Life / Is Lady Gaga popular in Poland? [47]

I only like the new wave of pop stars. Katy Perry is popular despite having no musical talent whatsoever (I once saw her live concert on TV - I think even I can sing better LOL), Gaga got popular despite being just fugly etc. It's completely different from the plastic dolls of yesteryear carefully chosen and promoted by musical corporations.

Language / Need advice on how to improve Polish language skills [134]

Again back to you old wrong memories? You're wrong, you can make various mistakes and still be understood, you just have so little experience with Polish that you don't know when the message is and when it's not understandable anymore. Quit your whining, study more.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

So when did Ukrainians have their own independent state?
Why didn't Ukrainians fight against USSR by themselves when Polish allies failed? The Soviet army was badly organized, malnourished, not well armed etc. The odds weren't impossible.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

By the time the war was over, there was no Warsaw. And again there were little to zero Lithuanians in Vilnius.


Germany, Russia, Czech, Hungary, Sweden, Lithuania etc. had their share of wars they started. Countries start wars where they see their interest. Deal with it. The only reason I can't think of Ukrainian wars is that Ukrainians never stepped up to create their own state until late XXth century.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


It appears less than 500 people volunteered to Polish Wehrmacht, even less actually showed up for recruitment. Where and when was that 72th Regiment formed?

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

According to the link you just posted:

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


They were individual soldiers, no Polish troops of any level were organized. That's how it works.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


I wouldn't be so sure of that, given how desperate they were at that time.


How many Poles were there in the German army? Please provide a source.


That's not how it works.

edit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_the_Wehrmacht

So not really, Poles weren't fighting for German army.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

Weren't Germans compulsorily drafting even teenagers towards the end of the war as their man force was heavily depleted? As for not deserting wasn't death the punishment for deserters (like in the Red Army)?

Regardless, those were individuals, not Polish troops as you name them. Polish troops were only on one side in Africa, among Desert Rats.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

Poles compulsorily included in German army (like Tusk's grandfather) don't exactly count as Polish troops.


Lithuanian government which was not set in Vilnius. Period.


Maybe. It's not like Lithuania, Czech, Germany, USSR and Ukraine played it all fair, either.


Shame for Lithuania that they entered the theatre of war and lost? Maybe, but they bet on the wrong horse and got what they deserved.

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]

Once I met one German guy that had such thick accent that I thought he was speaking German unless I really tried to understand what he said. German pronunciation of 'th' is especially funny.

What does 'vremya' mean?

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]

I didn't judge his competence though, simply stated that he does an awful lot of spelling mistakes.


I saw several German people making attempts at learning Polish and let me say they weren't natural born geniuses LOL. Even their English is usually very wonky.

As to one of your earlier questions, 'ą' used to be nasal 'a', but transformed into nasal 'o' when the long vowels disappeared in Polish. Maybe you already know that, though.

Language / The usage and future of the special Polish letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź (Polish language) [203]


Well it would be nice if you clearly stated why you wrote that what you wrote in the brackets and a) if you knew what wave interference was at the time of writing, b) you knew that it was not wave interference that actually caused the invisibility (or weaker visibility) of stars in urban areas.

So far everything looks like you look for sketchy and far-fetched sources just not to admit that you were wrong.


There are Caltech sources and there are Caltech sources. I know Feynman's as well as the textbook's editors' contributions to physics, additionally the textbook is worldwide recommended and used tool for education on the first year of physics(-related) studies. OTOH the website you posted could be made by a freshman student.


That's hilarious. You make a lot of spelling mistakes and when I pointed that out, you spin it that I shouldn't judge your English skills. The second excuse is even more amusing, since a) you should review your text before submitting (should take ~15 seconds), b) pretty much every piece of software checks spelling and underlines unknown vocabulary, which makes correcting even easier.


Of course. But earlier on you stated you had no interest in scientific point of view.

OK, I'm out of this discussion and won't reply anymore, since it's pointless.

Language / Need advice on how to improve Polish language skills [134]

Population of Poland + Russia = 180M
Population of the USA = 300M

Number of gold medalists 45:18

I added up Poland and Russia as the languages are ultimately similar in terms of grammar structures, declension etc. Unless you suggest that the probability of natural born geniuses is that much higher in Slavic countries, you can clearly see that the language does not slow down creativity or independent thinking.

There are things to improve in the education system, though.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


Go educate yourself, then go back here.


According to Lithuania and Lithuania only.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


A bunch of lunatics? Pretty much trhoughout WW1 until November 1918 Vilnius was under German administration, in November 1918 the city was under Belarussian administration and fell into Soviet hands a month later.




Simply, in September 1920 Lithuanian were together with soviets on the front that was purely Soviet in June 1920:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Niemen_River

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


Except there wa no Lithuanian administration there, but whatever.


That territory was Polish before the Soviet offensive. When Soviets were withdrawing Poles encountered Lithuanians in the regions previously, effectively Lithuania was a Soviet ally. The truth of the matter is, if Poland lost the Battle of Warsaw, Lithuania would be conquered soon after by Soviets within days. So not only Lithuania made an alliance with a state that wanted to capture them, they also tried to f*ck the country that effectively saved them. Luckily Vilnius went to the fatherland in 1922.


58% according to the German census in 1916.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


Not true. Poles made 60% of all inhabitants of the region.


