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Posts by Natasa  

Joined: 6 Jun 2010 / Female ♀
Last Post: 29 Mar 2014
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From: Beograd, Serbia
Speaks Polish?: no
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Natasa   
11 Jun 2010
History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]

You really believe that sh*it? That Bismarck's last words had been Serbia of all things??? ROFLMAO

Bismarck was an intro for the biggest failure in german history resulting in millions of dead.
You lost parts of your country . Your country was flattened.
You were occupied by russian and american troops (others irrelevant).
And when I visited last time Germany there where still hundreds of thousands of foreign soldiers (?!). I saw towns that belong only on the map to Germany.

Consequence of ideas like his.
I would think twice if I were you.

Little bit of psychology now...I can see that you like to give people nicknames with pejorative meaning.
The usual explanation for that is that some feeling of inferiority is bothering you, so you have to humiliate another person to feel good about yourself. (just theory, not me;))
Natasa   
11 Jun 2010
History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]

Probably he saw a nightmare.

Freud would say....every dream even the one that feels like a nightmare is fullfillment of a wish, something you can not achieve in real life. My guess would be that he felt guilt, and wanted on his deathbed to undo injustice to serbs.

If it was his last dream, I assume it was really important for him.
Natasa   
10 Jun 2010
History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]

You Balkanists...Remember old Bismarck, he was not so stupid.

That's just primitive.
Educated man from civilized western hemisphere quoting Bismarck about Balkans, that is so ruining my idealized picture of society you were raised in. Oh no, wait, that is not possible..:))

Where to look now?Where?
Who will guide us?
This is funny.
Natasa   
9 Jun 2010
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

I would say get used to it, it makes no sense to resist it; you'll fight a losing battle.

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hehe.....Friendly advise, but unfriendly message in essance.

It's not an external attempt of taking over a country's culture, just the normal flow of things.

That others also don't percieve it as a normal flow, and don't see it as a lost battle, is visible by attempts (with some success) in WESTERN european countries fighting to preserve their own language and identity via legislation that's taking care of presence of english language in media.

France, Germany, Spain.....
Right?
Natasa   
9 Jun 2010
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

Look. Ottomans have controlled balkans and arab lands for more than 500 years, but, Balkan people (except Turks immigrated to Balkans) and Arabs don't speak Turkish at all.

That's a mistake.
South slavic languages are FULL of turkish words, especially parts of south and central Serbia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and of course Bosnia and Herzegovina were it's flowerishing again ( thanks to islamization of that part of ex YU).

Turkish words we use everyday, not knowing mostly that they were implanted here during turkish invasion and occupation of southern Europe.
So, turkish words are still here, disappearing slowely but definetly from serbian,and now we
have a different sovereign and new influence.

I think we said the same thing.
Natasa   
8 Jun 2010
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

I live in Belgrade, and my friends are more and more using english words in everyday communication. I honestly don't understand this phenomenon when we have in our language words that are almost completely equivalent.

Unfortunately, we all are witnesses of language colonisation, general anglization? Visible in culture (music, movies, fortunately literature is still not giving up) noticeable everywhere, especially in those countries that don't have a critical standpoint towards the powerful ones.

It's not just a simple evolutionary process, it is a consequence of subordinated positions other non english nations have.That explains why for example, turkish language is not present in german, as much as english, although one million turks live there. Their social -economical status is not allowing them to fertilize german with more turcisms (not counting few words for fast food). Similar situation is visible in french that's not influenced by arabic, english untouched by ex colonies languages, etc.

I see this only in terms of domination-subordination.
Also, that is I guess, the explanation why i do not speak a single word chinese evn though 20.000 are living within a few km distance. English I can see on every corner.

So, with apologies for the length of this post, I will finish with this question:
Why native english speakers don't use polish, german, russian or swedish words ?