Lyzko
22 Apr 2022
Lyzko
23 Apr 2022
Lyzko
25 Apr 2022
Po polsku / Staram się polepszać się po polsku :) [85]
Ale czy "absolut" jest poprawna polszczyzna?
Prosze roznice mi objasnic, ciekawy jestem!
Ale czy "absolut" jest poprawna polszczyzna?
Prosze roznice mi objasnic, ciekawy jestem!
Lyzko
26 Apr 2022
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [231]
At the moment, Orban's far scarier as an immigrant-bashing anti-West reactionary than Duda ever was, got to give him that much!
When any nation, the US above all, cries out "WE MAKE OUR OWN DECISIONS AND DON'T HELP FROM OUTSIDERS!!" or words to that effect, start angsting, because that doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.
At the moment, Orban's far scarier as an immigrant-bashing anti-West reactionary than Duda ever was, got to give him that much!
When any nation, the US above all, cries out "WE MAKE OUR OWN DECISIONS AND DON'T HELP FROM OUTSIDERS!!" or words to that effect, start angsting, because that doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.
Lyzko
26 Apr 2022
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [231]
Nothing, Milo, in as far as it's not merely a cover for a dangerous and cancerous xenophobia, masked by a pretty venire f.ex. Mme. Le Pen.
Nothing, Milo, in as far as it's not merely a cover for a dangerous and cancerous xenophobia, masked by a pretty venire f.ex. Mme. Le Pen.
Lyzko
27 Apr 2022
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [110]
"Popiol i Diamenty", "Kanal", and of course, "Noz w wodzie" still rank in my estimation as the all-time greatest Polish films, from both a social as well as an artistic/aesthetic point of view!
"Popiol i Diamenty", "Kanal", and of course, "Noz w wodzie" still rank in my estimation as the all-time greatest Polish films, from both a social as well as an artistic/aesthetic point of view!
Lyzko
27 Apr 2022
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [110]
How come, Maf?
At least I found the dynamic tension nearly unbearable and the young fellow who played the hitchhiker was some fine actor, don't you think?
How come, Maf?
At least I found the dynamic tension nearly unbearable and the young fellow who played the hitchhiker was some fine actor, don't you think?
Lyzko
27 Apr 2022
Po polsku / Staram się polepszać się po polsku :) [85]
Ale naturalnie! Ona jeszcze nie wypila swoja kawe LOL
Ale naturalnie! Ona jeszcze nie wypila swoja kawe LOL
Lyzko
27 Apr 2022
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [110]
But not the first of his early shorts, I believe. I maybe wrong about that.
The scenes though aboard the boat are riveting and when I saw it for the first time without subtitles quite a while back, I found I could understand almost completely without having to translate into German:-)
Zygmunt Baranowicz was the hitchhiker, if I remember correctly.
But not the first of his early shorts, I believe. I maybe wrong about that.
The scenes though aboard the boat are riveting and when I saw it for the first time without subtitles quite a while back, I found I could understand almost completely without having to translate into German:-)
Zygmunt Baranowicz was the hitchhiker, if I remember correctly.
Lyzko
28 Apr 2022
Lyzko
2 May 2022
History / How much Poles trust to France? [93]
The French though and the Poles are almost entirely different as a people, in my experience!
First of all, the French have what has often been termed an ironic/"laissez-faire" view of life, quite in contrast to the more serious, impassioned, indeed almost dogged, world view of the Poles. The former have always been told that they're the belly button of the known universe, that they are perfect, classy, savvy, aesthetic and enviable in nearly any way one can think of. This being in stark contrast with the latter whose country had long been (UNFAIRLY!) labled by richer, more powerful neighbors a primitive backwater whose inhabitants were said to have been little more than stupid, lazy clodhoppers living at the far end of "civilized" Europe. Even Chopin has been claimed by the French for their ownLOL
That's scarcely a very happy head start in life now, is it. Furthermore, Catholicism has often been treated with a degree of nominal importance in France, frequently the but of jokes and spite by many a French writer, among them Flaubert. On the other hand, Poles would seem to treat their rock-ribbed Catholic faith with more seriousness than life itself, often crossing themselves in front of a church as a matter of rote whereas the French on average might not show such open religiosity.
