Czeslaw Niemen

First of all, I want to apologise for non-using of the Polish diacritics (which are many in the language) in any name below. I just don't have them on my keyboard.

1. Biography. I don't want to be misunderstood as if I'm saying that the biography is wrong. No, it's right. Simply, I have a couple of words to add. "Czeslaw Niemen (the real name is Czeslaw Juliusz Wydrycki) was born in Stare Wasiliszki (Old Vasilishki), a village in Byelorussia, Soviet Union, in 1939. In 1958 he has repatriated to Poland. His scenical name is a pseudonym taken after the name of the river Niemen" That's the information I think may be added. Then, some names of songs in the biography are shown with obscure signs (letters?) just in the places where those diacritics I was speaking about must be. Maybe, the problem is unsolvable due to the difficulties to find them on any keyboard. Don't get me wrong, this is not a pretension to you.                                                                                                                                                 

Let me add one more thing. In the biography you can read the following sentence considering Niemen's album "Enigmatic": "The most notable song from it was “Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod” (A Mournful Rhapsody, in memory of Jozef Bem, a Hungarian solider who served as a Plish Army general in the Polish War of Independence (November Uprising))." The thing is Józef Bem (born 1794, died 1850) wasn't hungarian. He was polish! He was a Polish army general in the November Uprising (1830) and after the fall of it emigrated to France and later to Hungary to become the leader of hungarian revolutionary forces (against Habsburg dynasty who was the mortal enemy of Poland also). After the fall of the hungarian revolution (1849) he went to Turkey, converted to Islam, changed his name to Murat Pasa and served in turkish army until his death (in Aleppo, Syria).

BTW, the correct title of the song/poem is "Bema pamięci żałobny - rapsod".

My apologies for being too meticulous.

BTW, Fassbinder, for non-English words or phrases such as those mentioned in the second item in your latest post above, it would help us if you would write the word/phrase in your post as it should appear. I don't have access to a keyboard with Eastern European keys on it, so I have to use Accessories | System Tools | Character Map which is painfully slow. I do have access to a Portuguese & Spanish keyboard, but ś does not exist in those languages, so I still have to resort to Accessories | System Tools | Character Map. If you type it in your post then we can cut and paste the word/phrase. Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

Edited by Fitzcarraldo - July 03 2006 at 19:26

Nothing wrong with your computer, just my eyes. It should be correct now.

I half suspected as much, Fassbinder. No problem, but for future information you can click on your PC's start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map and select the character with the accent, click on Select and then Copy and then you can paste the relevant accented character into the Message window (or Word or NotePad etc.) and complete the word or phrase. That would be very helpful and much appreciated by all the Errors & Omissions Editors. Many thanks in advance.

I'm polish. I can help. Here are polish diacritics: ą, ę, ó, ć, ł, ń, ś, ź, ż. Use them when needed.

Done. Thanks, Fassbinder.

Following the recent discussion on Agnieszka Swita, I'm posting this.

Agnieszka is of Polish origin, but she isn't a Polish artist. Niemen, on the contrary, was Polish artist and worked in Poland. His name in Polish is spelled "Czesław Niemen". As you can see, the difference is minor -- just a diagonal bar across the "l" in the first name (it indicates that this "l" is velarised, as opposed to the regular "l", which is pronounced like, say, the French or German "l").

Thanks Joolz!