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Posts by Antek_Stalich  

Joined: 6 May 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 24 Jun 2011
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Posts: 997 		From: Poland, Brwinów
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Antek_Stalich   
17 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Absolutely, yes. Two places 40 km apart in the Polish Silesia speak two different dialects and we have even not reached Cieszyn, not saying about crossing the river Olza/Olše. The language revival in Silesia will be long process. Yes, there is literature, and Ruda Śląska is the very heart of the revival. Note the alphabet; taken in the account general easy-going nature of the Silesians, I even doubt if they will ever care to make Formal Silesian and learn it. They have been there since 14th-15th c already, so why should they care?

Would you like to say anything related to the Czech language or are you flaming, MediaWatch?
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Because of course the former PM would advertise his bank account number to the entire world, I presume?
Do you advertise your own bank account number yourself, gumishu?
How did the former PM get his salary? In cash? If yes, couldn't he be just bribed in cash? It does not make much sense to me.

On topic: Several years ago, me, my wife and some of friends of ours went out of curiosity to a gay club in Warsaw. Nice atmosphere, nice people, nothing really wrong there. I could only notice something strange: The "gays" eyes lit when they could see my wife dancing, strange.
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

I thought it was PiS that wanted to enforce Law & Justice by creating an army of police and intelligence services?
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Antek_Stalich: How did PM Kaczyński get his salary? In what form?
Why do you care? You claim to be tolerant but attack the guy for his private life?

As far as I know, all state employees get their salaries transferred to their bank accounts (ROR). The finances of a public person, especially of Prime Minister are not in the private domain. Otherwise, it means black money.

I'd like Law & Justice make a check on Mr Kaczyński to verify their political programme.
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

you see - black money - do you not see the reason why one could not want to have a bank account :)

The only reason for not having a bank account is tax evasion.
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Taking into account more than 60% of money circulating in Poland is in so-called "grey zone", that is, outside the taxation system, the PM Kaczyński was doing splendid work to convince Poles not to pay taxes to his Government.

The topic: Homosexuality in Polish Culture
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

posuchejcie - posłuchajcie - poslouchejte - Polish is still the closer then Czech

Give me an example of a Polish song including the exact word "posłuchajcie".

an if you can trace a word of German here I will pay you 10 000 bucks

You are lucky I didn't quote more of the Gelynder Blues:

W Katowicach na banhofie, elektryczne schody som
We wieżowcach szwedzkie windy, automatic full
Ale ja mom w rziyci te wygody bo...
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

"Posłuchajcie teraz mojej opowieści" -
absolutely normal in Polish.

Any song including these words? ;)

I have to tell you something. The Silesian is not only about the words, grammar, it is also the pronunciation making the Silesian Silesian. If you listen to the singer in my video of "Gelynder", you'll notice he actually pronounces "mój" as "můj". I can assure you, gumishu, you could not pronounce like that. This is why we are gorole and they are hanysy (lower-case).
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Of course they would not! Anyway, if you are by chance in some region really distant from Silesia (e.g. augustowskie), enter a shop and ask for "gorzoła", you'll get the question "A Pan to ze Śląska?" (You are from Silesia, aren't you) guaranteed ;-) I have already tried that ;-)

Just think gorzałka used to be an ancient Polish word...
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Language / Why when spelling Polish names abroad, Polish letters are ignored? [68]

Poles make every effort to spell foreign names exactly as in the foreign language, why not in reverse?

Nah, not really, perhaps in the newspapers because the modern technology allows that but it is not mandatory. Besides Lyzko, there are these variants of some foreign names in Polish

Mao Ze Dong, Mao Tse Tung - which is correct, you think?
Pekin (we do not use Peking or Beijing)
Nankin (we do not write Nanjing)
Tokio (not Tokyo)
£ukaszenko, £ukaszenka
Saakaszwili
Szekspir (not Shakespeare)
etc.
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Language / Why when spelling Polish names abroad, Polish letters are ignored? [68]

Moskwa

Mahskvah, if you want to keep it phonetic in English.

What about Monachium, Norymberga, Kolonia, Rzym, Padwa, Praga, Paryż? Do you get my point? Muenchen is Mnichov in Czech, by the way.

