> >>And the arrangement of dates? Don't even get me started...Where's the > >>logic of having "month, day, year" sequence??? > > > >Only the U.S. does that, the rest of us do day, month, year. > > I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the > custom (along with many others).
Not that I know of. > When I was growing up, the dates were > not only written in the "day, month, year" sequence (the logical > progression from the smallest to the largest unit), but the month was > written in Roman numerals, just to make everything perfectly clear. So, > today, would have been: 28.V.04. This was still the usual version when I left, although the all-Arabic one was also used, especially on official forms that look like they might be computer-read or just have fields specified as DDMMYY. > Sometime after I left, the month began to be written in Arabic > numerals. I expect, with the school week being reduced from 6 days to > 5, there was't enough time to teach kids Roman numerals <g> When was the school week 6 days?? We had Roman numerals in primary school though. In fact from what I can tell from my younger cousins, we're still not aping the American school system - there's more and more stuff to learn and it starts earlier and earlier. One of my cousins had astronomy in 3rd or 4th grade! > Works both ways... :) The commonly used (in Poland) word for "email" is > "emalia". Which, in Polish, *means* "enamel", but sounds somewhat > similiar to the original English. My mother sometimes says "emalia", but most people my age just say "email" like in English. Same for many other English words, especially the computer-related ones. I wonder whether they'll ever evolve Polish versions, or just stay like this. I've seen a GREAT list of Polish synonyms proposed by various people, but I doubt it'll catch on, which is a pity - you can do amazing things with the Polish language if you try. Weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
