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Daisy   
24 Jan 2011
History / Poland obliged to make war reparations to Austria and Germany after WWI. Why? [119]

Adam Zamoyski is a British historian not Polish

And which part of Britain does the name Zamoyski come from, it's definitely not English and it doesn't sound very Welsh or Scots either. he may have been born in Britain and have a British passport, but I doubt he's neutral on the subject
Daisy   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

How did people live before credit cards???? ;)

I pay my credit card off in full every month, the reason I have one is, it allows me to shop on the net, where I save money and, the silly buggers give me money back for every £ I spend, which is knocked off my bill in January, quite nice after Christmas, this year I had just under £17 knocked off my bill.

So the question is, how would the banks survive if everyone was like me?
my only debt is my mortgage
Daisy   
18 Dec 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

I would had never thought that still possible understandable in the 20th century..

the dialect comes from that, not identical, although it is funny how many words from OE I understand, the only dialect words I use are

Chipole for spring onion
chiggiwig for wood louse
quiddle for squid

I use waps jokingly for wasp and everyone still uses gert for large. My grandmother used loads, smeech for smoke, nisch for someone who is week and delicate
Daisy   
18 Dec 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

Folks here on this side of the Great Pond perhaps are ignorant of the fact that you Southern English grew up hearing

You are a tad confused, Prince Albert has nothing to do with Oxford English, blame William the B@stard and his Norman nobility, they are the ones who introduced the upper class accent, the accent you speak of is the Anglo Saxon working class/peasant accent
Daisy   
18 Dec 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

Polonius3
My great grandparents in rural Dorset still spoke Wessex dialect as a first language, it was still spoken in rural areas of Dorset and Somerset well into the 20th century, I remember my great grandparents speaking it. Thomas Hardy referred to it in a poem about WWI

I walked in loamy Wessex lanes, afar
From rail-track and from highway, and I heard
In field and farmstead many an ancient word
Of local lineage like 'Thu bist,' 'Er war,'
'Ich woll,' 'Er sholl,' and by-talk similar,
Nigh as they speak who in this month's moon gird
At England's very loins, thereunto spurred
By gangs whose glory threats and slaughters are.

Then seemed a Heart crying: 'Whosoever they be
At root and bottom of this, who flung this flame
Between kin folk kin tongued even as are we,
Sinister, ugly, lurid, be their fame;
May their familiars grow to shun their name,
And their brood perish everlastingly.'

Daisy   
18 Dec 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

My bow to english being the language of this board! ;)

Globalisation is proper English, Globalization is American, so it was more of a kick than a bow
Daisy   
14 Aug 2010
UK, Ireland / Ive been in the UK for 6 days to relocate and im going back to Poland. [281]

Pinching Pete

A young lad in my town was blown up in Afghanistan, lost both legs and one arm, he was in this same hospital in Birmingham, as the previous government got rid of every single military hospital. When he was well enough to go outside, his mother took him for a walk in his wheelchair, when they were attacked and abused by a mob of Asian youths.

Off topic content removed

I come from a military family, I know many current and ex servicemen, thye are sick of what is happening in this country, I can see more civil unrest coming to this country, looks like Enoch Powell was right after all when he gave his rivers of blood speech
Daisy   
20 Jul 2009
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

And who did all this "germanizing" then in the first place if there weren't any Germans to begin with? :)

I was wondering that. If Germans aren't Germans, who Germanized them? If they were Germans, then they must have been Slavs, so why are Slavs Germanizing themselves? Or if it was someone else and they are Germans and not germanised slavs, they can't be Germans, because if they were they would be Slavs not Germans, if so what are they now if they are not Germans anymore and who deGermanised them?

*I'm off to take a long lie down*
Daisy   
21 May 2009
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Wow.. I've just noticed that I'd been mentioned in the omnibus. :)

it's downhill from there
Daisy   
19 May 2009
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

The language known as Norn was spoken there

The Lords prayer in Norn

Favor i ir i chimrie, Helleur ir i nam thite,
gilla cosdum thite cumma, veya thine mota vara gort
o yurn sinna gort i chimrie,
ga vus da on da dalight brow vora
Firgive vus sinna vora sin vee Firgive sindara mutha vus,
lyv vus ye i tumtation, min delivera vus fro olt ilt, Amen.

The Lords prayer in Old English, or Englisc

Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum,
Si þin nama gehalgod.
to becume þin rice, gewurþe ðin willa,
on eorðan swa swa on heofonum.
urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg,
and forgyf us ure gyltas,

Daisy   
25 Apr 2009
Life / POLISH TEENAGERS TURN TO PROSTITUTION... [77]

as they see this as essential to earn respect from their friends.......

becoming a prostitute to earn respect is something of an oxymoron imo, a pity they don't have any self respect :(
Daisy   
14 Apr 2009
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Bratwurst's helmet is always hot with the girls...or so I've heard....

been hearing the voices again Betty?
Daisy   
2 Jan 2009
Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

.I still believe that the most dangerous animal is the one that walks upright on two legs....

I agree with you on that one, Homo Sapien is the most dangerous and vicious creature ever to walk this Earth
Daisy   
8 Dec 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

as long I have my helmet

you'll need more than your helmet
Daisy   
8 Dec 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Another excellent round up of the week

The Cob at Lyme Regis

I've stood there on a stormy day.....oh sorry this isn't the sea thread.

Good luck with the shopping Szar, I hate shopping

we Germans suck at ice hockey

ice hockey it is then
Daisy   
7 Dec 2008
News / Dalai Lama says: "POLAND HAS RETAINED ITS SPIRIT" [77]

The problem is that so much blood will be spilled along the way, this fact will pale into relative insignificance.

So much for Shock and Awe and will be over in a few weeks
Daisy   
7 Dec 2008
News / Dalai Lama says: "POLAND HAS RETAINED ITS SPIRIT" [77]

Iraq seems to be bearing this out

Agreed, Hussein was a bastard, no denying it, but the streets of Iraq were a lot safer for the average person then, than they are now.
Daisy   
3 Dec 2008
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

I used to know a man named Michael Hunt, he was known as Mike, honestly that's true, he had a real hang up about it