This article describes the expansion of a non-honorific form of address (ty) use in Poland as a phenomenon of the democratization of language. The key element of democracy is equality, which is, according to Polish linguists, symbolized by the use of the form ty. A close distance between interlocutors is also one of the features of a democratic society, which is manifested by a simplified transition from honorific forms (pan/pani) to a non-honorific form (ty). Many conservative Polish linguists observe this trend as a negative influence of English-speaking culture and express concern about the destruction of the Polish tradition at a linguistic level. The results of a performed questionnaire survey and the analysis of comments show, however, that ordinary Polish speakers positively perceive the easy way of transitioning to the form ty. In their opinion, it allows to effectively reduce a distance between interlocutors. On the other hand, there is also a conservative approach, with speakers preferring the use of the forms pan/pani in certain situations. Roger Brown and Albert Gilman, authors of T/V theory, predicted that in many European languages the honorific forms will disappear and the non-honorific form will completely dominate in the near future, but the current situation with the Polish forms of address does not confirm this diagnosis.