Why Polish Diminutives/Nicknames are so popular?

Nowhere in the world is it so popular to have Diminutives/Nicknames like in Poland, but why?

Some names can get a nickname that is so far away from the original name as it can be.

An extreme example must be the diminutive of Alexandra that will be nicknamed into "Ola".

Some examples:

Michal: Misiek, Misieczek.

Barbara: Basia, Basiulka, Basienieczka.

Janina: Janka, Nina, Janeczka.

Katarzyna: Kasia, Kasiulka, Kasiuneczka.

Piotr: Piotrek, Piotrusiek.

And lets not get into the Extreme Petnaming on people like "żabka, córeczka, kotek, ptaszeczek"

WHY????

My family calls me or well called me kogutek untill i got so mad that they didn't dare to call me that again haha, depressing... ;)

Now it's Pericles, i guess i can live with that...

What is your family calling you?

Because Poles like to use cute names :)

Merged: Nickname by Polish boyfriend

Hi my polish boyfriend has a nickname for me but it sounds like ralneh what does it mean?

1. It's just a name, it has no special meaning.
2. I don't get what a nickname can "ralneh" be. Franek? Which is a diminutive for Franciszek, and that is a Polish equivalent of English Francis.

When he says it it sounds like ralneh or ralni

it can be a nickname derived from his family name and not the first name - it is fairly common in Poland - his surname though could not be very popular and it's difficult to extrapolate it from the nickname

It sounds like oralni or or-alni and its his nickname for me if that helps?

Anyone know the answer?

Any one know what or-ralni means?

It does matter. It creates derivative garbage words that clutter up the language while adding nothing of value - like clarity.

you are absolutely right

To you maybe. A lot of people like to have different and varied ways to express themselves.

Old women are annoying in many ways. That's one of them.
No wonder Polish is considered "difficult". With every Pole having at it to make it a more touchy-feely private mess, it's hard to define what Polish really is. A quick visit to the Polish threads here confirms the brilliance of my comment.

Oh yeah, how do people dare to use the language in a way that makes it more personal and maybe even, god forbid, emotional!!!

Btw, the world urlopik wouldn't be used by an old lady but more by a younger person still in their productive years as they are the ones having urlop.

How do people dare to use standard grammar and punctuation. Why not make everybody happy and let them have their own. Like sex or gender. Mine is number 37 on the list for the next 15 minutes.

Urlop = 7 days. Urlopik = 2 days. Is this how this nonsense works? How about urlopisko? Urlopeczek? Urlopunio? I can go on like this forever...

I hope you only play a moron but here:
The flexibility of diminutives adds to the ways you can express yourself without making the message any less clear or correct. Not the case with punctuation and grammar.

Not that writers don't play with it from time to time