# Why only Romanian and Polish?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-romanian-and-polish/648695>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 29, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-romanian-and-polish/648695 "2013-01-29T05:42:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-romanian-and-polish/648695/21 "2013-04-02T14:49:46Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> I’m afraid that you misunderstand the true mission of the Straight Dope. The “fighting ignorance” has, since 1973, been tossed aside frequently in favor of a snarky crack or bad joke, and half-assed translations are two-fers. This site attracts wiseasses, but following Cecil for as much as forty years has made wiseasses of many of us who only tended that way before we discovered him.

I see. So you’re saying that the site has ended up converting the wiseass-curious?

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-romanian-and-polish/648695/22 "2013-04-03T01:16:30Z")

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Site? I was reading _The Straight Dope_ in the newspaper ages before Al Gore created the innertubes. But this board is like San Francisco’s Castro Street: a place where wiseasses can be ourselves.

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