As you (probably) know, I like to keep an eye on the wire to see what pops up. Just a few hours ago, CNN started running a piece on one of Dracula’s real castles in Romania. I assume this is “for” Halloween but it’s filed by Adam Cooper, so I wonder if he truly did come here. The article is a puff piece but there … Continue reading CNN and a PCV
I guess the relatively “good” news here is that there are only a few ways to say “please” and “thank you” in Romanian. We’ll start with “thank you” first. The first way to say this is the easiest and the one I tell every foreigner I meet to use. You just say mersi (mare-SEA), quite similar to the original French “merci”. Couldn’t be easier. The … Continue reading I Am Thankful To Pray Of You
As I go about my daily life, I’m always on the lookout for things connected to Romanian grammar, especially those I can whittle down into bite-sized chunks to feed into good blog post. The other day I was down at the veterinarian’s office with the cats (they’re fine – just fat) and there was a brochure lying around from a multinational pharmaceutical corporation promoting one … Continue reading Your Ladyship’s Dog’s Life’s Quality’s Improvement Is The First Step
You know, I’ve been hanging onto this photograph since summer, as it was taken during the medieval festival we went to in Sighisoara. Long story short, on the day that Vlad “The Impaler” Tepes was born, his father was having some political trouble and so his family had removed to one of their “out of the way” manors, this one inside the medieval walls of … Continue reading Friday Night Thoughts About Vlad “Dracula”, His House and Who Might Be The Real Villain Here
Do you remember those three words which meant “cool” in Romanian, especially the word tare? If you do, you remember that the root meaning of the original word is “strong” or “heavy” or “tough” and the like. Today’s word is: vagány. Hopa! This is an entirely Hungarian word and never used in Romanian. I went down from my kingdom and visited a Hungarian friend of … Continue reading Word of the Day: Vagány
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