Romanian is a benediction upon this sorry dustmote shitheap of a world
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Te sun... sa t' spun... ce simt... acum
Why would you say something like that, iubirea mea? If you would only primeste fericirea...
You know, I hate to brag
, but when I heard 'primeste fericirea', there awoke within me a primordial 6th sense and I knew that 'primeste' was of Slavic origin (*prī + jьmētī) and the 'fericirea' (quite obviously) of Latin. And it shook me to the core.
Edit: Romanian is a benediction upon this sorry dustmote shitheap of a world.
You know, I hate to brag
, but when I heard 'primeste fericirea', there awoke within me a primordial 6th sense and I knew that 'primeste' was of Slavic origin (*prī + jьmētī) and the 'fericirea' (quite obviously) of Latin. And it shook me to the core.Edit: Romanian is a benediction upon this sorry dustmote shitheap of a world.
Lol because it has a good rhythm but the words are meaningless  Tongue.gif "(1) Tongue out :p")
What shook me to the very core, is when I learned that their "copil" isn't of Slavic origin, (we have that in Croatian) so naturally I thought they stole it from us. But no, it was the other way around - "copil" is apparently of daco-thracian origin, and we were the bastards who took it from them. I'm still recovering from that realisation.
What shook me to the very core, is when I learned that their "copil" isn't of Slavic origin, (we have that in Croatian) so naturally I thought they stole it from us. But no, it was the other way around - "copil" is apparently of daco-thracian origin, and we were the bastards who took it from them. I'm still recovering from that realisation.
Amen to that!!
That title made me almost spit out my drink.
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I'm lost. I gather this came from the quod/quia thread, but in splitting it something appears to have been lost, because for someone unfamiliar with the unsplit thread it's not easy to see how it ended up here.
But I admit I'm tempted to split that smiley offshoot regarding the public speakers and the objects they use whilst speaking, since to the untrained eye it would be hard to constitute a connection between smileys and what public speakers use in their hands
Seems like a promising subject, I might put in some statistic charts as well.
Seems like a promising subject, I might put in some statistic charts as well.
Rant: why do all histories of the Romanian language published in English suck?
I happen to own three of them, Du Nay (1977), Niculescu (1981) and Sala (1998), and they're all invariably bad, being far more concerned with vocabulary than grammar while omitting the Latin/Slavic/etc. etymologies for almost all words mentioned. They have no excuse: Alexandru Rosetti's work in the 1960s was splendid and far superior. They could've just written summaries of Rosetti's books with some slight updates and call it a day, but nooo, they had to write horribly subpar handbooks instead... I honestly don't get it.
I happen to own three of them, Du Nay (1977), Niculescu (1981) and Sala (1998), and they're all invariably bad, being far more concerned with vocabulary than grammar while omitting the Latin/Slavic/etc. etymologies for almost all words mentioned. They have no excuse: Alexandru Rosetti's work in the 1960s was splendid and far superior. They could've just written summaries of Rosetti's books with some slight updates and call it a day, but nooo, they had to write horribly subpar handbooks instead... I honestly don't get it.
Petunt splendor linguae illius ut abdatur.
My professor used Sala, not Rosetti, so I don't know what to say. We could use anything we liked for the exam though.