Search for: [Abstract = "This article discusses Polish\-Latin bilingualism as a distinctive feature of the nobility \(also known as \"the Sarmatians\"\). Sarmatism is characterized by the type of communication that is marked by deeply assimilated Latin or so\-called \"macaronic speech\". The tendency towards macaronisation is seen as an exponent of the aesthetic Sarmatian erudition rather than as a symptom of the degeneration of the Polish language during the Saxon times."]