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Joined: 9 Mar 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 15 Mar 2012
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JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
History / Polish pirates [58]

Ignacy Blumer (O'Bloomer)

An interesting guy.

Searching for him, I found this, about some other Polish pirates - a big surprise! I suspect very few people, even in Poland, know about these guys. You learn something new every day: magistravel.pl/en/piraci.html
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

their economy is still so pathetic even though they no longer have 'foreign occupation' to blame for their weakness

Glass houses and stones, if ever there were any...
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

not Poles.

Exactly, they're Americans. However the ones who can't get on in life get obsessed with their ancestry because it's easier for them to deal with than reality.
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

after WW1

Not exactly yesterday.

This is the basis for Polonia. A Pole in America is still a Pole.

No. They are Americans. I suspect you'd have real problems adjusting to Poland if you ever lived here. You have lived here, I assume?
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

OK, you didn't answer the question about how many years you've lived in Poland, so we can safely assume you've never lived in Poland.

An easier question. How many times have you been to Poland?
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

I never lived in Poland but I visited once.

hahahahaha

A back seat driver if ever there was one.

How old are you, by the way?
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

I am 24.

Says a lot. Maybe even true.

I am Polish.

This however is not. You are an American who has visited Europe once. Not a Pole.
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Pretty basic. I knew this when I was 3 years old.

Which was probably about ten years ago. Many of us here have lived in Poland longer than that.

You are not a Pole, you are a transatlantic troll who would be slapped down the minute he arrived in Warsaw. If you can even get in without a tourist visa.
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Language / Polish word "Dom" and its similarities in different languages [46]

However, I don't see any relation of these to the root "dom" in "house" meaning.

There isn't. No connection at all. the do in domagać is a prefix.

Dom.....Domicile....Ive no classical education but sounds latin to me.

And this is right. Before Latin, from IndoEuropean roots. Not Turkic.
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Love / In 2009 nearly 4000 Poles married a foreigner [170]

All researches approve that interracial/mixed ethnicity children are better formed, fitter and more intelligent. Inter breeding creates the best results.

Very true. And with links to more than one culture, heritage and (ideally) language, which can only be good.
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Travel / Visiting Poland in May - what should I bring? [28]

Cholula hot sauce

Sounds great. Don't forget Mexican chocolate or other sweets, if you can get them. They will go down very well. Forget chewing gum - every shop sells seveal brands and flavours.
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Love / In 2009 nearly 4000 Poles married a foreigner [170]

taking a white woman from a white man (not necessarily his girl, might be a daughter or sister) his taking his most cherished possession.

Do you really think a woman is a "possession"?
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Language / Polish word "Dom" and its similarities in different languages [46]

I gave a simple possible derivation of "dam" from a Turkic word/verb.

Possible but not probable. It comes from Proto-IndoEuropean, far older than the Turkic languagest. It may have passed into the Turkic family through transference from Anatolian, Tocharian Armenian or Indo-Iranian.
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / Bath City offers 80% discount to Polish people [18]

It's a great idea - trying to include Polish newcomers in the local community.

Even better if Polonia Warszawa gives a discount to British people :-)
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

The real Ireland is one of crime, corruption, excessive immigration and depressions.

Don't forget Angela's Ashes!
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Language / Polish word "Dom" and its similarities in different languages [46]

You are a clever guy so explain why you are going up such a blind alley with this?

All evidence points to the contrary.

Who says Turks came to Anatolia later?

Less than relevant. The extinct Anatolian language was part of the IndoEuropean family, as was Tocharian, and given the nomadic proclivities of the Turks it would surprise nobody if their word for 'house' was a loanword from other languages.
JonnyM   
16 Mar 2011
Language / Polish word "Dom" and its similarities in different languages [46]

"damla" (rain droplet) and "damlamak" (to drip)

Doesn't relate to a home.

So, written sources have weaker evidence than mine

You have no evidence at all.

probably written by scholars like Crow.

You are two of a kind.