"Viewed – Unlearned Stars"
...and sports journalists!
It's been a long time since I've been getting ready to compose a letter to you. I inactive couldn't decide, but the text in the section "Watched" – "Unlearned Stars" (Angora No. 15) of Mr Wojciech Barczak was the missing impulse. Journalists and cognition of the native language – this is the subject of the river. I wanted to focus on a very circumstantial group of representatives of this profession, that is, sports journalists. due to the fact that it's actually a subject that sociologists should address, not linguists.
I always thought that sports journalists became journalists who were not fit for anything, but they had a wide back so they had to be pushed in somewhere, and they went to the sports editors. It is no longer so obvious, as the level of deficiency of teaching journalists from another fields of catching up with these sports... I am a keen fan of many sports: from football, ski jumping, biathlon, alpine skiing, to expression 1. And at erstwhile I reserve that I do not intend to choice on language lapsus, mistakes and misconceptions resulting from emotions, due to the fact that these have always happened – any have become anecdotes – and have happened to languages specified as Tomaszewski or Ciszewski. "The match lasts" has been known for decades...
I'll choice on you, first of all, not learning. In this matter, all sports areas are mostly treated equally. erstwhile again, erstwhile I hear about the "longer distance" erstwhile jumping, I am not surprised. "Backwards" and the player who "increases the numbers" are the standard. But apart from the errors resulting alternatively from unreading, journalists and commentators reporting expression 1 races or ski jumps effort to talk correct, colloquial Polish, have ideas for a comic catchphrase and can fundamentally be listened to without liver pain. However, the feats of journalists and football commentators – this is simply a different league...
Here are any examples: ...he plays a advanced percent of accuracy; no right leg at Louis; Imaz has good numbers; they play free; athletes have come for greater certainty; they have pressed the defender well; he has a ball on the outside; he has mental; he may have been retaliated; he could feel the method from him; he entered the greed; the player worked on physics; they will compete on physics; the Raków has centimeters on the front; the player with offensive payoff; he put a gap in Nowak; the player puts energy; he has a utility technique... That's bullshit! And I can't accept the argument that athletics has its interior naming that this is slang. erstwhile the commentators go for beer in their own company, they can talk to each another in specified a slang, but on the air of a nationwide station they are obliged to talk Polish!
Every athletics has its own interior language – especially motor sports, yet motor racing commentators talk the correct language, do not effort to empathize with a hermetic, professional name and any layman will realize what happens during the race. I fishy that this is due to the complexes of football players – possibly the reason is that most commentators are erstwhile footballers, whose individual sports editorials have hired as alleged experts. The football player wasn't talking, so it's what it is. That would be actually the occupation for sociologists, due to the fact that I can only have suspicions. But it is rather crucial that all now and then 1 of the commentators reads a wise word somewhere and starts pushing it into all statement.
And so at all game, I hear the players anticipate the ball flight. 10 times a game, anyway. Others, not wanting to be inferior, immediately catch the “wise” phrase, and all erstwhile in a while I have Kowalski predicting the passing of Nowak. After a while everyone knows the word, so another 1 reads fresh and fresh idiocy emerges – late it is “holistic”. We have holistic preparation of the player, holistic game technique, holistic game plan... I've come to a beautiful sad conclusion lately. erstwhile I was younger, belonging to the alleged intelligence, however, it required something. The intelligent must have been well-read, had general cognition of the world, and had to usage correct Polish. Right now, I'm surrounded by idiots with PhDs. I know professors – untrained bastards – and education has nothing to do with intelligence... I think I'm getting old. Sincerely and cordial greetings to the full editorial board of my favourite periodical
EWA HORDINiak, Gliwice
‘Seniors behind the wheel’
A tail?
Since I am already a elder (79 years) behind the wheel, I have decided to share with readers a fewer comments referring to the text by Mr Marcin Wójcik, “Seniors behind the wheel” in “Angora” No. 15.
For any time now, the mass media has stressed the age of the driver of the vehicle during a traffic accident caused by it. If it is an aged person, the rapporteurs, and especially witnesses, frequently stress that in order to be able to drive a car, specified persons should be directed towards specialised studies. On this occasion, 1 forgets about riders, cyclists or pedestrians who own their years. Well, that's fine.
As far as I'm concerned, this year I scored a million-mile drive without an accident (knock on the woodwork!). But let's go back to the old ladies behind the wheel. Examples from the last period. In the summertime of 2024 I pulled off the S3 way by one-way to Świebodzin. Suddenly, from behind the embankment, the car left and headed towards me, which is against the current. I flashed the lights and stopped on the side of the road. He, a young boy, besides realized that he had entered badly, and he had difficulty turning back.
