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marsoe   
30 Apr 2010
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).
marsoe   
30 Apr 2010
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.
marsoe   
27 Apr 2010
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.