Showing posts with label romanian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romanian. Show all posts
Friday, November 01, 2013

A 100 year old mirror

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Recently, I started reading what seems to be widely regarded as "The Great Transylvanian Novel", which is Miklos Banffy 's ...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Notes from the new front line

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The flag debate drags on and on and ... Political capital is made by both sides in perpetuating it. Easy to whip Romanians into a fury ov...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Greet Expectations

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that there are very few places in the world where the act of greeting someone on the stre...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Words don't come easy

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When Bill Bryson moved back to the US (to live not far up the road from me, in fact) he wrote a book of his experiences as a long time expat...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Language by committee

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Romania, in common with many European countries, has some form of national academy which decides on how the Romanian language should develop...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Irredentist

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Today’s word of the day is Irredentist. It has absolutely nothing to do with the person who fixes your teeth. ir•re•den•tist n. One who ad...
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Monday, October 02, 2006

Sütő András

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Sütő András has died. He was, until last night, one of the most famous living Transylvanian Hungarians. To Hungarians he is a great playwr...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Iskola (2)

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The mayor of Csikszereda, one Raduly Robert, is basically a cretin. His name is more or less a joke in the town, and I've yet to meet a...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

More on anti-Romanian bigotry

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Just as an addendum to yesterday's news, after I wrote it I went out and saw the headline on the Daily Express which was something along...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Poles Apart

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Quite interesting being in the UK at the moment. Yesterday the government announced figures for the number of Eastern Europeans who have co...
Saturday, August 05, 2006

Romanians in Spain

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There are a lot of Romanians in Spain. A recent survey into Spanish immigration found that something close to 400,000 Romanians live here (...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Romanian Accent

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Romanians are very cavalier with their accents. By accents here, I mean not regionally diverse ways of speaking, but diacritical marks on l...
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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Low cost Romania

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While wandering round the 'net today I came across this article on the uninteresting topic of Renault's sales in Europe. What caug...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Who are Romanians and what do they believe?

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"Romanians believe they show less positive personality traits than the “European person”. They even admit having outright negative trai...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Felsziget

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Every summer, Budapest hosts a music festival on an island in the Danube. It’s called the Sziget (island) Festival, and is clearly a fairly...
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