Antek_Stalich: Tokio (not Tokyo)
Could you spell it in Japanese, please? ;)

Edo. ;-)
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Language / Why when spelling Polish names abroad, Polish letters are ignored? [68]

Here you have a nice example of a new Polonization.

You could probably visit an optometrist:

Zapis stenograficzny jest tekstem nieautoryzowanym.

Shall I translate this for you? The shorthand writer wrote the name as heard. It is an unauthorized shorthand.
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Travel / Wroclaw-Bratislava (the quickest way to get by car)? [10]

I'll tell you what:
Wrocław -> A4 -> Katowice -> Bielsko Biała -> Cieszyn -> Brno -> Bratislava. Almost all the route on motorways and expressways. Motorways free in Poland on this route, you will need a sticker for Czech Republic and another for Slovakia.

The route via Kudowa sucks ;)
Antek_Stalich   
18 Jun 2011
Travel / Wroclaw-Bratislava (the quickest way to get by car)? [10]

Delph, speed limits:
Poland: Motorway 140 km/h, expressway 120 km/h, dual-lane carriageway: 110 km/h.
Czech Republic, Slovakia: Motorway 130 km/h, expressway 110 km/h.
If you speed up to +19 km/h, nobody stops you. Only pay attention to explicit speed limits.

If you can drive fast, the convenience and speed will make this route perfect. There is only very short segment between I think Frydek-Mistek and Hranice na Morave where you need to slow down a little.

I hate the Kudowa route, got tickets too, it is crammed and slow.

Note:
The Kudowa route is 421 km, of which 228 km on motorways.
The Katowice route is 526 km, of which 454 km on motorways.
Antek_Stalich   
23 Jun 2011
News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]

The Silesians came from all over Europe to the uninhabited lands in what is now called Silesia, Poles, Germans, Czech, other nations. They were able to melt in the pot long before any notion of the nation in the modern sense was ever created. This nation is called the Silesians, they live on both banks of the Olza/Olše River, in the Polish Śląsk and the Czech Slezko, and the language is the Silesian.

The picture has been blurred to some extent because the Silesians identifying themselves as German were exiled to Germany or left to Germany on their own accord after WWII.
Antek_Stalich   
24 Jun 2011
News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]

My point is the settlers to Silesia were Slavic, Germanic, Italian, whoever in Europe was looking for land, went to Silesia at that time. What can you make out of the name Spirro, one of early settler family there, living in Silesia to this day?

Your point was rather funny because you tried to say that it was only one ethnic group that settled in Silesia. And... do you think Scottish are Scottish or Irish today? Or, perhaps they are English since they speak English today?
Antek_Stalich   
24 Jun 2011
News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]

This makes them truly Silesian, while the others are just people living in Silesia.

Although I generally agree with you on most of your points, you have to bear in mind that Silesia was mostly uninhabited in early Middle Ages, which made local landlords take the land and rent out the land first by full pieces then by half-pieces then by quarter pieces to the settlers. According what I have read, Silesian population originates from the settlers, not from original inhabitants that were scarce.

Those other people living in Silesia have a name, you know. They are called Poles. P-O-L-E-S :-)

Gorols. The statistic means nothing, really, Torq. If Upper Silesia were German, 96.5% would declare as German, and if it were Czech, 96.5% would declare as Czech*, still remaining the Silesian. They would not tell you why. This is exactly from the reasons Palivec gave in the quoted post.

*) A look into the statistics of Slezko would be quite informative.

Silesia is a place without Silesians

Wrong, but you have to stay in Silesia for a while to understand.
Antek_Stalich   
24 Jun 2011
News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]

The Lower and Oppeln Silesia were German for very long time, Torq, and even you cannot deny it; otherwise you should deny the Eastern Lesser Poland was ever Polish... The German population of Lower and Oppeln Silesia were exiled to Germany and replaced with the Polish population from the East. Lower Silesia is now purely ethnically Polish (and Greek! Agree?); there is German minority in Śląsk Opolski; but Upper Silesia are Silesians and Poles. Of course, your family in Upper Silesia are gorole, no doubt.

RAK, cabaret on Silesian-German relationships ;-)