Recently in Zielona Góra, returning from the city, I approached a roundabout in front of Kisielin, where I usually turn right on the estate. The Rondo was empty. Suddenly, I saw a young female coming up from the side of the property and, alternatively of going around the right side, she was packing a shortcut to the left and right at me. But... she ran over. In 2024, following the S3 way from Goleniów towards Wolin, I saw motorcyclists approaching behind at tremendous speed. There were quite a few cars going due to the fact that it was just a change of turnus by the sea. And all of a sudden, we were overtaken by a twelve machines with a roar of engines. On the left, on the right, on the emergency lane and the mediate between the cars. In a twelve minutes, we stopped stressed at a restaurant in Przybranow. The bikers were already there. Just young boys, no grandpa!
You could inactive multiply examples. And to sum up, I think that in our beloved country, slowly, slowly, there is an attack on older people, and elder drivers are only part of it. Why does a man in his 70s even live? He takes specified queues with doctors, does not work, and inactive should be paid pensions and pensions, and he besides frequently drives a car, due to the fact that public communications are not everywhere. The PRL was much better with that. So – the grandfathers of the driver – stay healthy, don't get involved, but be very careful on the road! Oh, no, sorry, seniors are besides needed, and very much so – during the election. I'm sorry. MAREK from Zielona Góra
Why the price?
We remember celebrated PiS conferences (not to be confused with press conferences, where journalists can ask questions), at which he hid butter in the vault in a priceless box with his purely collective voice and with his appropriate charisma. He shouted at it about the raging price. I looked in the fridge panicked – I had a full-sized butter cube in my spare, but I didn't make a safe yet. There was no request for that.
Not only that the butter is expensive, but for the safe we will gotta dry any gold – I thought. Knowing the advisability of our traders, I was certain that in the nearest supermarket I could easy find a cooled safe. possibly even the safes will stand? Once, erstwhile meat was expensive, locomotives were cheap. erstwhile I went to that large-area store, I saw that butter was cheaper than that in my fridge. But even cheaper than the 1 I bought in the days of the opposition present on December 13. By the way, I refueled the car due to the fact that the fuel was cheaper than the Bliss. So I began to wonder if I could be carried distant by opposition manipulation.
The fact that everything is more costly than before Błaszczak began to rule, does not rise doubts. Where, then, did these advanced price differences come from? So I went looking and found this data in the CSO materials. Price increases in the last decade (2015 – 2024), i.e. in times of large prosperity for the Law and Justice, amounted to 54 percent, of which 4 fifths were achieved between 2021 and 2024. At that time, the cost of housing increased by 64%, by 51% of the bills in restaurants, and by 46% of the price of food and non-alcoholic beverages.
In December 2024, on average, prices were 4.7% higher than the year before, and this was the best yearly consequence since 2020. And that everything seems expensive? Yes, advanced inflation during the times of Morawiecki's and the company's governments led to a crucial increase in the alleged base, the basis on which we number growth. If in 2015 something cost 100 PLN, at the end of 2024 it was already 154 PLN. Even if a given hypothetical article now will only increase by 4%, nominal growth will be over PLN 6.1. erstwhile you look at the illustration depicting price climbing, you can see the steepness even more clearly between 2021 and 2023.
It turns out that it was during the time of the minister of war – sorry, disarming – Błaszczak and his companions that this destiny was prepared for us. After the analysis of the GUS data, I greased a part thicker, and I thought how badly the investment was unsuccessful The lube in the safe protecting against the mute eats butter by Tusk. And to scare the public, I think only refugees with visas purchased from his guys will stay again. ELA
You clarinet!
Once upon a time... somewhere in the early 1980s. In the 20th century, erstwhile Poles, regardless of age, education and position, had not yet expelled from themselves implanted in the process of raising at least the basic principles of the savoir-vivre, the words were used: please, thank you and excuse me, and the attention to inappropriate behaviour did not consequence in beating. Driving in a crowded Warsaw tram, I witnessed specified a scene: Between the 2 men, there was any kind of fascination. After exchanging any harsh sentences 1 of them in desperation threw towards another: YOU CLARNE! An aged man sitting close him, with an unreprovoked pre-war prowess, said, “Klarnet? It is specified a beautiful instrument!’
And that was the end of the fuss... Now, erstwhile the 2 "intelligents of Żoliborz" brought into the language of regular political debate an epithet of the type: "screw, grandfather", "twisted murder", "canals", "sadists", "murderers", their young organization educator heroically declares their willingness to push the prosecutor and is inactive very arrogant of themselves, and the political amok-infested bride of the Polish nation, pecking a finger in the speaker-standing MP, along with 50 equally powerfully stimulated organization friends and colleagues chanting in the session area the cry of "murderer!", I dream of returning the time to KLARNET being the worst invector he would usage in relation to his life opponents. MARGORATE
Magic Word – Optimization
For starters, a quote from 1 of the journals: Poland will not quit buying F-35 fighters and Abrams tanks due to the fact that it is besides late for that. The only thing we can quit is another HIMARS rocket launchers.”
Well, I don't know what it's like with these HIMARSAMs today, but I know that Korean K-239 can replace them. Later I perceive on tv that our national defence minister reportedly knew already last July about the possible relocation of allied troops in Europe. He knew, and what? What is it? O transfer.
