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Posts by Sylvio  

Joined: 4 Mar 2016 / Male ♂
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Last Post: 1 Jan 2023
Threads: 19
Posts: 155
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Speaks Polish?: Does
Interests: finding work

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Sylvio   
1 Jun 2020
UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [437]

Back to the topic, I would hold off kicking anyone out of anywhere. English women and Polish women look for different things in men. And all things factored in, it would be pretty odd if it were otherwise. A Polish guy is a ruffty-tuffty, straight-up, resourceful guy, ready to fix the toilet, climb into the flat through the window - kind of guy, who won't ask his lady unnecessary, awkward questions. An English lady would have to be 'defrosted' from before WWII to look for such qualities in a bloke. UK ladies like gentle looks, easy manner, dress code, someone clued up on gossip, a fun conversation. No way a Polish guy could amuse a UK woman with his humor, or his clothes sense, unless she a lost article, or an ethnic herself.We Poles are nowhere near the latitude of UK home counties humor. Check some criptic cross words in Daily Telegraph. See if your can conjure up a couple slogans. A UK guy would be very lucky to find a Polka happy with his softly spoken, tentative, ever consenting, vague talk, who shies away from leading and keeping his woman where he thinks she should belong. BTW in comparison, UK guy is much better off trying his luck in US or Canada, where his accent will immefiately put him between an intellectual and a scientist, even if he can't spell his own name.
Sylvio   
10 May 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2223]

At least in US and UK you get the impression that there is a single person behind government decisions. DT or BJ preempt, persuade and justify if there is blowback. In Poland, as clearly visible around C19, its hard to be sure who carries the can for all the decisions coming down. They all glib-talk their way along on the telly, but who does what is shrouded in mystery. This presidential election, e.g. can anyone tell what decisions could be credited to our president?
Sylvio   
29 Mar 2020
News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

My sense is that the role of national governments, inc. their rulings, will gradually move towards a daytine TV "reality show" model, giving way to the model where the real authority slides down to local security juntas, by some loosley defined emergency edicts, letting them basically do what they feel like with citizens.
Sylvio   
21 Mar 2020
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [86]

Patronise; condescend, obfuscate, provaricate, egrandise, bully. Or, hybrids like: weaponised healthcare, identity politics, deep state... It wouldn't take long to fill a page of missing counterparts. Whole notions do not exist, not just words. Our underdeveloped semantics gives something away. What is it?
Sylvio   
21 Mar 2020
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [86]

The ethinc character of Poles tends to speak for rigid rules in the use of language, so there is zero evolution or growth, in an already depleted semantics. Due to some cultural reasons Polish scholars have discouraged elesticity. The result is that all new words are foreign words. Many do not fit in well phonologically. Furthermore, Polish lexicon gives very little room for finessing expressions. So, the only way left around it is through elaboration, common among young students. This is why in general, the brighter the person the more verbiage you get to convey same content. This is a very restrictive environment for young people to grow any cognitive intelligence. The most obvious sign of Polish speakers lagging behind here is in the huge number of English terms and phrases without unique counterparts.
Sylvio   
21 Mar 2020
Work / The level of English of Polish teachers of English. What do you think of it? [101]

Same as most foreign teachers, the class overlay Eng. words onto their native thought train. This is ok at basic command. When they move up to native speakers, who speak little Polish, nobody straightens them out. So you get students who can present in English, but their free talk sucks an awful lot as their 1st language syntax and semantics get in the way. Eng-Pol syntax are way apart.
Sylvio   
1 Feb 2020
Language / Slow Talk in Polish TV [6]

A bilingual Pole, and switching between national news TV channels, I notice a flaw in the Polish TV studio discourse. People, usually some professors or journslists, come to their interviews and debates, without properly preparing their statements. Clearly, overstimating their ability to express their thoughts 'ad lib'. Or, being lazy? I keep hearing time after time, someone, apparantly eager to say something, and once at the microphone, blabbering on, spluttering, pausing to rack their brains for words, repeating vacouous phrases, tip-toeing to finally make their point. Polish language, quite inefficient in the noise/content ratio, makes it worse still. Then I switch to US, or UK TV, and my problem seems to goes away.. Am I imagining this, or is there a problem? Is it that Poles are always happy to wait patiently for things to take their natural course, no matter how long, and I must... take a deep breath and chill out?
Sylvio   
4 Jan 2020
Genealogy / British name Russell in Poland [26]

Against a growing number of British names I do not hear of two names getting given to boys in Poland : Graham and Russell... Is it because they do not ring nice jn Polish ears?
Sylvio   
27 Oct 2019
Love / Why am I so sad about the fact that Polish guys are so good [11]

I agree with you, Felicity. Not only because I am one of those lovely Poles. You must know that there arn't that many of us left, would you belive? Certainly on this forum. And my eyes are blue, so you would get your "twinkles" from me in blue, not green. Even better right? As some have suggested here, we Poles do tend to repeat ourselves. So, whenever you ask me if I love you, you won't just get a 'Yes' for an answer. It will be Yes, Yes Yes, Yes, or even Tak,Tak, Tak,Tak...which may put your mind to the themes of traditional, rural Poland, where they use many 0... tractors, which give similar sounds.
Sylvio   
22 Oct 2019
Study / 90% of Poles have university degree? [57]

I resent the recurring theme on this forum that cleaning toilets is something demeening. Such attitude demonstrates communist indoctrination character damage. All work is a noble act of man, as long as it benefits other people. (So spies and political hitmen excluded).The reward for the headlong trend to look down on manual work, is that we now have a severe shortage of public toilets in Poland. Not sure if any stats exist to back my claim, but the per captia ratio of places where one can use a clean and free WC in Poland whilst walking down a street, vs. same in US must be in 1/1000s .
Sylvio   
19 Oct 2019
UK, Ireland / Are you a Polish smoker in UK? [18]

I smoke roll ups. Take longer to make and smoke, cost less, and workes out less tabacco smoke in lungs per day.
Sylvio   
18 Oct 2019
Love / Do the Polish girls like foreign boyfriends or they just prefer local boys? [34]

Girls always look for what is comfortable first! Not just in Poland. UK is the same. Generally, the thicker the girl the less likely to want a foreign man. Also, all ladies like their men to be confident , full of energy, plans, and able to stand his ground to other men. Foreign men are none of that, regardless of country
Sylvio   
14 Oct 2019
Life / Poland's National Anthem "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" (download mp3) [49]

Well, have it your way, and I shall join in. But I cant help feeling mazurek is a jerky battle cry, thin on love and wisdom, musically whimsical. And its not like we dont have better Polish songs. Still, I agree it maybe wrong to change it. Oh yes, about Napoleon, looked great in paintings, but in the end after being beat to rat-s@$!, even his prison escapes didnt go right. Some "Dal nam przyklad" .. Da!!