Comments on: If Poland was 100 people

By: Jacek Wesołowski

Jacek Wesołowski — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:31 +0000

Happened to me once. I read a press release in English from a small Polish company and sent them an e-mail, telling them they made such and such mistakes (I don’t even think I was actually correct, my English was much worse back then). They replied with saying that the press release was written by a native speaker. Of course, most Polish companies would claim as much when replying to some random jerk from the Net. Then it turned out it was indeed written by a native speaker. It taught me not to mind any linguistic mistakes at all, not even “poszłem”.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:43:41 +0000

Great Post!

I hate the way Poles correct native English speakers. Of course it could be “If…were….”, but this is considered archaic and very seldom used.

Queuing in the chemist’s LMFAO

Sad, but true…

By: Pioro-Boncza

Pioro-Boncza — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:58:53 +0000

btw that was @ Jubal in defense of richardlillith’s post :^)

By: Pioro-Boncza

Pioro-Boncza — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:57:36 +0000

My ex-gf who was Lithuanian could attest to the family stories of how brutally Poles treated ethnic Lithuanians when we ‘liberated’ (read: annexed) Vilnius in 1920 which in the end undermined the existence of their short-lived republic. Her own great-grandfather was tortured and beaten to death by Polish troops. And I don’t think “oh well the Soviets wouldve just taken it over eventually” is a justification for our own atrocities on those lands although indeed those times were just a bit chaotic. As far as Ukrainians go, for centuries they were relegated to poor farmer boy status in the regions particularly arond Lwow (Lviv) while the city/merchant/szlachta classes were Polish – a very similar societal situation to Silesian and Pomeranian regions where the Poles played the role of poor farmer boy and Germans were the city folk.

By: Jubal

Jubal — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:00:17 +0000

richardlith, I am afraid, that you should get your facts right first, and then we can start discussing history and wrongdoings of all nations.

There are nasty things in Polish history, but I don’t really think you would like to go into comparisons with the glorious exploits in history of England and the British Empire.

Because, you know, /chorus/ we don’t want to fight but by jingo if we do… We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and got the money too! We’ve fought the Brits before…

By: Czytelnia « Polemiki emigranckie

Czytelnia « Polemiki emigranckie — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:11:32 +0000

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By: FK

FK — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:51:04 +0000

Excuse me?! Support it with facts, please.

By: richardlith

richardlith — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:26:56 +0000

¨Because we didn’t rob, plunder, murder, rape, steal and in any other way exploit people with other skin colour and race.
Next, we didn’t have to take some of them as our slave, servant or lover to our country and even then years passed talking about them with contempt “Paki” or “bamboo”!!!¨

You did all those things to Lithuanians, Belarusians and Ukrainians instead. No need for the Poles to cross the seas to plunder the locals and try to kill their culture.

By: island1

island1 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:25:59 +0000

Jubal: Lucky escape for me then.

By: Jacek Wesołowski

Jacek Wesołowski — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:56:31 +0000

Let’s murder a few sentences. That will show ‘em!