But for me, a erstwhile soldier, that's not transfer US troops to another locations from Jasionka to another bases in Poland, Just a simple escape from Putin's long-planned impact on this place. He didn't do it due to the fact that he was busy putting Trump in office, and now that he's got him there, what's next? Is he free to check us out here in Europe? I'm afraid so.
An attack on Jasionka would be an attack on the US. That's enough. Not the U.S. anymore, but the NATO chief takes over the safety of this hub. Let me remind you that 2 weeks before Russia's attack on Ukraine, part of the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division landed in Jasionka due to the fact that they believed Putin would take Kiev in 72 hours. Well. America will no longer defend the distribution of aid Ukraine delivered by aircraft from all over the world, and the authoritative paper states about the “optimisation of military operations”. In corporate Trumpism, this means cutting costs, firing people, closing companies, selling property. U.S. military commander General Christopher Donahue himself said that “withdrawal from Jasionka means tens of millions of dollars in savings”.
Are we first on the "Trump Optimization List"? I don't know. In total, 10,000 soldiers are reportedly to be withdrawn to the United States, 1 eighth of all forces in Europe. Who, specifically what kind of troops and where are they to be withdrawn from? Putin most likely knows, and erstwhile Trump pulls them back, we'll know erstwhile Putin starts checking. Certainly, the US’s deterrent effect on Russia has clearly weakened. Trump did not impose duties on Russia, and besides took the army from Jasionka.
This looks bad, and the storytelling of politicians has always been and is simply a storytelling, which, in the face of Putin having no intention of ending war in Ukraine, is dangerous for us Poles. I do not know whether British, Norwegian, German and our soldiers are adequate for the Russians to keep their hands off this place – this is the first. And secondly, who of the politicians will now dare to land in Jasionka, control to a train and go to Kiev? Undoubtedly Putin's people will now begin to check – in explanation and practice – how this Jasionka is being watched. That's alternatively certain, due to the fact that I answer to the question of a possible war: No, or, but when, due to the fact that individual will not last. The reality is that political lunatics are coming, not falling. TERMINATOR
Free America and the Voice of Europe
It just so happens that the Kremlin crew is constantly walking drunk. And not due to the fact that they have become alcoholic, but simply due to the fact that they gotta drink. Since the American election won Trump, there are inactive opportunities to open another bottle of champagne. I guess they don't drink anything there, like pheasantsBut the best French champagne, due to the fact that the opportunities are incredible. They're even amazed to see D.T. coming to their advantage. Not just them. The last chance to toast was Trump's suspension of the backing of the radio station: Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. On this occasion, the carrot president declared that these proclamations are preachers of leftist content and do not reflect the actual spirit of America. America, of which he is an indivisible ruler, and at the same time a immense hiding place of wisdom. The closure of RWE and GA is an chance to celebrate not only in the Kremlin.
There are many countries in the planet whose voice of free media has not been at hand. That I will mention at least the nearest murderer Lukashenko, who has locked the opposition in prisons and their destiny is not known by the media. With glasses of champagne, they most likely welcomed Trump's decision besides to the leaders of China, Iran, Turkmenistan and another regimes that I would name these most celebrated countries. It so happens that the decision to suspend VOA and RFE backing was announced shortly after planet Radio Day (13 February). A worse “present” to radio hosts the White home could not do.
I started my adventure with the radio with a “coach” hanging in the kitchen. Not many people know what it was today. It's a wired radiophone that the folk government gave us in the 1950s and 1960s to carry the kagans of education. Of course, socialist education. But there was besides another radio in my life – like in the lives of millions of another Poles. specified tube, with magic green eyes, in which – with a small luck and patience – you could perceive to Free Europe or the Voice of America. However, this could not be listened to for a long time, for even the heavy suppressed signal faded. I remember adults talking silently: “Free Europe says there are strikes in Poznań.”
One of my uncles was a peculiar lover of RWE and he brought us the latest news from the capital. He kept saying – citing RWE – that the commune would fall. The prophecy came true, though he did not live to see it. RWE and GA was an ear to the world. Another world. I can't say I'm listening to those radios until today. Since the anticipation of freely choosing the radio, there has been no request to scope for news from overseas. However, I can imagine with what hope and trust they perceive to these radio stations in another countries. I know that today, in the age of the Internet, there are also ways of getting on with the news.
Unfortunately, it just so happens that most of these messages are complete nonsense or messages specially designed to sow misinformation. Besides, authoritarian states prohibit the usage of the network, just as we utilized to jam the RWE or GA signal. I have specified a simple conclusion. possibly now Europe will return to America for years of support in the fight against the commune and launch a channel to support America in its fight for normality, due to the fact that I am firmly convinced that this fight will take place. The voice of Europe It could be broadcast from Canada or Mexico, due to the fact that the U.S. happens to be surrounded by countries that don't think very well about them. And the Americans will shortly discover that excess solarium harms not only the skin, as previously thought, but besides badly, even destructively, affects the psyche of man. ANDRZEJ WELCOME
