It’s no surprise that Romanians eat a lot of meat (especially pork!) and thus have a lot of slang expressions and euphemisms based on the word carne (meat). One interesting one is în carne și oase, which literally translates to “in meat and bones”. But what does it mean? It’s exactly equivalent to the English expression “flesh and blood”, as in meeting someone in person … Continue reading Expression of the Day: În carne și oase
As you might notice, I’m messing around with the graphics and the layouts here, trying to update the blog to a more professional look. Right now, I’m extremely busy trying to do about 500 things all at once so forgive me for the lighter posting here in the near future. My plan right now is to entirely re-do the background template on Saturday. And in … Continue reading My apologies, folks
Oh my goodness… well if you speak Romanian, you can read an interview I did with a very nice man from Impact News here. It’s an extremely lengthy interview so I don’t think I’ll be translating it in its entirety into English. I did want to see if Google Translate could do the job adequately and… well just click on the link to see the … Continue reading Arieşeni the Stone Country
If you speak any kind of Latin-based language, it’s pretty easy to recognize the Romanian word plaja to mean “beach”, as in the sandy strip of shoreline next to a body of water such as an ocean. But what is face plaja or “to do the beach”? In Romanian this is a very common expression and all it means is to “tan oneself” or “lay … Continue reading Expression of the Day: Face Plaja
Ah yes, I see that several new people have been coming to the blog. If that’s you, welcome aboard! There are over 400 articles on this website, some of them very awesome and enlightening and hilarious and the rest… well you’ll see ;) For those of you who have been around a while, you’ll note that there is a new graphic in the title bar. … Continue reading Whew…
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