Just about every week someone new asks me to justify why I live in Romania. I guess I should start a new category of posts just to list all of these answers, which are far too numerous to fit into a single article. One of the simplest reasons is cash money, (pronounced kish by most Romanians). From the first day I got here right up … Continue reading After The Flood Had Swept Over, The Kingship Was In Kish
If you haven’t taken the Pop Quiz already, then go ahead and do so before reading further because what follows are the ANSWERS. Yay! Three cheers for answers. Ready? If you’re a highly educated person you probably missed that I mischievously put an “extra” question on the test. I deliberately embed all kinds of textual “Easter eggs” in just about everything I write, mostly to … Continue reading E4R: Answers to Pop Quiz #1
You might remember I wrote a nifty little post about promoting fear in the press a short while back. Well lately the British media has been in full force, scaring their readers about dem ole sneaky snake Romanians (don’t you know they’re from Eastern Europe? Run for your lives!) Here’s one from the “Daily Mail”, a rather sleazy gossip newspaper, with a piece about how … Continue reading (Romanian) Criminal Minds
All of the following are real sentences that I’ve heard spoken with my own ears. Your job is to correctly guess the “school book” or standardized translation. Good luck! 1) Yesterday I went at the mall a) Yesterday I physically attacked the mall b) Yesterday I began to yell at the mall c) Yesterday I went to the mall d) Yesterday I began to argue … Continue reading E4R: Pop Quiz!
I came across this news that Cristian Sporis was named Deputy Finance Minister for the state treasury and noted that it was a remarkably unremarkable piece of news. Ho hum, another banker being appointed to help run a country’s finances, a move quite common everywhere from Italy to Greece to the United States and beyond. But it got me to thinking about banking in general. … Continue reading Highway to Hell
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