Stereotypes as the above may well appear, every stereotype is based to a degree on the truth.
The French though and the Poles are almost entirely different as a people, in my experience!
First of all, the French have what has often been termed an ironic/"laissez-faire" view of life, quite in contrast to the more serious, impassioned, indeed almost dogged, world view of the Poles. The former have always been told that they're the belly button of the known universe, that they are perfect, classy, savvy, aesthetic and enviable in nearly any way one can think of. This being in stark contrast with the latter whose country had long been (UNFAIRLY!) labled by richer, more powerful neighbors a primitive backwater whose inhabitants were said to have been little more than stupid, lazy clodhoppers living at the far end of "civilized" Europe. Even Chopin has been claimed by the French for their ownLOL
That's scarcely a very happy head start in life now, is it. Furthermore, Catholicism has often been treated with a degree of nominal importance in France, frequently the but of jokes and spite by many a French writer, among them Flaubert. On the other hand, Poles would seem to treat their rock-ribbed Catholic faith with more seriousness than life itself, often crossing themselves in front of a church as a matter of rote whereas the French on average might not show such open religiosity.
Stereotypes as the above may well appear, every stereotype is based to a degree on the truth.
Lyzko
3 May 2022
History / How much Poles trust to France? [93]
The Italians also taught the French how to cook. Jon's correct. Add to the list of the manifest destined, pre-and War-time Germany! Only difference then vs. now, is that today Germany's concerned solely with her place in the WORLD, rather than her place in the sun-:) Poland used to stress French in school, later replaced by German, then Russian.
The Italians also taught the French how to cook. Jon's correct. Add to the list of the manifest destined, pre-and War-time Germany! Only difference then vs. now, is that today Germany's concerned solely with her place in the WORLD, rather than her place in the sun-:) Poland used to stress French in school, later replaced by German, then Russian.
Lyzko
3 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
Multiculturalism has become though an economic obligation, no longer a choice, Videobroker!
As long as white America, along with Northern Europe, even the Asian Pacific Rim, above all Japan, refuses to soil their hands with D.D.D (Difficult, dangerous, and dirty) work, multicultualism is here to stay.... even Poland will eventually feel the brunt of such unstoppable competition, like it or not.
'Couldn't believe Trump four or so years ago, bragging he'd have people from Norway, The Netherlands or Germany coming to apply for jobs in the US rather than "peope from poor, "s####t-hole countries".
If we actually had taken his advice, noone could afford to live in the US any more.
Multiculturalism has become though an economic obligation, no longer a choice, Videobroker!
As long as white America, along with Northern Europe, even the Asian Pacific Rim, above all Japan, refuses to soil their hands with D.D.D (Difficult, dangerous, and dirty) work, multicultualism is here to stay.... even Poland will eventually feel the brunt of such unstoppable competition, like it or not.
'Couldn't believe Trump four or so years ago, bragging he'd have people from Norway, The Netherlands or Germany coming to apply for jobs in the US rather than "peope from poor, "s####t-hole countries".
If we actually had taken his advice, noone could afford to live in the US any more.
Lyzko
4 May 2022
Lyzko
4 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
Switzerland though has had to succumb slowly but surely (if adamantly unwillingly) to the slow march of globalization!
I read some years back in a European trade journal that even mega firms e.g. Swatch or Omega which haven't completely outsourced, continue to use exclusively foreign-born aka non-native Swiss labor for line-level work in areas which haven't as yet been totally automated.
This information may well be faulty, but somehow, even countries such Switzerland, Monaco or Luxembourg will start to gradually feel the pinch of the real world. Not soon enough, I say.
Switzerland though has had to succumb slowly but surely (if adamantly unwillingly) to the slow march of globalization!
I read some years back in a European trade journal that even mega firms e.g. Swatch or Omega which haven't completely outsourced, continue to use exclusively foreign-born aka non-native Swiss labor for line-level work in areas which haven't as yet been totally automated.
