I decided to write this post to raise awareness of the reality when it comes to my bilingual songwriting, writing and speaking. I will be honest with you and admit a few facts that may not be obvious to you, but are worth explaining. These are 5 disclaimers about my Slavic bilingualism I want to share:
1. Slavic bilingualism means that my heart is, and will be Polish 4ever
I am Slavic, which translates to ‘Słow-.-ianka’ in Polish: literally, the one who weaves words. And that is why, as a Singing Witch of Words, I will never abandon my original linguistic code. My heart and my mind think and feel in my native language, and I guess that will never change. Especially once I add a few details that make my native language the unquestionable no. 1 for a poet & lyricist.
2. The complexity & depth of Polish language is unimaginable
In comparison with English, Polish is unbelievably complex. In Poland, we have something like pshypatkey which make same words sound different depending on the sentence context, creating a lot more rhyming possibilities. You can check what it sounds like in any fancy reel by a Polish language teacher. They love to put this linguistic bomb online, because for people from other countries it’s like a whole different universe.
Pshypatkey are also the reason why our flexible syntax gives us the rare ability to create multi-layered, long sentences that still sound good and make sense, even when they stretch to more than 10 lines… In English, you call them ‘run-on sentences.’ In Polish? The longer the sentence while still making sense, the higher the writing skills it proves.
This is the core of my Slavic bilingualism: my mind operate in multi-layered, non-linear structures that standard English simply wasn’t engineered to hold. Just listen to this rap VERSE by Oskar from PRO8L3M – who probably has his Mercury in Virgo – that makes even me a little bit jealous of his skills.
3. Polish is a top-performing language for complex AI tasks. For a reason.
Researchers from the University of Maryland, Microsoft, and UMass Amherst created the ONERULER benchmark to test how major AI models (such as OpenAI, Google Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, and Qwen) handle complex, long-context tasks across 26 different languages.
According to this study, Polish achieved the highest average accuracy (≈ 88 %) on the most complex tasks. I dived into the methodology of this research, and I think that its’ outcome would show even higher accuracy of my language, if they chose to collaborate not with “6 native speakers of the language”, but a true word-weaver / Witch of Words like me.
Because I am AGAINST AI development, I consciously rejected “wonderful career opportunities” of training AI in my native language. I know there are people who do it only for the attractive money and working conditions AI companies offer, but with no linguistic, writing and poetic passion I hold.
And to be honest, I am DELIGHTED by that fact. I already see it’s “effect” in AI-generated Polish text, and more, and I LOVE the fact that AI cannot replace a good Polish writer and exposes liars who only pretend they can write.
4. English is not logical to a Slavic soul like mine
English is much simpler than Polish – and for me, it’s definitely too simple to describe everything I would like to in the witchy way I’m used to. I feel like I cannot pack everything I want into a proper English sentence the way I can in Polish. The tension inside Slavic bilingualism is simple: what feels naturally poetic and instinctual to me sounds ‘grammatically incorrect’ under rigid English rules.
- I can’t get the logic of English sentences. To me, it’s not logical at all. For instance, I cannot understand why standard English doesn’t accept double negatives – unlike in ‘We don’t need no education’ by Pink Floyd or ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’ by The Rolling Stones. It feels so natural that even native speakers chose to use these ‘wrong’ phrasings. In Polish, we use them on a daily basis.
- Another thing that melts my Slavic brain is how English handles hypothetical questions. In Polish, we have a beautiful, double conditional marker which creates a perfect atmosphere of speculation. English completely lacks this. You cannot double the ‘would’. Instead, you are forced to use a boring past tense for the condition. To me, it strips the imagination right out of the sentence.
5. I can make some Ponglish & Songlish
When I write in English or speak that language, I don’t do it 100% ‘properly’. I tend to choose weird phrasing, sound overly dramatic or use the double negatives and hypothetical markers mentioned above that might hurt your eyes or ears. Sorry for doing that, but that’s just a Slavic soul that cannot compromise.
That’s also the reason why I didn’t write English content for my former clients – I don’t feel like I have my writing skills in English on the same level as my Polish. And, to be honest, I don’t know why some people in my country think they have them, when they barely have them in Polish either. 🤫
Ok, I said sorry for the improper language, but I won’t apologize for my Songlish. Since I already mentioned native speakers breaking their own language, I think I have a perfect right to use my poetic license.
However, I NEVER use it in Polish, while many Polish artists do… Which hurts my soul, because our language is so beautiful it doesn’t really need to be butchered for the sake of a rhyme or cadence.
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