To Viorel…a quiet NOTE

Our dear EDITOR. We appreciate your volume of info. However, we do not understand why you keep on adding COMMENTS with MUSIC, such as in BOLLYWOOD movies. Your ONE POST is ENOUGH. No need for extra LINKS. When u add an xtra link, is like “Ah, he’s a JOKER”. Never MIND. I know you shall continue with your “out of the box” approach. More POWER to you. Obviously, no decent…

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Neologisme

Andrei Pleşu: Neologismele Secretarele nu-şi mai spun decât manager assistant. Cizmarii şi chiloţarii sunt designeri. Mă aşteptam să fie vorba de crize de aclimatizare şi de micile noastre snobisme de cetăţeni ai unei ţări mici, dar vioaie. Nici gând. S-a ajuns la un nou limbaj de lemn, neologistic, întrebuinţat pe la posturi de radio şi de televiziune, iar cuvinte româneşti cât se poate de utile sunt înlocuite prosteşte de persoane…

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BARBOOTH

Is a DICE GAME from Eastern Europe. Barbooth, also called barbotte, or barbudi, dice game of Middle Eastern origin, used for gambling; in the United States it is played chiefly by persons of Greek or Jewish ancestry. The shooter casts two dice (traditionally miniature dice). If he throws 3–3, 5–5, 6–6, or 6–5, he wins; if he throws 1–1, 2–2, 4–4, or 1–2, he loses. Other combinations are meaningless. A…

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Homo homini lupus est

From Wikipedia: “Homo homini lupus, or in its unabridged form Homo homini lupus est, is a Latin proverb meaning “A man is a wolf to another man,” or more tersely “Man is wolf to man.” It has meaning in reference to situations where people are known to have behaved in a way comparably in nature to a wolf. The wolf as a creature is thought, in this example, to have…

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