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Joined: 6 Apr 2007 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 14 Aug 2011
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Posts: Total: 928 / Live: 161 / Archived: 767 		From: Memphis, TN USA
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shopgirl   
9 Nov 2008
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

That's nice sentiment sweetie, and I agree with you, but I wanted to see what the Poles would say. (I would think they would rather claim a twice Nobel winner to Copernicus, but we shall see!)
shopgirl   
9 Nov 2008
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

I know Copernicus as "Copernicus" not as Kopernic or any other version, Polish or German.

I know Marie Curie as "Marie Curie" nor as Marie Skłodowska. If you were talking about Skłodowska, I would not recognize that name.
shopgirl   
4 Mar 2009
History / Polish-German alliance. [489]

when asked what was Hitlers biggest mistake he told me "not allying with Poland".

I would have said the biggest mistake was invading Russia......
shopgirl   
4 Mar 2009
History / Polish-German alliance. [489]

Russia was Hitlers obsesion, Poland was briefly considered as a viable ally, of course these have been brief musings of several staff oficers but mainly because of Polands opposition rather than Nazi Germany not wanting to.

Where did you read something that supports this idea? It seems so contrary to everything ever written about Hitler and Nazi Germany?
shopgirl   
5 Mar 2009
History / Polish-German alliance. [489]

I wanted to point out something here.....
Primarily it is Christians (past, present...whatever) who go out to take over a non-Christian group of people with the intent of converting them to Christianity. Christians are not exclusive to Germany in history.

In today's world, you might actually find a fair amount of heathens in Germany who are quite content not to be Christian.

Just thought you might find that interesting.
shopgirl   
23 Apr 2009
History / Polish weapons and militaria - got any? [153]

You are more likely to get an answer here:
feldgrau.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=44&sid=26cbb25136fd3171c24620161d2b739e
shopgirl   
17 May 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

If Navajo is so difficult and unknown, hot did they train American soldiers in it in time to use it in battle?

They didn't. They used Navajo men as soldiers who were the code talkers.

Navajo was an attractive choice for code use because few people outside the Navajo themselves had ever learned to speak the language. Virtually no books in Navajo had ever been published. Outside of the language itself, the Navajo spoken code was not very complex by cryptographic standards and would likely have been broken if a native speaker and trained cryptographers worked together effectively.

shopgirl   
19 May 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Shetland was historically a Norse society. The language known as Norn was spoken there, in Orkney and the very far north of Scotland.

Donkey, why do you know so much about languages? Do you have a degree in linguistics or something. I have seen you comment on language in threads with Crow about the movements of ancient Slavic tribes, and in the DNA thread involving language, and so now I am very curious. Is this a hobby or more than that? :)
shopgirl   
27 May 2009
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Hehe! And I thought Seanie was trying to cut down!

Funny as hell, Szar! :)
shopgirl   
8 Jun 2009
Love / Are Polish Women cold and aloof? [249]

Americans are very quick to understand what is close to them and can bring them money.

I'm not obessed with money either.
I have a roof over my head, clothes and food. That's enough.
shopgirl   
3 Jan 2010
Food / Turkey for New Year's dinner in Poland? [29]

Noooooo we Brits have our birds on Christmas day , its the USA that have the thanksgiving dinner...

Actually some of us Yanks will have Turkey for both and be quite happy about it!
You can have the ham.....or whatever. :)
shopgirl   
3 Jan 2010
History / Polish-German alliance. [489]

But BB, Germany's population growth is said to be declining.
BB, you need to have some babies, fast! :)
shopgirl   
3 Jan 2010
History / Polish-German alliance. [489]

As I see a declining population as a good thing if we want to secure our survival long term (there IS a limit about how many people this Earth can bear you know) I will do my duty and obstain from baby making....I think...

No no no!
We need more blonde haired, blue eyed Deutschies! Stat! get on with it already! :p
shopgirl   
3 Jan 2010
History / Polish-German alliance. [489]

Or. we may just have to resort to cloning the Krauties.
I'll take one, please!
shopgirl   
28 Mar 2010
Life / WHEN DO THE CLOCKS GO FORWARD IN POLAND? [19]

This winter I bought myself a sophisticated alarm clock that could accommodate two different alarm settings. It also featured an automatic "time change" so that it would not be necessary to change the time for Daylight Savings each season. But I live in a place that doesn't have Daylight Savings (which I never understood anyway) so I have to remember now to undo the automatic setting. *rolls eyes*
shopgirl   
4 Apr 2010
History / Actually, there never was any Polish-German hatred [149]

And actually, if you ask the old people, they say that although today people talk about SS all the time, the majority of Germans in Poland were Wehrmacht, and they were good people, mostly.

I think that when we look back at history in general, we discuss conflicts in terms of the peoples involved rather that the root causes of the conflicts. I was in a class yesterday where we were told that 95% of a problem or issue is over the "what" not the "who" in a situation (this came from a Harvard study of conflict).

I still insist (after 3 years of reading this forum) that hatred is a learned response.
If two peoples are constantly at odds over the "what" eventually it develops into an emotional response to the "who".

Nobody is born hating anybody.
shopgirl   
4 Apr 2010
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [395]

Russia will never be democratic as long as Putin draws breath.
And who knows, maybe he will be able to control Medevev from beyond the grave.
Rasputin would be so proud.
shopgirl   
4 Apr 2010
History / Actually, there never was any Polish-German hatred [149]

TheOther
Instead of absorbing the attitudes taught in school, students might better served to be taught how to think independently, and without the baggage smeared across the pages of the history textbooks, ja?