This information may well be faulty, but somehow, even countries such Switzerland, Monaco or Luxembourg will start to gradually feel the pinch of the real world. Not soon enough, I say.
Lyzko
4 May 2022
History / How much Poles trust to France? [93]
How can anyone "hate" bigos, wedliny, zurek or kielbasy?
How can anyone "hate" bigos, wedliny, zurek or kielbasy?
Lyzko
4 May 2022
History / How much Poles trust to France? [93]
Gimme good, stick-to-the ribs podsilek any day of the year... kosher or not, here I come! -:)
Gimme good, stick-to-the ribs podsilek any day of the year... kosher or not, here I come! -:)
Lyzko
5 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
Demographic shifts determined by economic necessity have obviously always been the contributing force in globalization, much as it was during the years from roughly 1880-1925 in the United States, during which time some several million immigrants/refugees flooded American shores.
While Emma Lazarus' indeed moving words at the base of Lady Liberty reveal part of the story, surely it was the lure of cheap labor which held sway in the wake of the Chinese fiasco!
Let us though not forget the Immigration Act of 1925, hereby prohibiting immigrants from certain countries such as Italy from coming to the US. As a result, fewer children were born and the need some forty years later for "importing" those from Latin America and Southeast Asia to fill the void became ever more urgent.
Demographic shifts determined by economic necessity have obviously always been the contributing force in globalization, much as it was during the years from roughly 1880-1925 in the United States, during which time some several million immigrants/refugees flooded American shores.
While Emma Lazarus' indeed moving words at the base of Lady Liberty reveal part of the story, surely it was the lure of cheap labor which held sway in the wake of the Chinese fiasco!
Let us though not forget the Immigration Act of 1925, hereby prohibiting immigrants from certain countries such as Italy from coming to the US. As a result, fewer children were born and the need some forty years later for "importing" those from Latin America and Southeast Asia to fill the void became ever more urgent.
Lyzko
5 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
Cheap labor, Rich. Ya want a Mexican or a Norwegian employee if you're the employer?
Cheap labor, Rich. Ya want a Mexican or a Norwegian employee if you're the employer?
Lyzko
5 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
As a good Capitalist businessman, still prepared to shell out over fifteen bucks an hr. while your competítor's only payin' ten cents on the dollar for the same job?
As a good Capitalist businessman, still prepared to shell out over fifteen bucks an hr. while your competítor's only payin' ten cents on the dollar for the same job?
Lyzko
6 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
@Milo & Rich, all I've been saying is that multiculturalism aka "globalization" is a direct consequence of the irresistable lure of cheap labor among the world's long industrialized nations,for example, the US, Sweden, and Germany. This is a mutated outgrowth of capitalism, yes even the Nordic variety. What's so bloody difficult to understand, guys?
@Milo & Rich, all I've been saying is that multiculturalism aka "globalization" is a direct consequence of the irresistable lure of cheap labor among the world's long industrialized nations,for example, the US, Sweden, and Germany. This is a mutated outgrowth of capitalism, yes even the Nordic variety. What's so bloody difficult to understand, guys?
Lyzko
6 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
As Sir Winston once remarked (to paraphrase), Western democracy is the most ineffectual form of government on earth, but do we have anything better?
Still haven't answered that one.
I assume you wouldn't prefer a Hitler or a Putin! One Trump was bad enough.
As Sir Winston once remarked (to paraphrase), Western democracy is the most ineffectual form of government on earth, but do we have anything better?
Still haven't answered that one.
I assume you wouldn't prefer a Hitler or a Putin! One Trump was bad enough.
Lyzko
6 May 2022
Language / Polish Accusative / Genitive case [20]
This whole genitive/accusative thing is best learned in context, rather than as a series of isolated rules.
Suffice to reiterate some of jon's post that for every verb in the negative (except for "byc" or "bywac" = to be), the genitive case is automatically required, much as for every verb governed by the direct object in the affirmative, naturally the accusative case is normally required.
Of course, mattters do indeed get rather more complicated when the issue of "living vs. non-living virile or masculine" nouns and the accusative come into play:
Widze sklep okolo banku. = I see the (masc.non-living) SHOP next to the bank. (acc.)
vs.
