The other night at the book party a couple of people I’ve written about many times on this website attended and it was great catching up with them. One of them used a word I knew quite well but had forgotten about: mess. It’s a local short form of the longer “Yahoo Messenger”, the instant messaging program, although sometimes Romanians just call any IM program … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Mess
The other day I was riding a bus in Cluj through a specific neighborhood when I saw something that brought a smile to my eyes. Right there on B-dul Titulescu is a large sign for a small hardware store that sells tools and drills and those kinds of things. And through a slightly odd series of events, it was I myself who hung up that … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Profi
Sooner or later in Romania, someone is going to mention the concept of PCR (pay-chay-ray). But what is it? And what do those initials stand for? Actually they can stand for a lot of things, including Partidul Communist Roman or the Communist Party of Romania (of which I am the sole remaining official member). In the current sense however, what PCR stands for is Pile, … Continue reading PCR
A few days ago, I wrote a post with a link to the old BUG Mafia song “Cine E Cu Noi” which I believe was released in 1999. That song holds a particularly special place in my heart because it was still quite popular in early 2000 when I first came to Romania and I heard it hundreds, if not thousands, of times. I went … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Gabor
Hopefully by now you know that măr (mur) means “apple”, from the Latin. However there’s an interesting expression using this word, a bate măr pe cineva, literally “to beat someone apple” means to issue a severe beat down on someone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO1NJyo2AqE You can hear Guta issue this phrase around minute 2:00 where he says (of Stefan cel Mare), a batut măr pe tatari, meaning he … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Măr
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