Again, not true. In November 1918 Vilnius was claimed by newly formed Belarusian state, however shortlived that was (Soviets captured it next month, Poland in April 1919). There was no Lithuanian presence there until the end of August 1920, after Soviets lost the Battle of Warsaw.


Not really, since Poland making counteroffensive in September encountered Lithuanian troops where they were previously pushed back by Soviets. That's effectively joining the war.

Language / Need advice on how to improve Polish language skills [134]


I'm happy you put a link to support me, I'm somewhat unhappy that you put such a misleading title to the link.


Seriously, just drop this theory.

Language / Need advice on how to improve Polish language skills [134]


Bollocks.

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

You're fast :P

Language / Need advice on how to improve Polish language skills [134]

I'll answet to a page 1 post :)


Yes, it's very confusing, but keep in mind you encounter all such cases at the age 2-5 already and your mind remembers a lot of that stuff. Little children make a lot of mistakes - they're just constantly corrected until they get it right. Again, by the time when formal education starts they have problems only with a bunch of examples (eg. poszedłem and poszłem :))

It is amusing to see that you have mostly problems with noun declension as verb conjugation is also in Spanish and can also be quite irregular, yet I don't think you consider it something that slows children's progress down. Language is a tool that is used throughout a person's life and it's better to make the learning curve slightly higher, but keep it powerful, flexible and prone to subtleties that make our life and conversations often so interesting. :)

One example in Spanish that I'm sure you're aware of and is quite basic are verbs ser and estar - all other languages I know simply use one verb for it (PL - być, EN - to be, GE - sein, FR -e^tre) and so on. Every foreigner who study Spanish must wonder why they Spanish would complicate their life that way. Yet I'm sure for you it's very intuitive and you never make mistakes with that verb. Another interesting example, but one that would cause problems only to English speaking people is the words saber and conocer. English only use to know for it, so when they learn mainland European languages, they have to encounter some difficulties, at least initially. And so on and so on.

I'm sure you noticed that Polish doesn't have definite and indefinite articles - when we start studying Germanic or Roman languages, it's a HUGE barrier for us as the concept is totally alien.

Anyway, you have to practice, then practice and finally practice a little more. Also, at least attempt to think in Polish and don't mind that the sentences aren't correct initially - eventually you'll just "feel" the language. The beginnings are always the most frustrating when you study a language, when the sooner you jump into the deep water, the better!

Language / Need advice on how to improve Polish language skills [134]


This is quite simple to explain. The expression "to jest/to są" always goes with mianownik, otherwise it always goes with narzędnik.

To jest mój nowy samochód.
Alfa Romeo jest moim nowym samochodem.

To jest górnik.
On jest górnikiem.

Language / Need advice on how to improve Polish language skills [134]

Your approach is your biggest mistake. You constantly look for analogies between languages you speak and Polish. Now you way of constructing sentences is:
abstract idea -> formulating it in Spanish(?) -> trying to translate it into Polish
Whereas it should be
abstract idea -> trying to formulate it in Polish

Because you focus on learning new grammar structures and try to look analogous structures in other languages, Polish grammar rules seem unnecessarily complicated and you don't see the benefits of it, ie. huge flexibility in its use. For example, order of various logical parts in a sentence can be totally random and the sentence has still the same meaning. Let's take a look at a simple English sentence:

A cook bakes cookies.
You can't really mess around with the order of words as the sentence would lost its sense. OTOH in Polish all the following sentences mean the same!

Kucharz piecze ciastka.
Ciastka piecze kucharz.
Ciastka kucharz piecze.
Kucharz ciastka piecze.
Piecze kucharz ciastka.
Piecze ciastka kucharz.
The last two are quite awkward and the first one is the most common, but they are still all understandable and might appear in daily conversations - while for you the noun declension requires a lot of effort, for a native Polish speaker it's his/her second nature and even if he/she makes a mistake, he/she instantly realizes it and corrects it (it just sounds off). For you Polish declension is only a huge complication, for a Polish speaker rigid sentence structures in other languages can be seen as such.

Germans simplified the orthography a little bit (which is by far the worst in English), however they didn't change much else. A language is a process, not something that you can change at hand by law. A child has no prior experience with other languages and speaks and hears a couple of thousands of sentences a day - naturally the language is learnt quickly and does not interfere with creativity etc.


In fact, quite the opposite. Misspellings are mostly of aesthetical nature, you can be still perfectly understood.

Law / Does Poland have the most prehistorical and strictest banking system in the world? [57]

This thread made me giggle. If anything is prehistorical, it's definitely checks themselves!

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

Temporarily Lithuanian. And I was talking about August 1920.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


There were pretty much no Lithuanians in Vilnius. It wasn't their land, either.


We wouldn't had Lithuania agreed on plebiscite.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]

The city was Polish and no such incidents occurred.


I was talking about Bolsheviks, the only side that recognized Lithuania's rights to Vilnius in August 1920. As Poland did not recognize Bolshevik government until November 1920, your claims that Lithuania entered Lithuanian territory on August 27th is wrong. They were occupying ethnically Polish land until Żeligowski kicked them out.

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


With whom? A party not recognized by the international community as legitimate government of any country?

History / Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]


Why did Lithuania enter Polish territory on August 27th, 1920?