Yesterday after going half-blind reading (and translating) all those Wikileaks cables, I realized there was heavy use of the word “interlocutor”. I for one was more familiar with its grammatical meaning but in the terms of these cables, it means something else: An interlocutor is someone who informally explains the views of a government and also can relay messages back to a government. Because an … Continue reading Interlocutors Eat Cheese
Holy moley guacamole! Somehow the website HotNews.ro got ahold of some new Wikileaks documents concerning Romania and there are some doozies in there. First, however, a note of caution. I’ve searched through all of the public databases on released Wikileaks documents and not seen any of the ones mentioned by HotNews. I’ve also searched through other Romanian media and it seems that HotNews is the … Continue reading Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!
Many, many moons ago, some American friends of mine flew into Budapest, Hungary where I met them for a brief tour before we all went to Romania. My friends did not speak a single word of the Hungarian language but nonetheless did comprehend the word telefon written on a billboard. It’s the same word in nearly every language because it comes from the American English … Continue reading An Apparatus For Signaling by Musical Notes
Yesterday the sun was shining and there was a fresh breeze in the air. The Woman and I took a nice long walk through some green spaces here in the magical metropolis of Cluj-Napoca, both of us engaged in my secret plan to plant thousands of sunflowers. We saw a pair of the most lovely, delicate butterflies flitting about. We saw the first ants of … Continue reading The Official Start of Tourism Season in Romania
is busuioc (especially when the computer does it! hee hee!) AND NOW YOU KNOW! Continue reading The Most Fun Word To Say In The Romanian Language
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