I'm sorry that some of my thoughts were based exclusively on
practical observation and looked like politically incorrect. Indeed I
really didn't mean to offend anyone. When asking Piotr about the
people of Polish decent in the South-Eastern Lithuania, I was hoping
he has devoted some time in the past to phonologically analyze the
language spoken in the region (I wondered if the language could be
really called Polish, with no offence intended; from what I've
practically heard - I'm incompetent in theory: that's why I'm
participating in this interesting list - it could not). As to the
depalatalized dental stops in Russian, I thank Sergey that he didn't
limit himself with justly criticizing my poor choice of terms
(inevitable due to my incompetency) and provided some very valuable
information about the subject (something I actually aimed at by
writing the initial message, unfortunately, with some bad
connotations that should've been avoided). Thanks again and I'll
proof-read my messages in the future.

Juozas Rimas