Around 1995 I went on a trip to Warsaw with my school. I don’t remember anything from that trip except that some older lads brought spray paint with them, sneaked out from the place we slept and, somewhere in Warsaw, on some wall, they wrote „Rojca”. Not „Josh sux”, not „LFC”, but „Rojca”. Because those were chopcy z Rojec (lads from Rojcas) (they speak like that there: „Rojca”, but „from Rojcas” and „in Rojcas”).
That rojcan identification is somewhat like a smaller version of the Silesian regionalism and it’s there I learnt it the most, although I didn’t know it back then.
Apparently I’ve always had an ear for languages. I’m not sure how it really is with that ear but indeed I’ve always been keen on reading about languages and comparing them. A day came, though, when I realised there was a language I had never thought through. It was the closest one, that is used in Rojcas. I have to admid I speak a little different than the people there because I don’t mazurise. Somehow that mazurisation switch never switched for me. Perhaps because my family is from Bytom.
For several years I’ve been trying to join my Silesian skills with my knowledge about linguistics and programming.
Since October 2016: „Chwila z gŏdkōm”, an educational YouTube channel.