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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂
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From: New York, USA
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Lyzko   
4 Aug 2016
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

Now you need to "translate" from SMSese into standard English. You should charge a fee for it, you make a bundle:-)
Forget learning a second language until the first one has been mastered!
Lyzko   
3 Aug 2016
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

"Taka sobie" can sometimes substitute for simply "nieźle" or "not bad" and "wszystko po staremu" = same old, same old.

:-)
Lyzko   
3 Aug 2016
News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

My Polish is probably on a par with Crow's English, but neither knows German as well as I or Jolly:-)

A mute point, as I'm clearly right in this instance!

As far as the clear split in opinion between what Francis preaches and the points of view I've read thus far, hard times are always the acid test for what unites strong faith vs. recurring fad.

The mean-spirited hypocrisy which supports "Jesus wasn't no creampuff!" and other bilge one hears throughout the broad country of the US, justifying bullying etc. instead of the really tough love of true compassion (even when it strains) is a sharp contrast between those who merely call themselves Christians and those who ARE Christians, and needn't go to Church every Sunday to prove it!!

Europe's center is indeed being challenged nowadays, more probably than at any other time in recent history, at least since WWII and immediately after. It is precisely in times such as these that the resolve and love of Pope Francis is relished as never before.

Dirty shame on those who justify attacks on Muslims (including those who errantly attack Christians Europe in the mistaken belief they are doing Allah's work), when Christianity itself has taught "Hate the sin but not the sinner!"
Lyzko   
3 Aug 2016
News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

@Nothanks, the analogy with Nazi Germany and the Jews is perhaps well-meaning, but faulty and easily misunderstood as "historical relativism"!

The Muslims are non-German speaking, recent and unwelcome arrivals to Germany, brought in by boatload (potential future voting block, don't forget) with one momma of time required to integrate...if they ever can:-) A number have steadfastly and openly REFUSED to do so.

The Jews had been living, working and contributing to the host culture for nearly two-thousand years, practically since the fall of the Roman Empire, a people who assimilated to the point of nearly losing their own identity, JUST to do their host culture proud because they grew to love Germany. Furthermore, the German-Jewish symbiosis was as nearly complete as any other in history; they displayed Christmas trees in their homes, they joined the army to fight against England, gave their lives for THEIR Fatherland and some received the Iron Cross, while many became some of the leading scholars of Goethe, Lessing, Schiller and other Enlightenment figures with a love of the German language second to none, perhaps even the gentile Germans themselves. Mendelssohn, Mahler and others remain staples of our concert repertoire and until Hiler's lunacy, Jews were on the surface as "German" as any German Christian. And that's how it should be, as the Jews truly earned their "place in the sun", merely to paraphrase out of context.

You should reconsider your comparison, as some of us might easily get the wrong ideaLOL
Lyzko   
3 Aug 2016
News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

@Szalawa, you seem not to recognize certain facts of history, namely, that not all homogeneous ethnicities can physically remain, for reasons of either food shortages or lowering birth rates, in their country of origin aka their "own" country:-) Therefore, it is incumbent upon us on certain occasions to extend a helping hand as WE would want such in our case, let's not rationlize: NO man's an island.

The problem in Europe right now is merely that the EU has bitten off far more than it can possible chew, thus giving herself particularly and her member states in general, a permanent case of indigestionLOL

@Wulkan,

Birds of a feather flock together. What you meant to say was that my German and Polish are better than Crow's truly broken English, but you've too much pride to admit it. I know your type all too well.
Lyzko   
3 Aug 2016
News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

Times have changed, Crow, but if you mean that there should be a call for broader tolerance, I completely agree:-)

Unfortunately, the serious missteps of among others the Merkel have made tolerance challenging for far too many to adapt comfortably.
The fault therefore doesn't lie with the poor migrants, unwitting pawns in a game of global glory, but with those in gov't aka the EU which ought to have known and acted better!
Lyzko   
3 Aug 2016
Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]

Yet along with each of the above, including Arabic and Mandarin, you have the whole planet:-)

Russian always was practical, from the Sputnik Era onward!
Lyzko   
2 Aug 2016
UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

I have no doubts whatsoever. A blessed event is indeed just that and no amount of pride can squelch a new dad from providing only the very best for his child, above all, the gift of language:-) As a native English speaker yourself, I'm sure you'll be a fine teacher as well!

G_d speed.
Lyzko   
2 Aug 2016
UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

Everything except the English language, Dreamergirl!!

Frankly, the irony's too pitiful for words, though it seems to have blissfully escaped you.

Fine, let what's his name keep living in his own little La-La Land. He'll wake up one of these years, only the wake up call might not come as a soft morning kiss, but rather a nasty note from the PM's office: "AHOY, MATEY!!! LEARN ENGLISH OR GO BACK HOME."
Lyzko   
2 Aug 2016
UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

'Fraid not, kid! Sure hope not for the UK taxpayer's sake. If I were a Brit, I'd be hoppin' mad. Not too crazy about the analogous situation here in the US either, tell youse the truthLOL

"Baby's father doesn't know English, but wants to become a British subject."

You know, the more I read this the gosh-darn funnier it getsLOL You really can't make this stuff up:-)

And to think of the immigrants of old who gave their front teeth to do something this bloke's basically being given just because Britain needs a foreign builder to build what a native Brit could build!

What a laughin' shame.
Lyzko   
2 Aug 2016
News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

Nothanks, you'd likely be a Trump supporter if you lived in the States:-)

You're positing easy answers to complex problems! The solution is for the wealthier countries aka Northern Europe to build up or grow the economies of these poorer typically Muslim countries so that their arduous trecks to Poland, Germany etc. become unnecessary and the need for their arrival superfluous.

Furthermore, who says that ethnic Europeans, particularly in Scandinavia, only sit behind a desk as managers or become engineers?? Someone's got to remove the refuse, clean the streets etc... We all know why they'd rather die than denegrate themselves, but as there become fewer and fewer births from the rich nations, it looks like they'll have to start re-thinking the outdated myths of their current strategy.

Here in the States, things are similar but the workplace a bit more porous than in Europe and even W.A.S.P college kids (and a good deal older) from Mayflower pedigrees will often be seen as baristas in Starbucks, hair stylists, nail salon assistants and so forth.

Just maybe Europe might draw a lesson, huh?
Lyzko   
2 Aug 2016
News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

"The boot is full!", is that the idea, nothanks?

While I can accept the fed-up feeling which has been slowly blanketing Europe for some time, I can't help but wish that Mis. Merkel and Szydło oughtn't figure out how their respective governments can use their largesse to fund anti-poverty programs respectively in Syria and elsewhere instead of having to ship boatloads of refugees to the teeming shores of countries such as England, Poland, and Germany which can barely handle their own, let alone unneeded surplus:-)
Lyzko   
2 Aug 2016
UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

You're rationalizing there just a bit, aren't you? Sooner,hopefully rather than later), your friend's going to have to make the plunge! Now, you tell us he's a builder, so money can't be the issue with his not learning English seriously. Its probably his Polish pride (nierozumiałność),

:-)