We love our language

Can you think of a country where two students of law or IT discuss - over a glass of beer - the difference between two similarly sounding verbs? 

Can you imagine a country where a shop assistant will correct your pronunciation? 

Can you imagine a country where every Friday on TV a program about grammar and spelling is almost as popular as a comedy show (even though it is not funny at all)?

A country where at the same public TV two families compete to win a title of grammar experts?

A country where every year a orthography contest is organised and all celebrities and politicians are happy to take part?

A country where the host of mentioned Friday's show is a celebrity - linguistic celebrity?

Yes - this is Poland. 

We love our language, we love our word formation which gives us: "kancelować", "bookować",

"topupować" even though you will not find it in any dictionary. 

We love the flexibility of the word order in sentences, which gives us the best poets in the entire world and we finally love how a little change in words changes the meanings of these words.

Finally we love how many meanings can hide in prefixes and suffixed of words. Is there any other language where adding different endings to a swear word you can form a sentence: "Wow, that was an excellent party"?

See you in class,

Ola