Łacina po polsku, czyli glosa o niefortunnej hybrydzie warunek sine qua non

Abstract

This draft is dedicated to the warunek sine qua non expression, which is pervasive in modern Polish language (both in scientific and sensu largo journalistic sources). The draft’s author explains in detail the mechanism of error of this popular lingual hybrid and reflects on the causes for the several decade-long popularity of this structure, notabene sanctionaed in normative linguistic compendiums, as well as numerous lexicons and dictionaries. The issue of this unfortunate error in this case has been silhouetted against the issue of awareness on proper and subtle use of Latin expressions, phrases, and idioms in scientific dissertations and media publications. This issue is extremely important in modern culture and fades in a terrifyingly fast manner.