Vlachs, any Vlachs here?

**Taffy_is_a_Taff** · 09-29-2005, 16:40

I just want to know more about your people and culture.

And how many of you there are nowadays and what your culture's prospects are (secure? likely to disappear soon?)

Thanks in advance to any lurking Vlachs.

**Byzantine Prince** · 09-29-2005, 18:40

I'm 1/4 vlach.

**Sjakihata** · 09-29-2005, 19:20

What's a vlach?

**Byzantine Prince** · 10-01-2005, 00:02

A vlach is a very goodlooking person...

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 10-01-2005, 04:28

Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince

A vlach is a very goodlooking person...

...But earlier you said you were only one-quarter Vlach, so that implies....

oops!

Never mind...

Seamus

**edyzmedieval** · 10-01-2005, 11:22

A Vlach is indeed a very good looking person.(us Romanians are very good looking men

, and beautiful women also!!!! those who visited Romania know very well

)

A Vlach comes from the Balkans, more specifically from Romania and Bulgaria.

**Paul Peru** · 10-01-2005, 11:51

It sounds a bit... like retching, though, doesn't it.

**GoreBag** · 10-02-2005, 03:18

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

A Vlach is indeed a very good looking person.(us Romanians are very good looking men

, and beautiful women also!!!! those who visited Romania know very well

)

A Vlach comes from the Balkans, more specifically from Romania and Bulgaria.

Actually, I know four transported Romanians in person. Only one of them is attractive, but all of the pictures she's shown me of her (female) Romanian friends both in town and in the old country were basically gorgeous. I guess Vlachs don't react well with North American water, or something.

"Vlach" is apparently, from Simetrical's post in the EB forum where he corrected me, another word for "Wallachian" - an ethnic group composed mainly of people whose ancestry can (or theoretically could) be traced back to the Thracian - as I understand it, the less Hellenised ones. Romanian is one of the major Romance languages, but it looks nothing like French, Italian or Spanish, at least to me.

**Red Harvest** · 10-02-2005, 04:19

Originally Posted by Paul Peru

It sounds a bit... like retching, though, doesn't it.

Many of the Balkan words sound like that. Names like Ratko, Slobodon, and Bosnia Hurts-to-go-in-there, and of course some place called Garage Door. Much of the region is in desperate need of some vowels. It's like Wheel of Fortune where the contestants have no money for vowels...

And if anyone takes ANY of what I just wrote seriously...it's all in jest, relax. You can't really enjoy other languages and cultures without appreciating a bit of juvenile humor about how odd some parts sound in other languages. (Eight in Spanish brings a smile to me whenever I hear someone say an 888 telephone number..."ocho-ocho-ocho." In Malay/Indonesian 999 sounds pretty funny to me, at least when some people say it--it is an emergency number in some places.)