Law / Best inexpensive new car? [23]

If you had a rich uncle who offerred to buy you one of the cheaper new cars available in Poland would you choose a Fiat Panda, Chevrolet Spark, Suzuki Alto or Dacia Logan and why?

Persoanlly, you might prefer to get the money and invest in an upper-shelf, several-year-old Audi, Peugeot or Alfa Romeo, but he insisted on a brand-new low-price make -- take it or leave it!

Law / SKOK Stefczyka? [5]

Is SKOK Stefczyka a parabank, cooperative bank, savings & loan or what? Are they ,more reliable than Ambergold and Fintroyal? Do customers have to pay the Belka tax or their captial gains?

History / Forced Polonisation campaign? [16]

I happened to consult £asków on wikipedia and its Polish version said the village was mostly inhabited by Ruthenians and that its Orthodox chruch was destroyed in 1938 as part of a ' Polonisation campaign' (akcja polonizacyjna). Anyone know how widespread that campaign was? Would it have been carried out mainly in reprisal af'gainst a village guilty of sabotage or terrorist acts (those did occur in the inter-war period after all)? Also Piłsudski's legionnaires got land in the Kresy to settle. How widespread was that?

Food / What Polish dish would you cook for a special occasion? [4]

If you were put in a position where you had to rpepare a meal for a special person -- futurte parents-in-law, your boss, professor or whoever, and the only requirement was that it had to be typcially Polish and prepared by you at home, what would you choose?

Language / Have you ever heard 'destynacja'? [19]

I heard someone saying on Polish TV that when you take small kids along on holiday you should 'wybrać destynację, która je zainteresuje'. Do you like this type of linguistic creativity? Is it enriching the Polish language or bastardising it? What is the motivation, in your view, of most 'enrichers' or 'bastardisers' (as you prefer)? Trying to be cute, trendy, funny, impressing others with their alleged fluencey in English, a ltitle of all or something else? In the American Polonia you hear a lot of this: Jasio ma w niedzielę graduację.

Language / Ł -- English double-u or hard L sound? [30]

Before the war pronouncing the £ like the English W was regarded as low class, uncouth and vulgar. After the war, since the rabble came to power under Soviet bayonets, it becmae the norm. How do you petrsoanlly relate to someone pronouncing the classic hard L the Russian way? High class, snobbish, silly, indifferent?

Language / De-diacriticalisation of Polish? [9]

I notice Polish texters and even e-mailers ignoring Polish accented letters or even upper case ones for the sake of speed and convenience. In the long run -- after one or two more geenrations of this -- could this not lead to the disappearance of Polish diacritics altogether?

What do you thinjk of a reform of Polish orthography. Some say Polish should emualte the Czech and other Slavic models of using the haczyk instead of sz, cz and rz.

Others suggest spelling things phoenticallly: bende jutro o piontej or simply dropping the accents: bede jutro o piatej.
Co o tym sądzicie?

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]

On the 2nd anniversary of Komorowski's presidency it turns out that he enjoys good politcial support (around 70%). Why do you think that is the case?

History / 75th anniversary of Stalin's 1937-38 anti-Poland genocide [32]

So much is said about Katyń that not many people know that in 1937-38 Stalin's Jewish henchman Nikolai Yezhov signed ordered a murederous anti-Polsih rampage that left up to 140,000 Poles dead. Just being Polish was enough the earn the death penalty. Eventually Yezhov also got the axe.

To mark that anniversary, check out:

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