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[–] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh damn, just as I'm preparing for my Polish exam in two weeks!

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Good. Any language should do it every 100-200 years. Yes, English, you too. And your reformation is long overdued.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Swedish has done this. The result is that their orthography is a lot more straightforward, but Swedish texts from >100 years ago are harder to read.

    Having said this, given recent cultural and commercial connections between Poland and the English-speaking world, one would expect English conventions to seep in, and this looks more like a descriptivist adjustment than anything else (right down to the conservatives having kittens about it)

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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Summary: It's all changes in capitalisation and writing things together or as two words.

    Demonyms referring to people from cities or districts should now be spelt with a capital letter, as those referring to nationalities already are – e.g. “Krakowianin” (Cracovian)

    Either lower case or upper case may be used for what the RJP calls “unofficial ethnic names” (some of which are used pejoratively), such as “Angol”/“angol” to refer to an Englishman (who should properly be called “Anglik”) or “Żabojad”/“żabojad” (literally “frog-eater”) for a Frenchman (who should properly be called “Francuz”)

    Brand names should be spelt with a capital letter also when referring to an individual specimen, e.g. “Zaparkował czerwony Ford” (“He parked a red Ford”)

    The prefix “pół-” (semi-) should be combined with the rest of the word in compounds like “półżartem” (half-joking)

    The prefix “nie-” (un-, non-, not) should always be combined with adjectives and adverbs, regardless of semantic interpretation – previously writers could opt to write the words separately based on the specific meaning

    Greater use of capital letters:

    in proper nouns denoting geographical names like parks, churches, estates, castles, bridges, squares, avenues, etc. – the exception being the word “ulica” (street), which remains lower case. For example: ulica Józefa Piłsudskiego, Aleja Róż, Brama Warszawska, Plac Zbawiciela, Park Kościuszki

    In the names of prizes, e.g. “Nagroda Nobla” (Nobel Prize)

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