010
Language / Having trouble pronouncing Polish words? [35]

Ivona will help. Write some words ending in -uj. Don't put letters uj into the box, Ivona reads letters as if spelled, one by one.
AdamKadmon   
3 May 2010
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [105]

ConstantineK

During the happy day's of cooperation between Hitler and Stalin, after signing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and before invading the Soviet Union by Wehrmacht, Mussolini perceived that the Soviet system under Stalin had become a kind of Slav fascism or crypto-fascism. And a leading Italian Fascist theoretician, Ugo Spirito, speculated on the likely synthesis of the two systems. Still, there is much to repent, to forgive, and to forget, but for you, above all, to remember!
AdamKadmon   
2 May 2010
Language / "Idę do kolegi." - Polish prepositions/and translation [17]

I am translating senses not words. The point is that while translating, you must not be enslaved to the extent of rendering word for word. And if anyone does so, this comes from his impoverishment and deficiency of wit.
AdamKadmon   
2 May 2010
Language / "Idę do kolegi." - Polish prepositions/and translation [17]

Idę do kolegi

Translation: I'm going to see one of my friends/colleagues.

Word for word translation: I go to colleague.

Iść - to go infinitive.
Idę - I am going, literally, I go - the first person singular.

Iść do [kogo? czego?], these are questions of genitive case, so the noun which follows should be in the genitive case. We say that the verb iść do requires genitive or in other words governs the genitive case.

kolega - nominative case, by the way this is masculine noun, ten kolega, tho' the ending of it is typical for the feminine.

kolegi - genitive case of kolega

So we've got:

Idę do kolegi.

QED
AdamKadmon   
2 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

hague1cmaeron

If you mean the pre-war Poland then read this, a good discription of that time:

Only one influential Polish party, the National Democrats and their successors, were openly hostile to ‘the native foreigners in our midst’; and they were no more rabid in their views on Jewry than on Germans, Ukrainians, socialists, or gypsies. If we are to believe a leader of the Jewish Bund in pre-war Warsaw, even the virulence of the National Democrats had its limits:

… the nationalists… had great psychological and other difficulties in accepting the ideas of Fascism and Nazism…

They were not revolutionaries like the Nazis in Germany or the Fascists in Italy: they were old-fashioned reactionaries. They were active in organising economic boycotts, but they would not encourage physical pogroms. They were for a numerus clauses at the universities, but were not for closing them completely to non-Catholic, Polish citizens… They were in favour of establishing two class of citizens with different political rights, but were not for taking these rights away completely from any group.
AdamKadmon   
2 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

the antisemitic laws in Poland

What laws do you mean?
AdamKadmon   
1 May 2010
Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

There is a name of a tree which is purely polish, i.e. spruce, sonding 100% Polish and meaning literally coming form Prussia.

This is what about the word origin says etymology:

Spruce: lit. "from Prussia," from Spruce, Sprws (late 14c.). Spruce seems to have been a generic term for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, board, leather, and the tree was believed to have come from Prussia.

Also in Norman Davies's book God's playground: a history of Poland
The name of the spruce tree is supposed to derive from the Polish words z Prus 'from Prussia'
AdamKadmon   
30 Apr 2010
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

The Voytek's story:

During the most crucial phase of the battle, when pockets of men were cut off on the mountainside desperately in need of supplies, Voytek, who all this time had been watching his comrades frantically loading heavy boxes of ammunition, came over to the trucks, stood on his hind legs in front of the supervising officer and stretched out his paws toward him. It was as if he was saying: I can do this. Let me help you . The officer handed the animal the heavy box and watched in wonder as Voytek loaded it effortlessly onto the truck.

iranian.com/History/2005/August/Bear/index.html
AdamKadmon   
30 Apr 2010
Language / Having a really hard time with Polish cases [59]

Try A Grammar Of Contemporary Polish by Oscar E. Swan, page 327 - Uses of the Cases

KINDS OF CASE USES

There are too many possible noun-functions in sentences, and too few
Polish cases, for each noun-function to be associated with a specific case.
Instead, the same case may be used to express different functions, and dif-
ferent functions may be expressed not only by case-endings alone but also
with prepositions plus cases. By and large, prepositions serve to make general
case meanings more specific. As a rough characterization, one may dis-
tinguish among (a) "bare" or basic syntactic uses of cases; (b) governed uses
of cases, including especially uses after prepositions and verbs; (c) idiomatic
uses of cases, often figurative extensions of the basic case-use, used to express
adverbial ideas. For example, the Genitive case is used BASICALLY to express
noun-to-noun relationships, as in dom ojca house of father, father's house.
Additionally, the Genitive is GOVERNED (required) after certain prepositions
and verbs, as in bez wody without water-G, or s∏ucham muzyki I'm listening to
music-G. Finally, the Genitive occurs IDIOMATICALLY, as in the expressions of
dates; see pierwszego maja on the first of May.

You can find more detail in the book.
AdamKadmon   
23 Apr 2010
News / Michał Kamiński - referred to not by name on the UK Leaders Debate but ... [47]

Mr Zeichner sad:

You don't go and have an alliance with Angela Merkel, you go and find some people in the Polish Law and Order Freedom Party - some people who think that the best thing to do on a Sunday morning is to go out and celebrate the achievements of the Waffen SS in the last war

Polish Law and Order

Latvian For Fatherland and Freedom - national conservative political party in Latvia

So he made one party out of two, just a mental shortcut of a kind, play for the ignorant public, that's quite normal for a politician. Both of the mentioned parties are in alliance with the British Conservatives, at least here he's right.
AdamKadmon   
23 Apr 2010
News / Michał Kamiński - referred to not by name on the UK Leaders Debate but ... [47]

Check what the Independent wrote on the subject:

I do not claim that he said: 'the Conservatives are now allied with eastern European parties'
But who are they allied with then?

As to the actual words he said:
How on Earth does it help anyone... David Cameron, to join together in the European Union with a bunch of nutters, anti-Semites , people who deny climate change exists, homophobes
AdamKadmon   
23 Apr 2010
News / Michał Kamiński - referred to not by name on the UK Leaders Debate but ... [47]

Yesterday just after the pre-election debate I started the thread:

Is Prawo i Sprawiedliwość a bunch of nutters?

In which I wrote:

The Conservatives are now allied with eastern European parties. Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, described the Conservatives’ allies, eastern European parties as:

a bunch of nutters, anti-Semites , people who deny climate change exists, homophobes