Introduce yourselves

Hi Dave, welcome aboard - hope you enjoy your stay!

 

hello !

 

Welcome everyone, and welcome back to those who came back

 

Thanks it is a bit quiet. but i might pop bye.

 

Howdy. It's been a while ince my last visit here. But problems at the University and writing for two websites prevented me from comig back. Now I'll try to be here often enough for you to get bored with me ;-P

Welcome back.

Before leaving I asked Roel about starting a new thread. I'l see if somebody has created one like that since then...

 

Dziendory Jagshemach. (I know I cant spell, esspecially in Polish, left dictionary in other room)


Welcome back I doubt I will get bored of having anothjer Polish member here.

 

What's so amusing about Polish members? :>

You can't "Dzien dobry, jak się masz?"

Nobody has.

 

Im Polish tjhat is what is fun, I can say it I just don;'t know how to spell it as Iam illiterate in Polish. I can ahve a conversation on a Grade 1 level.

 

That's great. And have you ever been to Poland?

 

Moved out after I finished grade 1.

 

I see. So, last two questions, if I may Where did you live and have you been to Poland since moving out?

 

I lived in Lublin and I was born in Krasnik and Iam told i lived there till I was around 3 or 4. unfortinutely I have not been to Poland since I left.

 

Hello ! :smile:

Well, I am a 17 y.o. man from Poland.

My name is Benedykt (but don't tell me, that my name is like Pope's name ) Millitary is my hobby, but from WW II mostly interest me Operation Overlord...

This forum advice me Airwolf (thak's :smile: )

// My english isn't be good, that don't laught from me

 

Welcome to the forum

 

"A man", he says

Hello, Benny. Oh, wait a minute... Isn't that like the Pope's name? Or that cat's name, the one that hung out with Top Cat? Or that taxi driver from the movie with Arnie Terminator? Or... Old jokes, eh? :kill:

Welcome. I'm glad I could convince you to join. Hope you'll have a v. nice time.

 

Welcome Cypherq, what part of Poland are you from.


Airwolf do you know the old name of Gdansk? I like that 1 better.

 

Part of Poland - Silesia ...city Katowice, Sir!

10h way to Airwolf...

 

I do know it; the old (=previous) name of Gdansk is Danzig, this name is German. Earlier it would be called Gyddanyzc, Kdansk, Gdanzc, Dantzk, Dantzig, Dantzigk, Dantiscum, Gedanum or finaly, in Latin, Gedania. The last one sounds pretty nice but I'm for the current name.
Hard to pronounce? Then call it Gedania. Still many Poles associate "Danzig" with the obviously unpleasant times of Nazi occupation. I can't blame them... And if a foreigner uses this name in Poland, he's bound to be taken for a German (at least according to my observations).

 

Cypherq please dont call me sir im only 17 born in Krasnik, Poland live in Canada. only lived there till I was 8 only remember living in Lublin. Althought I hear Lublin has one of the worst economies in Eastern europe.

Airwolf have you ever seen the WWII poster Danzig is German? Actually I translated it , it was Danzig ist Deutsch.

 

I have. I even have a reproduction (reprint? What should be the word) of it at home. That's exactly why it's a bit risky to use the word "Danzig" in Poland if you are not German - then you're obviously excused, since it's the name of the city in your language.

At my previous sudies I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by prof. Timothy Garton Ash, a British expert in especially eastern European politics. Though the lecture was devoted to a completely different issue, he did spend a minute or two to the name of Gdańsk. It's his remark on the "riskiness" that I've quoted above.

BTW: aren't we getting far off the topic? :>