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#72951 06/18/02 03:29 PM
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Dear Adam: i grew up in a town with several shoe factories. Many employees were of Polish descent.
They had a custom of raising money for newlyweds by having guests pay for privilege of smashing old dishes and glasses by throwing them into fireplace. Have you ever heard of this custom?


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it's the distinguishing things we can eat from things that can eat us where the interesting stuff lies


Just to be clear - that's a very close paraphrase of what my prof said. (I probably should have put quotes around that part.)


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So, Polish alphabet has nothing to do with Cyrillic. The only differences from "our" and "yours" are added letters (¹,ê,³,¿,Ÿ,œ,æ), which are characteristic of Polish alphabet, that's all my friend. Of course, they are pronounced differently, because Polish is a Slovian language not as English, celtic(?).

Spanish written down is very similar to Polish. If you know Spanish just imagine that instead of "ch" we have "cz"
and you learn how to pronounce (¹,ê,³,¿,Ÿ,œ,æ) you can read almost every word! I see that there are some spanish speakers here, they would not have problems with Polish


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You see wwh, Poland have history twice as long as USA. We have so many traditions that it is hard to know them all. Even more, I am from central Poland, I don't know traditions from eastern Poland. We have very nice proverb Co wieœ to inna pieœñ ( I am sure a half of population of Poland don't (doesn't?) know this one). It means 'other village other song' (more or less).

I must point that "your" custom is very interesting:)


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Dear Adam: About a week ago, a contriubutor wanted to know origin of name "Carpathian" (mountains).
I could find nothing. Have you any means of finding out?


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I have all dictionaries of Polish but etymological one. Polish name for Carpathian mountains is just Karpaty , I don't have an idea what is the origin, but maybe karpa , which means tne part of a plant or a tree, that is under ground but not simply the root, it can also mean, that what remains after a tree is torn off and cuted ( this thing with the roots).

I like your question. I must check it at school on friday.




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Dear Adam: Perhaps the Polish root you give might mean that the present mountains are just remnants, the roots only, of mountains that many thousands of years were much taller.


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go³¹bki Yep yep - minced meat mixed with rice, wrapped in (outside) cabbage leaves and braised in meaty/tomatoey stock. It's vaguely like the Greek recipe stuffed vine leaves, but a lot nicer. I hated them as a child but love them now


Oooo, we call those "cigar au chou" - cabbage cigar. LOVE the stuff.



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go³¹bki And my Canadian grandmother just called them Cabbage Rolls an my mother in law called them pigs in the blanket.

By the way, I hope that copied Ok. I am not getting the polish letters on my screen: I am getting numbers instead!


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Dear belMarduk: Do you know how to make mincemeat? first you have to shoot a mince................


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