To me, as a Lithuanian Pole, the shadow of historical Polonisation was always an annoying little bogeyman that they frighten a generation that had never experienced it with. But no, a lot of you really do sound like 19th century szlachta talking about "that peasant language"
Whether it's Canadian French, Welsh, Mikmaq or Occitan, you people talk about these languages like any act in their defence is a violence against you personally, the speaker of the majority language that overwhelmingly dominates your corresponding cultural elite.
So you know what, Jonas BasanaviΔius, fair play. Your extreme linguistic nationalism has a control group for what would have happened without it