One of the interesting things about traveling is that around the globe, different people have different slang abbreviations for McDonald’s, the multinational fast food empire. I know a lot of people are familiar with calling the outlets “Mickey D’s” in the United but did you know that in Australia it’s called Macca’s? Or that in Japan they call it “Makku”? Well in Romania, it’s called … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Mec
For Engrish Speakers: Am slefuit suprafetele jhgeaburilor. O sa gasesc un caine maine cu paine. Imbunatateste-te! Pentru Vorbitori: I won one on the fun bus. The happy hippy had a funny fanny. Prin vulturi vantul viu vuia. Continue reading Tongue Twister Thursday!
If you’ve been reading my blog since April, you know I’ve been displaying a badge for Let’s Do It Romania in the sidebar, an advertisement for a nationwide event which will take place this Saturday. Simply put, it’s going to be a single day in which close to 60,000 volunteers are going to pick up trash to help clean up the country. Sounds good, right? … Continue reading Zoso Vs. Let’s Do It Romania
Ok who likes pickles? Yum, I sure do! Although nothing can top a Romanian grandmother’s jar of homemade pickles, carefully stored down in her root cellar for months, it’s actually rather easy to make your own incredibly delicious pickles at home. Although this recipe is variable and can be used to pickle almost any vegetable, today we’ll talk about pickling cucumbers specifically, known in Romanian … Continue reading Pickles!!!
Probably one of the most common slang words used in Romania today, smecherie (shmeck-air-ee-eh) is simply put, the art of being a smecher (shmeck-air). Yet if you plug the word into a dictionary, what you get is “sly boots” or a “cunning person”. Close but not exactly right. The noun smecherie comes from the German word “Schmecker”, which just means someone who is employed as … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Smecherie
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