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Vlad1234   
20 Feb 2014
History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

The murderous "achievements" of the nazis and the communists were a result of two very deranged ideologies, two beliefs that fought and hated one another yet were eery similar if not identical. One murdered in the name of your race while the other did just the same in the name of your class.

Incorrect. The German Nazis murdered mostly people of the same race with them. You do not have to confuse racism and Nazism.
Vlad1234   
14 Jun 2014
Law / Setting up small business in Poland? [191]

Merged: Opening small business in Poland

How good is now Poland as a place to open a small business?
Which cities are best for a such thing?
What type of business are now best going in Poland? What about automotive repair service?
How much does it cost to rent or to buy a not too big automotive repair garage?
What are taxes and regulations now?
If Poles will know that an owner of a garage is not Pole but Ukrainian, will they less likely to become a clients?
What size of profits could be expected in modest case?
Vlad1234   
20 May 2015
News / Magdalena Ogórek - a new hope for Poland? [11]

How a memmber of the Communist Party (SLD),

SLD is abbreviation of "Democratic Left Alliance". A Communist Party? To your knowledge Communist Party (Polish United Workers' Party) ruled Poland barely 44 years, not 60.
Vlad1234   
20 May 2015
Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

It is often claimed Scythians and Sarmatians spoke ''Iranian" languages. So, Slavic people would have be a result of a profound transformation if they are their descendants...
Vlad1234   
20 May 2015
Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian_languages

they are hypotesis,that slavs themselves are of iranian descend,..migrated north from persia and mixed with balts ect.darius called slavic land "little persia"

Even if it have happened it happened more then 4 thousands of years ago. Maybe 7 thousands. Obviously that early Slavs were Nordic mostly. Blond and blue-eyed. Here is a map that shows Indo-European migrations in the last 4.5 thousands of years. If to believe in this hypothesis Southern Russia and Eastern Ukraine have been homeland for almost all modern Europeans. (With exception of Finns and Hungarians).

Kurgan

Scheme of Indo-European migrations from c. 4000 to 1000 BCE according to the Kurgan hypothesis.
* The magenta area corresponds to the assumed Urheimat (Samara culture, Sredny Stog culture) and the subsequent Yamna culture.
* The red area corresponds to the area which may have been settled by Indo-European-speaking peoples up to c. 2500 BCE.
* The orange area to 1000 BCE.
thescienceforum.com/anthropology-archaeology-palaeontology/28249-english-russian-language-similarities.html
Vlad1234   
20 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

Depends on meaning could be a variants:
In Russian
1) A guy without money - "golodraniec"
2) A guy without pants - "golozadyj"
In English
"A deadbeat" , " a ragamuffin" .
I will not search for more vulgar expressions.

Polish_herb

Ukraine_herb

Belarus
Vlad1234   
20 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

Vlad, very interesting indeed. Did you compile all these words yourself or get them off some database? Whatever the case, it took lots of compiling.

I compiled them myself. Didn't use any database. I used Google translate to verify Polish words and their meanings and other sources such as wikipedia. It wasn't difficult. Being native Russian speaker I could often predict which words could have common origins and not borrowed from non-Slavic languages. Also I read Polish texts and could have imagination about similarities. So I just take some Russian word and verify its Polish counterparts and cognates. Also I often verified etymology of Russian words, their Protoslavic and old Slavic origins and which Polish words also have the same roots. I think to create database in which Old Slavic roots of these words will be shown as well.

I do not claim all words I compiled have ancient common roots. For example samolot or kukurydza. However somolot is comiled from two ancient Slavic words "sam" i "latac" or "letat". Protoslavic - *letěti. Old Slavic - лєтѣти. Etc.
Vlad1234   
20 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

All of them? Do you really thing I have nothing to do in my spare time?

Yes, definitely not studying languages...

but you continue to use google translate hoping it works well...

I do not claim it always does but mostly yes. It seems somebody modifies it just on the run. For example not too long ago it mentioned a word ''lico'' as a Polish variant of face and not anymore. However some sources claim that there is a word ''lice'' in Polish which means cheek or face. So, I would be really glad to see an ultimate version of Polish dictionary in Google translate... Desirably it also have to mark which words are Polish modern and which are archaic or out of use.

Though I understand that some Poles would want to rid of those words in their vocabulary which are similar to Russian...
Vlad1234   
21 May 2015
Life / My Słowianie (music video mocks stereotypes about Poles and Slavs) [46]

I've appreciated this song when saw it on Eurovision in Youtube
youtube.com/watch?v=q8J3GAg5zaI

I would wish it become Eurovision winner.
Ukrainian and Russian performance was great as well, though.
I like the idea of the song. Donatan's mother is Russian, it explains it...
Vlad1234   
21 May 2015
Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

I do not understand what is the reason to establish links beween Slavs and Sarmatians. Sarmatians disappeared thousands of years ago...
What difference does it make?
Vlad1234   
21 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

From Proto-Slavic *govoriti, from Proto-Indo-European *gow(H)- ("to call, cry").
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C#Etymology

