Oh mercy, this just made me laugh (bold portions are my edit): What did I think of Romania? Well….. Hardly any English spoken at all, the people were quite rude, a lot of the people we tried to stop in the streets to ask questions to either ignored us [LOL! my favorite part], or got angry with us, or didn’t understand us so hence got … Continue reading Personal Blog Entry Found Online
Probably one of my all-time vegetables to eat in Romania is varza, known in English by its less mellifluous name of “cabbage”. That being said, the word “varza” has a variety of slang usages, to wit: A (se) face (sau a ajunge, a fi etc.) varză = a (se) distruge, a (se) degrada, a (se) zdrențui Parsing this out it means something like “worn out” … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Varza
Following my post on plural words and my introduction to noun cases it’s now time to address the third component: the definite article. In English, this is always super simple, being the use of the word the. Whether it’s the book or the books, in English it’s always the same – just add the word “the” in front of the words (or clause) and you’re … Continue reading The Definite Article in Romanian
I’m filing this under “blog бизнес” because I want to remind myself to finish up a piece I’ve been working on, a one-page survival guide to this country. Obviously my entire blog (almost) is a tour slash survival guide but I wanted to get the most essential basics down in one place in a short format. Other than that, the rest of this post will … Continue reading Murder Most Fowl
From here, which is mostly a review of a Romanian movie, comes this anecdote from Lea Lane, an American who brags about being a travel writer for over 30 years. This is yet another example of the kind of thing I’m talking about when it comes to the quality of written travel guides to this country (in English). Our riverboat stops at a small Romanian … Continue reading Crappy Guides to Romania: Lea Lane
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