moralność Kalego
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== Polish ==
=== Etymology ===
Literally, “Kali's morality”. From Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel In Desert and Wilderness, in which one of the characters, named Kali, presents, in broken Polish, his way of perceiving actions as moral or immoral, giving the example of stealing a cow: “If somebody takes Kali's cow [...], it's a bad deed [...]. If Kali takes somebody's cow, it's a good deed” (Jeśli ktoś Kalemu zabrać krowy, [...] to jest zły uczynek. [...] Dobry, to jak Kali zabrać komu krowy).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /mɔˈral.nɔɕt͡ɕ kaˈlɛ.ɡɔ/
Syllabification: mo‧ral‧ność Ka‧le‧go
=== Noun ===
moralność Kalego f
(derogatory, idiomatic, literary) double standard (way of judging the same behavior as good when the speaker does it but as bad when the perpetrator is someone else)
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
“moralność Kalego”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
“moralność Kalego”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)