Happy Easter
Well for those of you who are Orthodox believers, I wish you a Happy Easter! Now please don’t eat too much even though yes, I know, Grandma is pushing you to have another bite :) Continue reading Happy Easter
Author: Sam Cel Roman
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It Rhymes With Forint
Well I’m having a devil of a time finding a place to host my little compendium of TV clips that show Romanians. YouTube is insistent on blocking 90% of what I’m doing due to so-called “copyright violations” (to me a short clip with attribution is hardly stealing, not to mention I’m not trying to sell or profit off of this in any way) and Trilulilu, … Continue reading It Rhymes With Forint
Yea or Nay?
Well I see that once again it’s time for TEDxCluj. You might remember my piece on this last year as well as my follow-up here. I never did quite get any answers to my questions, only snobby attitudes and stupidity. Well here is the line-up for this year’s event. If you’re Romanian you probably know who Mihaela Radulescu is and her current husband, who assures … Continue reading Yea or Nay?
WOTD: Imbulzeala
I had to laugh because although I just formally learned the word imbulzeala (em-boolzy-ala) the other day, visitors and foreign residents in Romania have been asking me about the phenomenon for years. This is a classic Romanian word, constructed from a root word bulz, which means something like “clot” or “clump” or “clod”. As DEX helpfully informs us, when your mamaliga gels into a little … Continue reading WOTD: Imbulzeala
The Ballad of Cupru Min
Well as I’ve written about before, the Pig Man and the Daddy Isarescu had big plans for Romania in 2012 with the first step to be selling off equity shares (or the entire company) of some of the last of this country’s state-owned firms. The first one on the block was Cupru Min (literally “Copper Mining”), a company that has rights to several large copper … Continue reading The Ballad of Cupru Min
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