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| RoseNoire Tetraglot Newbie Belgium Joined 6072 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 17 of 25 06 September 2007 at 11:47am | IP Logged | ||
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I would personally not see Copernicus as a Pole - but apart from that a pretty good profile.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6938 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 18 of 25 06 September 2007 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ehh... I don't doubt that he has German ancestry. He lived in the time of "Drang nach Osten" and Torun/Thorn had citizens of Polish and German ethnicity, even though the city has historically been on Polish territory (apart from the time of the partition of Poland when Torun fell under German/Prussian control). If I remember correctly, his mother was German, while his father was Polish. Then again, ideas of ethnicity in the Middle Ages weren't quite the same then as they are now. Who knows, maybe Copernicus didn't even care about such things as he was preoccupied with astronomy. :-)
On the other hand, it's not wrong to consider him to be Polish any more than it is to consider him to be German. He's both. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6938 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 19 of 25 27 February 2011 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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In place of the original section on "Transparency", I have expanded it to mean intelligibility to people who speak a rather closely-related language (i.e. not just learners who speak English).
Over the next few weeks I'll be expanding the sections on transparency in other profiles that I've drawn up. As can be seen in this revised Polish profile, these sections on transparency include comments on intelligibility and a few reliable "shortcuts" or correspondences someone may use to get a slightly better grip on the language in question. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4960 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 20 of 25 09 April 2011 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you wanna commit suicide in Poland, go on the middle of a street, and cry out loud:
Copernicus was German! Sklodowska-Curie was French~! Mickiewicz was Lithuanian! and Chopin was French! You are sure to get killed. Putting this all aside. it's all Written OK, but there are also letters like x and q that don't exist in Polish (maybe x is OK, most people write sex with x, but seks is more Polish). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4641 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 21 of 25 22 September 2013 at 11:37am | IP Logged | ||
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x and q aren't part of the Polish alphabet, however we DO have some borrowed words that begin with these letters. Edited by prz_ on 22 September 2013 at 11:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6011 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 22 of 25 22 September 2013 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | ||
Hmm... like what, quixotyczny ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4838 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 23 of 25 22 September 2013 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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You wrote a great post, Chung, but there are some remarques. Infinitive is not a mood, I
think (this is not important at all). "Syntax is usually subject-verb-object" Not syntax but word order. "6) All Polish vowels are the same short length like in Belorussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian and Ukrainian" This is nonsense, sorry. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4641 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 24 of 25 22 September 2013 at 11:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Like quasi. If it comes to x, it was a rightful letter in the Polish alphabet until the 19th century.
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