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Crisps are Chips and Chips are Fries

Jun 15th, 2009 | By Ginette | Category: Featured Articles

At that point you can only think to yourself: why not having one standard word for each thing? Easy; make a decision – where’s the pavement, where’s the sidewalk, and what’s the curb? Second language learners would appreciate some consensus.



Blană la gât sau blana tâmplarului?

Jun 9th, 2009 | By Raluca | Category: Română

[English] -Ia boxele și pune-ți dresul ca să mergem la lac! -Poftim?! Nu îmi pun dresul pe căldura asta, și în nici un caz nu voi lua boxele! Am avut cu ceva timp în urmă acest dialog cu o prietenă din Banat și ne-a luat mai mult de 5 minute pentru a ne lămuri. Se [...]



”Scream me the broken pants” or the regional words in Romania

Jun 9th, 2009 | By Raluca | Category: English

Romanian is a very united language, with no dialects that can count as (almost) different languages. However, we do have a lot of regional words which vary from one part of the country to another, and these can be sometimes the subject of some really funny misunderstandings.