tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447699.post5715098936089737769..comments2024-01-21T10:38:21.242+00:00Comments on Smoke Me A Kipper...: The Usefulness Of MapsErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15903199424734773952noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447699.post-63391247234481056062010-11-03T04:06:33.750+00:002010-11-03T04:06:33.750+00:00...while modern literary Romanian is filled with F......while modern literary Romanian is filled with French loans from XIXth century which some ignorant locals imagine are a direct link with the Latin heritage. <br /><br />However, the real Latin linguistic heritage is often hidden behind words with Slavic shape.<br /><br />As far as the present mentality goes, Persian-Turkish "bakshish" is the most important lexical loan.Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447699.post-4820792869904439082010-11-03T03:55:48.929+00:002010-11-03T03:55:48.929+00:00I liked your comment that she shepherds never hear...I liked your comment that she shepherds never heard the word transhumance :-))) <br /><br />More academic stuff:<br /><br />The Romanian history, the one taught in schools and present in media is tributary to the nationalistic discourse of Romantic XIXth century, the creation of Great Romania during WW1 and the dictatorial period of nationalist Ceausescu. <br /><br />It is an oversimplified model that states Romanians are the result of two cultural genes - the local Dacian and the alien Romans. While its true that anthropologically they are present in one way or another, migratories, that is Slavs, Magyars, Asians, Ottomans are largely ignored by the general perception, although they participated in equal ways to the creation of cultural profile of Romanians. <br /><br />The Latin heritage became a political tool in late XVIIIth early XIXth century, in Transylvania, as a mean to emphasise the rights of Romanians culturally valid, as brothers of Italians, French and as continuators of Roman empire. The Dacian heritage has been included in the political and nationalistic discourse after the development of archaeology and at the same time with the appearance of national states in Europe (Romania of today roughly corresponds to ancient Dacia at its largest expansion, during Emperor Burebista 1st century BC). <br /><br />An interesting detail though is that the ethnonym "Romanian" (in Ro. "roman", "ruman") is not an invention of the nationalists and has been preserved all over Balkans and Carpathians in Latinophone areas. In Northern Greece you will find the Aromanians, in Croatia the Istroromanians and so on. They speak some kind of ancient Romanian, post-Latin, stuck in time around Xth-XIVth centuries and filled with Slavic and Greek loans.Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447699.post-43297501132246290872010-11-02T17:50:00.761+00:002010-11-02T17:50:00.761+00:00Is that an offer? Feel free to get me one.Is that an offer? Feel free to get me one.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15903199424734773952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447699.post-23157486933727596552010-11-02T17:47:31.885+00:002010-11-02T17:47:31.885+00:00Maybe we should get you a SAT NAV Erik :)Maybe we should get you a SAT NAV Erik :)John Morleynoreply@blogger.com