Are there any regions in Polska today, which still speak with the pre-war accent?

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Edited by: Moderator Sep 18, 11, 01:07 #1

Are there any regions in Polska today, which still speak with the pre-war accent?

I simply adore it.. especially in songs sung by Eugeniusz Bodo and Mieczysław Fogg, for instance. It was obviously influenced strongly by Russian, but sounded soo much more pleasant than today's Polish. :P

My mother was taught to speak it that way by her Belorussian mother back when was younger and living in Zabłudów, but she unfortunately adapted the modern accent upon moving to Gdańsk in the 80's, before she had us. :(

pawianThreads: 90 Posts: 5,395 Joined: May 30, 08 ♂	Sep 18, 11, 01:15 #2
=ShAlEyNsTfOh]Are there any regions in Polska today, which still speak with the pre-war accent? Hmm, maybe some primitive Polish tribes hidden in Białowieska Jungle Forest, without access to the radio and TV, still keep old traditions.... ):):):) Seriously, I don`t think so.

ShAlEyNsTfOhThreads: 8 Posts: 232 Joined: Feb 5, 11 ♂ [Suspended]	Sep 18, 11, 01:20 #3
lol funny... NOT. and why change the title, mods? this was strictly out of sheer curiosity =P

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Sep 18, 11, 01:21 #4

It's very, very, very rare. But in my region (North-East, Suwalszczyzna) some older people use something which could be called in the past "artistic language". They don't use normal "ł" like in modern language but they use something between "l" and "ł". But it is probably the only thing that has been left from pre-war times. My grandma used it for her whole life and she died just 2 years ago. She was taught this way, but she was 89 years old, so when modern times came, she was already a very mature woman. You can mostly hear this from people who are in their 80s now and were living in Suwalszczyzna or Podlasie for their whole life.

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Sep 18, 11, 01:25 #5

It's very, very, very rare. But in my region (North-East, Suwalszczyzna) some older people use something which could be called in the past "artistic language". They don't use normal "ł" like in modern language but they use something between "l" and "ł". But it is probably the only thing that has been left from pre-war times. My grandma used it for her whole life and she died just 2 years ago. She was taught this way, but she was 89 years old, so when modern times came, she was already a very mature woman. You can mostly hear this from people who are in their 80s now and were living in Suwalszczyzna or Podlasie for their whole life.

you know, I'm actually curious as to which point of time following the war, did the accent actually change, or start changing, and how it became nation-spread.

I mean, with the pronunciation of hard/soft ł, and letter 'y' from yj/i in words. Also, they used to pronounce 'cz' as 'sz' in many words, primarily in cases where cz was proceeded by 'ł'.

VincentThreads: 15 Posts: 1,706 Joined: Sep 9, 07 ♂ [Moderator]	Edited by: Vincent Sep 18, 11, 01:33 #6
and why change the title, mods? Think yourself lucky that the thread didn't go straight to the bin. Two things that you should know about creating threads.. 1. here and 2.rule #10 http://www.polishforums.com/rules-privacy-tos/

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Sep 18, 11, 01:40 #7

you know, I'm actually curious as to which point of time following the war, did the accent actually change, or start changing, and how it became nation-spread.

It's very hard to say, but I think this could change right after WWII. My parents were born in 1960 and 1959 respectivelly and I am pretty sure they were taught modern Polish (of course not as modern as now) since they were in primary school. I will visit them tommorow, so if I don't forget, I will ask them :)