More precisely the rank structure of Poland derived from both Russian and Austro-Hungarian army, with the latter prevailing I think. Also the rank of chorąży derived from the Austro-Hungarian army rather than the Russian army, being actually an alloy of two ranks: Offiziersstrllvertreter and Fähnric...

OK, let me be the first...

Merry Christmas & Joy and blessings in the New Year 2007 to all the forumers!!!

Lukasz

Najlepsze życzenia również ode mnie :-D

Łukasz

One peculiarity about addressing military in Polish is using core names only, without any prefixes or suffixes, which can be upgrading or downgrading, depending on the rank. Thus addressing a 2nd lieutenant or a lieutenant colonel you will always say Panie Poruczniku or Panie Pulkowniku (never Panie...

Ilek is right saying that when Zamehof (he lived in my city - Lodz) was creating his language, Polish armed forces did not exist. Still Polish rank names existed, preserved from the pre-paritional period, the Napoleonic pariod and the army of the Kingdom of Poland until 1831. On the other hand I am ...

Inspired by the discusion and suggestion to translate rank names to Esperanto ([url]http://forum.rankinsignia.info/viewtopic.php?t=2353[/url]), I spent some time on the Net browsing military terms in this laguage. I found some rank names, but not many. It is parhaps because Esperanto is supposed to ...