The Situation Today
Some speakers in the area today speak a language known as po prostu, and they consider this language to be purely Polish. Colloquial Polish in Lithuania includes dialectic qualities and is influenced by other languages. Educated Poles speak a language close to standard Polish. Northern-kresowy dialect of Polish is also spoken
Read more about this topic: Ethnic History Of The Vilnius Region
Famous quotes containing the words situation and/or today:
“There had been no thievery or venality. We had all simply wandered into a situation unthinkingly, trying to protect ourselves from what we saw as a political problem. Now, suddenly, it was like a Rorschach ink blot: others, looking at our actions, pointed out a pattern that we ourselves had not seen.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1994)
“Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)