One could choose words that are completely different in the two languages such as the words for bed, tie (worn round the neck by men), chill/cold, lips and many more

English - Polish - Russian
Bed - łóżko, łoże - Loże (archaic)
Lips - Usta - Usta (archaic)
Frost - Mróz - Moroz
Chill - Chłód - Cholod
Tie - Was borrowed from what languages?
Vlad1234   
21 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

Please, study Russian first. Ice cream in Russian is ''morożennoje''. Due to reduced unstressed vocal it may sound like ''marożennoje''. Word ''lody'' would be understood by a Russian like ''icicles". Not to distant from ''ice cream''...
Vlad1234   
21 May 2015
Life / Why are Polish so conservative and religious? [240]

When the frogs were murderdering clergy and burning chruches and turning their country in a "Be my brother or I'll kill you" blood bath

What the events are you talking about?
Vlad1234   
21 May 2015
Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

If believe to this map, Sarmatians lived side to side with Balto-Slavs. Later they had been displaced be Germanic Goths tribes.

balto-slavs

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatians
Vlad1234   
22 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

Which list? There was no Polish word ''sklep'' in my list. There is word ''Sklepienie'' which means vault. Is it wrong? Do not make me laugh. If there would be many mistakes they and you would already list them all immediately.
Vlad1234   
22 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

Other than that, your English is rather good.

Thanks, but you overestimate. My largest problem with languages is pronunciation. English is a hard one. But doesn't go in comparison to French which is by far more difficult. However in private conversation I have no more problems. Listening to radio or TV (not loud enough) could be challenging. Polish pronounce is difficult either. What is your native language? Are you a Sorb? There is a "Krabat" novel in which one of the guys (a Sorb) got name Lyzko. It is based on Wendish legend.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krabat
And your nickname?
Vlad1234   
22 May 2015
Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

Merkel was born in 1954 as Angela Dorothea Kasner in Hamburg, West Germany, the daughter of Horst Kasner (1926-2011), a native of Berlin, and his wife Herlind, born in 1928 in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) as Herlind Jentzsch, a teacher of English and Latin. Her mother was the daughter of the Danzig politician Willi Jentzsch and maternal granddaughter of the city clerk of Elbing (now Elbląg, Poland) Emil Drange. Herlind Jentzsch was once a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and briefly served as a member of the municipal council in Templin following the German reunification. Merkel has Polish ancestry through her paternal grandfather, Ludwig Kasner, a German national of Polish origin from Posen (now Poznań). The family's original name Kaźmierczak was Germanized to Kasner in 1930.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel#Early_political_career
Vlad1234   
22 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

Wow! That's quite a list! Incidentally, the normal word in Russian for horse is łoszad' and for dog -- sobaka.

If you want to specify a sex of an animal you never should tell ''loszad'' or ''sobaka'' if this is a male. Only ''koń'' or ''pios''. Loszad' and sobaka stand for a female or neutral sex only.
Vlad1234   
22 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

"nedela" = Russian "week" > "ne" + "dela" = not work vs. "niedziela" = Polish "Sunday"
....ad infinitum!

English - Polish - Russian
Monday - Poniedziałek - Poniedielnik
Tuesday - Wtorek - Wtornik
Wedneday - Środa - Srieda
Thursday - Czwartek - Czietwierg
Friday - Piątek - Piatnica
Saturday - Sobota - Subota

Very different?
Vlad1234   
23 May 2015
Life / My Słowianie (music video mocks stereotypes about Poles and Slavs) [46]

Though I like the general meaning of the song I have to admit that performance on the scene was a bit vulgar. They could easily avoid these mini-skirts (which looked awful) and demonstration of a certain body parts. All this could be done much more appropriate. True Slavic beauty doesn't need to show underwear...
Vlad1234   
23 May 2015
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

parents and grandparents who grew up in the communist era and still have that mentality

So called ''communism'' (how some Poles call it) continued just for 44 years (or less). Could you call it an ''era''? It was an episode in a life of a single generation. And Poland is no more ''communist'' 25 years already. How long this speculations will continue?...
Vlad1234   
23 May 2015
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [238]

Hundred - Sto - Sto
Ten - Dziesięć - Diesiat'
Thousand - Tysiąc - Tysiaća
Two - Dwa, dwójka - Dwa, dwojka
Three - Trzy - Tri
Four - Cztery - Czietyrie
Five - Pięć, piątak - Piat', piatak
Six - Sześć - Sziest'
Seven - Siedem - Siem'
Eight - Osiem - Wosiem'
Nine - Dziewięć,dziewiąty - Diewiat', diewiatyj
Twelve - Dwanaście - Dwenadcat'
etc...

.....Sunday - Vozkresenyie!

Resurrection - Wskrzeszenie - Woskriesienije
Vlad1234   
24 May 2015
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

Well, it has the strong historical influences from the Catholic West, namely, Rome (located in South Central Italy), therefore, I tend to classify Poland as Central European

So, if Ukraine would be Catholic it would be part of Central Europe as well? And if it would be Muslim it would be part of Middle East or Maghrib? I didn't know that there is such a thing as a ''Religious Center of Europe".