News / EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania [150]

Germans set up extermination camps where they murdered several million Jews, Poles and other nations.

Language / Adjective endings and masculine-personal in the Polish language [22]

Jesteś pilnym uczniem :)

Language / What I learned so far about the Polish language. [30]

Yours too ;]

Ale: bardzo chętnie bym popisał (tryb przypuszczający!)

dopisać - to write additional lines/pages to an already existing text!
popisać - to write something casually/for fun
popisać się - to show off (usually used in imperfective form popisywać się)

News / EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania [150]


LOL I think they should do it the German way - by genocide.

Language / Adjective endings and masculine-personal in the Polish language [22]

Ale 21-24 lata, 31-34 lata itd, z tym że 11-14 lat :)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

I am not impressed by this gevernment job. They were too passive and did too little to modernise the country (too little reforms) especially in the last year, when the president's veto was no longer an excuse.

Study / Summer camp for English speaking kids in Poland? [30]

Aren't you doing your kids harm by isolating them from Polish environment? So they'll use Polish all the time?

History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]


Compensation was in 1990s paid to compulsory Polish workers who were abducted and forced to work in Germany. That money was pitiful though and nowhere near compensated the traumatic experiences of those people.

Other than that there was no compensation to speak of.

History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]


Quickly - ancestors of Poles lived here in a 1000 years ago, 2000 years ago, 3000 years ago, since despite the migrations, some of the natives decided to stay and live together with newcomers. :) OTOH those who left met different fates and wound up in different territories (like Goths in Spain).


A dying breed :)

History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]


I actually thought about it some more. There were some Germanic tribes in today's Poland. Most of them went away to settle in the Roman empire, though some of them stayed and were quickly overwhelmed by Slavs and assimilated into Slavic tribes, since there were no more Germanic tribes in Xth century on our territories. Which means, that those Germanics that decided to stay were ancestors of Poles, so no matter what way you look at it, these territories are natively Polish.

History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]


By that logic Czechs, Russians, Serbs etc. are half Poles!

History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]


The big differnce is that you make all ancient Germanic tribes ancestors of modern Germans, which is simply not true. You should know better than me which tribes actually were the ancestors as I expect German education system to teach as much...

I could list you the ancestors of modern Poles (Polanie, Wiślanie, Mazowszanie and Ślężanie) and then list of dozens of ancient Slavic tribes that weren't our ancestors.

History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]


Germanic invasions of Roman empire are well documented. German invasion on Slavic tribes in X century is well documented. Where's documentation of wars between native Germanic tribes and bloody Slavics in IV century?


Some Germanic tribes were. Most of them weren't. Most of ancient Slavic tribes are not ancestors of Poles.

History / Are Polish territories natively German? [73]


No, Slavs didn't leave those territories, they were conquered in rather bloody wars and then marginalised. German expansion was luckily stopped in its track at one point when they encountered more established state structures (Polish state).

Regardless, BB, what is amusing is that you won't acknowledge that:
a)Germanic influence vanquished after Slavs settled in those territories. They were scarcely populated to begin with, after Germanic tribes went off to plunder Roman civilization there was even fewer people there and Slavs did find mostly deserted lands

b)Germanic is not not equal to German. Similarly, Slavic is not equal to Polish! You falsely assume that tribes that inhabited today's Poland in 2nd century are ancestors of Germans. They weren't, at least most of them weren't.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Do you consider Scotts as native inhabitants of Germany? After all, they (or other Celtic tribes, which is equivalent to you) were there BEFORE Germanics.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Germans =/= Germanics
And they were nonexistent on today's Polish territory in Xth century.

Unless you consider Scotts as native inhabitants of Germany or something along those lines.

Language / Improving Polish reading comprehension and vocabulary. A downloadable collection of passages? [14]


I'm sorry, but your thinking is totally backwards. You should start reading random texts (articles,short stories and novels) written in ordinary language as soon as possible, so that you get acquainted with actually used vocabulary and phrases.

There's some great computer software to review your previously studied material, Supermemo is pretty nice.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]

Why do you continue to ignore what happened after the IInd century?
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Invasions_of_the_Roman_Empire_1.png
Europe in IXth century (when settlements from II century were LONG forgotten, google much younger Biskupin for an example).
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Europe_814.jpg

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


The question is looped in a way that is impossible to answer. Though I assume that the first 'what' doesn't exist, then yes, I'm telling you what you shouldn't do in this case. That's why this question exist, so that people can inform each other what behaviour is advised/most fit in certain situations. And I'm telling you not to bring up Polish/German/Silesian matter on Upper Silesia, because you were proven wrong in the past and now you're falsely accusing people of denying past German existence in Silesia.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


I told you what you should not do, not what you cannot do.
should =/= can
I think the equivalent of should is in German sollen, of can - koennen.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Regardless, you shouldn't bring up that subject again. You claimed that it was Polish imperialism that conquered Upper Silesia after WWI, when in fact it was native people living in Upper Silesia that were fighting German state without support (official or otherwise) of Polish government. You were proven wrong, time to move on.


Today's big migrations are nowhere near comparable to migrations of those times (well, in relative terms, there are much more people nowadays).

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


These lands were conquered by Slavic nations (not Poles, Polish nationality did not exist at the time), but around year 1000 western and southern border or Poland was more or less the same as it was today. It had never been German before that date. So yes, we have the rights to call those lands re-gained after 1945, even if they belonged to various German and non-German states in the meantime.

Back to IIIrd and IVth century. Germanic tribes mostly deserted those lands in pursue of richer Roman occupied territories, so it's kind of their fault for not maintaining feasible population in their lands.


I never did such thing.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]

If you are German and move to Poland you can attend to German-speaking school that is funded by Polish government.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Again, stop being full of crap. The appearance of Huns caused a mass migration that pushed European nations southward and westward. Germanics deserted those territories. You really are full of crap or German history education is much worse than I expected. You never heard about Vandals' epic journeys? or Goths'? etc.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Not really. They don't have access to eduction in their language even though they pay the same taxes that allow other people that.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


There was not a continuous Germanic presence for 2000 years, stop being full of crap. Pretty much everything east of Elbe was Slavic in V-IXth century, it's later on that Germanics started to reappear on those territories.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Whatever that reason was (I'd be interested to learn it, so you can write more than suspension points), it doesn't change the fact that we did not commit mass systemic genocide on them. Germans did.


Are you sure that if two million people (who have a job, pay taxes etc) disappearing out of the blue would have a good impact on German economy? Can't they have some rights for their contribution?

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


I think you should seriously cut this crap. Jews lived on Polish territories for hundreds of years and there wer much more Jews in Poland and in Germany. There were tensions between Poles and Jews, sure, but we never, at no point, turn extirminating Jews into a doctrine, never did such doctrine gain much popularity (1/3 support is huge) and we never turned such doctrine into grim reality.

Seriously, you've got some nerve.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Now this is hillarious. They voted for and further supported a political party that had genocide and imperialistic ambitions in its program, later on they participated in genocide of millions of Jews, Poles, Russians and other nations. The only reason they were not kicked out from their houses was because they claimed not to be Germans, but Poles or Silesians instead. I don't think their will should be mentioned and since they rejected to be Germans back in 1945, they should not have minority rights.