Say goodbye to anyone! We're all gonna die thanks to the UN.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Considering that gypsies are also called 'Roma', is Romania named after the fact that all its people are gypsies? Does Romania mean 'land of the gypsies' or something?

Of course not . Romanians generally despise Roma people, as do Italians, although this is a rather broad generalisation. Nevertheless it is reflected in the sentiment of those two nations as a whole.

In any case, rom, I believe, is Gypsy for "man", which is a common name for most ancient ethnic people - generally ethnic groups are named after their own names for themselves, which usually means "people" or "men" in their own tongue.

Romanians, on the other hand are named for Romans, as the Romanian people self-style themselves as the true descendants of Romans. Ethnically and culturally it is crap, although their language is not too far from Latin, and it seemed to me that it was at least closer than Spanish, in my experience, as I have studied and spoke both of those langauges. Since French is rather farther off IMHO, I would say that Romanian could be the closest language to Latin after Italian.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Of course not

Aw man, I was hoping for Cronos to respond first.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Aw man, I was hoping for Cronos to respond first.

Did they not teach you at school what bias is, and how to choose sources less likely to exhibit it?

I mean, I have no idea who Cronos is, but he is a Romanian, and just as asking me what I think of Chechens and the Moscow-as-Third-Rome doctrine is unwise, same goes for Cronos.


But yeah, I realise your were quipping, so no need to act as if I am an android.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

What ?

[Aemilius Paulus]

What ?

Post one more spam post and I will report. Spam all you wish in the EB Forums, but this is Backroom.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

No, not really AP. You're the only who shows an uncanny concern for me and for portraying me in a bad light, as a spammer and a troll. I'm just posting innocently around, and *yawn* - I think you're the one who deserves to be reported for all of it, including this off-topic discussion about myself that you provoked.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Since the topic for discussion is still unclear, and in the vacuum we have descended to petty sniping, I think it is better for our health that the thread is closed.