Poland runoff: last polls and results

[minionofmidas]

Here you go. Quite an interesting map, don't you think?

Looks like a pre-WWII map.  Were the settlers in the west mainly those displaced from the east, with those in the center staying in place?

Does 'Niemcy' have cognates in other languages?

Yes...although it's a bit more complex as there's probably some people from the East elsewhere too, and there's areas where the original Westerners stayed. (The definitions of "German" and "Pole" were never all that clearcut in parts of Silesia. The Poles and Mazurs of Southern East Prussia also stayed. etc.)
Niemcy = German has cognates all over the Slavic languages. It translates literally as "unable to speak the language; mute". It was also borrowed into Hungarian.

[minionofmidas]

Was there any real leftist candidates in the first round? Pretty crappy that we'd end up with Cosmo Kramer clone vs. DanielX clone which is what I understand them as.

Not quite as bad perhaps.

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Ah, Paulina...never got into her panties...

[M]

Was there any real leftist candidates in the first round? Pretty crappy that we'd end up with Cosmo Kramer clone vs. DanielX clone which is what I understand them as.

Not quite as bad perhaps.

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Ah, Paulina...never got into her panties...

For which I must profusely apologize.

[ag]

Does 'Niemcy' have cognates in other languages?

Nemec/Niemec/Nimec etc. (Niemcy is plural) are standad names for Germans in many Slavic languages. Literally, means "barbarian" or "speechless one" ("nemoj" is Russian for "unable to speak, mute")  - clearly, Slavs had a certain view of the German language. Still, it has long lost its derogatory connotation, and is just the only word available. "Nemec" is the standard word for "German" (as an ethnic or national designation) in Russian, "Nimec" - in Ukrainian.  Actually, "Germany" in Ukrainian will be "Nimetchina" (though still "Germania" in Russian).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's interesting how often words to describe people living next door (so to speak) used to have a derogatory meaning actually...

[minionofmidas]

No, M, that's not your fault.