"I don't like "adopted" animals. But human is human. I am an old man and I like these conventional formulas and ways of thinking. Even saying that even the favourite dog “died” would be abroad to me. No, the dog unfortunately died," said well-known linguist, Prof. Jerzy Bralczyk. Then a storm broke out in the Polish-language Internet.
If out of thousands of entries and reject only those vulgar and so illegible, 3 types of opinions could be extracted. Styled as a witty one, for example: “Words over time change usage or meaning. For example, the name Bralczyk utilized to mean something. Now it means nothing.” Fair fortunes: “Bralczyk will be a grandpa forever...” And touching: “My dogs will not die. They will die as well as I and prof. Bralczyk.”
Apart from the hysteric spasms of left-wing activists (yes, “lefting” unfortunately exists and is something that is fundamentally different from the left), the thing is worth mentioning for at least 2 reasons. First of all, we have lived to see the time when, for any apparent statement, 1 can become the subject of an organized attack of the Progressive Creed. Whether the issue is biological, social or semantic. The specified message that a dog is not a human being or, for example, that there are only 2 sexes in mammals, immediately causes a furious reaction. You can easy draw a profile of the turkey screamers. They mostly declare leftist views, consider themselves defenders of democracy, support LGBTQWERTY and alleged women's rights. They believe that they are fighting fascism, which they specify as views another than their own.
On the another hand, for almost all his long life prof. Bralczyk was connected politically and environmentally with the company that made spitting on Poland and Polishness a kind of being. He was superb in Wyborcza, he was created by it as the highest linguistic authority, a bit in the context of the ideologically entrenched prof. Miodek. It is no wonder that Bralczyk has been declaring leftist political views for years. Before the last parliamentary election in 2023, he gave support to a candidate starting from the list of KW fresh Left, Dorota Olko.
Today, the revolution that Bralczyk actively supported for decades, gave him a bill for this support. It turned out that the aged professor, putting the apparent thesis, that in Polish we have different verbs meaning the activities and states of people, animals and things, showed its true, reactionary face. Bralczyk has not grown to the next wisdom stage. He did not realize that the pig is now dying, he does not die. Hence, he was judged and convicted by his pupils and fresh proteges. Recognized as a retrograde, professing “Patriarchal values” (whatever it is), and yet as having the first symptoms of old man's dementia. Thus the revolution devoured not so much its own kid as alternatively its own father. Not the first.
The fortunate country is Poland. Our main problem is the crucial linguistic issues. This is the subject of a public debate so renaissance that generations of future historians (assuming that individual in the future will be curious in our history) will be laughing at the first half of the 21st century. erstwhile we at the best decide whether a pig should traditionally die or die in full dignity slow the Polish economy dies. The remains of the Polish manufacture are absorbed or disintegrated by global corporations that are rampant in us. Agriculture exposed to unfair competition from Ukrainian agriculture is in trouble. We hear more and more about group dismissals from the workplace. That should bother you, but it doesn't bother you. The fight for third-rate cases absorbs us to specified an degree that we do not announcement the primary ones. And I think that's the way it is.
Przemysław Piasta
Myl Poland, No. 31-32 (28.07-4.08.201024)
