Żyć trzeba, czyli jak mieszkańcy miast radzili sobie w realiach PRL
One Has to Live, or How the Town Population Coped in the Reality of People’s Poland

Summary/Abstract: This time, the authors of Prywatny leksykon współcze- snej polszczyzny (in 2010 their files totalled about 13 mlncharacters) chose from their archive alinguistic phenomenon illustrating the daily concern of town inhabitants with all sorts of material aspects (in the countryside the situation was slightly different, and thus the vocabulary varied). The mass media spoke alanguage of their own, as did the people, but for obvious reasons both sides maintained mutual rela- tions; this is the reason why the authors cite the lan- guage of the street, private conversations and the press of the period. They present examples of avo- cabulary concentrated on the household, money, prices, bribes, rationing, dollars and foreign curren- cy tokens.

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