News / 2010 Polish Presidential Election [39]

From PiS's perspective, who else would be able to be a candidate with a shot at winning?

Seems like the alternative was letting the PO win by a landslide - Jaroslaw at least might hold off a PiS vote collapse.

News / Brown's 'Bigotgate' and the debate about Poles [63]

The official numbers are much lower.
In 2001, ~60,000
In 2007/8 anywhere between ~500,000 and ~1.5 million (depending on who you ask)

Also seems to be a much more mobile migration:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5273356.stm (Poles coming in)
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/3248852/Polish-immigrants -leaving-Britain-What-the-Poles-did-for-us.html (Poles going out)

Also the vast bulk (I've seen 62% quoted) of 'Eastern European' migrants are Poles, so 'Eastern European' and Polish may be used interchangeably by some lazy journalists, so that could count towards some of the number confusion.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

Polglish?

Happens everywhere, especially with English words due to their cultural spread. The French have a special hate of English words creeping in.

Other languages' words get absorbed into English as well, especially if it's a second language for that country (eg South African English, Singapore English), as well as with food (eg 'cow' is an Anglo-Saxon word, 'beef' is French).