Widze chlopcu na rogu. = I see the (virile LIVING) boy at the corner. (genitive)
The stuff is invariably learnable, so don't throw in the towel!
Whoops, typo! First sentence should read: Widze sklep obok banku.
This whole genitive/accusative thing is best learned in context, rather than as a series of isolated rules.
Suffice to reiterate some of jon's post that for every verb in the negative (except for "byc" or "bywac" = to be), the genitive case is automatically required, much as for every verb governed by the direct object in the affirmative, naturally the accusative case is normally required.
Of course, mattters do indeed get rather more complicated when the issue of "living vs. non-living virile or masculine" nouns and the accusative come into play:
Widze sklep okolo banku. = I see the (masc.non-living) SHOP next to the bank. (acc.)
vs.
Widze chlopcu na rogu. = I see the (virile LIVING) boy at the corner. (genitive)
The stuff is invariably learnable, so don't throw in the towel!
Whoops, typo! First sentence should read: Widze sklep obok banku.
Lyzko
6 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
Spot on, jon!!
Kinda like armchair communists or weekend warriors.
They both talk big until it comes time to do something:-)
Spot on, jon!!
Kinda like armchair communists or weekend warriors.
They both talk big until it comes time to do something:-)
Lyzko
6 May 2022
Language / Polish Accusative / Genitive case [20]
Ach, przepraszam! Dzieki, Lenku-:) Chyba to bylo blad typograficzny.
Ach, przepraszam! Dzieki, Lenku-:) Chyba to bylo blad typograficzny.
Lyzko
7 May 2022
Lyzko
7 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
Capitalism has NOTHING to do with democracy and even less to do with "freedom", save for the intrinsic freedom of taking advantage of anyone deemed either rightly or wrongly (often the latter) to be less criminally clever than the other person! Those Chinese billionairs or Russian oligarchs are mega-capitalists, Czar Vladimir included, yet "democrats"??!! Don't make me laugh.
Capitalism has NOTHING to do with democracy and even less to do with "freedom", save for the intrinsic freedom of taking advantage of anyone deemed either rightly or wrongly (often the latter) to be less criminally clever than the other person! Those Chinese billionairs or Russian oligarchs are mega-capitalists, Czar Vladimir included, yet "democrats"??!! Don't make me laugh.
Lyzko
7 May 2022
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [161]
But Rich, how in the long run do YOU benefit from the fruits of unadulterated, pre-New Deal capitalism, if that very thinking can replace you and others like you with un-at best low-skilled, third-world labor at a moment's notice in many cases, and do so with impunity? In the end, you future Trump/de Santis, Tucker Carlson or Scott Walker supporters are just voting against yourselves...as are those reactionary, wrong-headed followers of Trump-style insurrectionism in Europe!
But Rich, how in the long run do YOU benefit from the fruits of unadulterated, pre-New Deal capitalism, if that very thinking can replace you and others like you with un-at best low-skilled, third-world labor at a moment's notice in many cases, and do so with impunity? In the end, you future Trump/de Santis, Tucker Carlson or Scott Walker supporters are just voting against yourselves...as are those reactionary, wrong-headed followers of Trump-style insurrectionism in Europe!
Lyzko
7 May 2022
Off-Topic / Happy Birthday, Rich! [71]
Gee, go figure! Dude sure talks a weird game. Must simply be an attention grabber, pure shock value extraordinaire, eh?
"Novichok" is in real life a staunch Democrat supporter.
Gee, go figure! Dude sure talks a weird game. Must simply be an attention grabber, pure shock value extraordinaire, eh?
Lyzko
7 May 2022
Off-Topic / Happy Birthday, Rich! [71]
Rich must be a Lyndon Larouche libertine.. with a little Duck Robertson and "Connivin"' Cliven Bundy thrown in for good measure! Even Rand Paul's too mainstream.
Rich must be a Lyndon Larouche libertine.. with a little Duck Robertson and "Connivin"' Cliven Bundy thrown in for good measure! Even Rand Paul's too mainstream.