What do you think about Poland?
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warpus
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I was just talking about the English word "two". The word "dual" has a whole slew of words in Polish too, same with second, etc.
Anyway, this isn't a pissing contest. It's not like having 17 words for 1 word is very efficient.
holy king
Deity
for all i care poland could be in iowa.
Communisto
Condottiere
Polish folk in real life? Great.
On the internet? Unrelenting.
On the internet? Unrelenting.
Name "Poland" comes from tribe "Polanie". "Polanie" name comes from "pole", which means "field" (esp. cultivated), or "polana" means "lane". Poland is, therefore, "land of fields", or "land of lanes" or something like this.
warpus
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I thought that Polanie referenced "People of the plains" rather than fields and that Polska basically meant "Land of the plains people"
yeah, it could be translated this way as well.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
This is rather like saying the Americans invented capitalism.
Mad Man
Your lord and master
The borders of Europe need to be redone entirely.
Virote_Considon
The Great Dictator
Yeah, i.e. there need to be a lot less of them, i.e. none but the absolute outside border.
Mad Man
Your lord and master
Nyet, ever country in the world should be the size of Czechia or smaller, this would truly make the world a better place.
No, it certainly would not.
I've read about a theory explaining it. Both tribes were called "Polanie", which was due to their higher level of agricultural development, which, in turn, lead to their success in founding big countries. But it doesn't have to be true.
warpus
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When I was a little kid in Poland we learned a myth of how Poland came to be.. it is the story of "Lech, Czech, and Rus" (Lech being an oldschool/alternate name for Polish/Poland)
Anyway, the story goes that there are 3 brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus. Rus goes east, Czech goes south, and Lech stays where he is cause he's lazy.
Of course not true at all, but all slavic peoples obviously have stuff in common, including ancient tribes, etc.
Love it. Very nice and decent central European nation.
Of course their catholicism sucks, but they neither invented that nor are they in any exceptional position regarding bowing to its ideology. German (and Dutch and Swiss and...) catholics are just as annoying in that respect.
Those Kaczynski brothers were annoying as hell too, but i do see that as representative of only a minor part of Poland and Polish society. Painting that as typical and the way "Polish nationalism" was hyped is the typical Anglosphere strawmaning. The way Poland is percieved on this board is ample demonstration of the results of that bias - whatever Polish posters may have contributed.
I tend to agree that the Poles in general look good. It's not about models but ordinary people. It's a median thing.
Most of them (both men and women) have rather cute noses for starters. Which is nice but doesn't make one a model.
The comments in the thread regarding Polish history are absurdly ignorant.
If things like identity or honor can be generated via historical military feats Poland would excell at that and Brits and Americans not geting that would be just fitting...
Poles are fine chaps. Poland is a brotherly country.
Yeah, we learned that too.
And that's the three brothers personified in oaks.
Wikipedia: "Lech, Czech and Rus are also the names given to three ancient large oaks in the garden adjacent to the 18th century palace in Rogalin, Greater Poland. Each of them is several hundred years old."
They were quite distant from each other, so most likely they were just two tribes with the same name, located at the opposite edges of Polesie.
The word, basically, just means "field country dwellers", just as the others were called Drevliane ("the wood dwellers"), while the others - Dregovichi ("the swamp dwellers").
Yeah, we learned that too.
And that's the three brothers personified in oaks.
Wikipedia: "Lech, Czech and Rus are also the names given to three ancient large oaks in the garden adjacent to the 18th century palace in Rogalin, Greater Poland. Each of them is several hundred years old."
Spoiler :
They were quite distant from each other, so most likely they were just two tribes with the same name, located at the opposite edges of Polesie.
The word, basically, just means "field country dwellers", just as the others were called Drevliane ("the wood dwellers"), while the others - Dregovichi ("the swamp dwellers").
