Maybe it was some kind of pitch-in party where each ethnic group brought a different food - Avars the beef, Balts the fish, Thracians the porridge, Romance speakers the lettuce..

Controversially, Curta argues that Slavic was not an ethnic language with deep roots but a koine formed in a specific conjuncture. This involved not only beef and porridge but also lettuce (ibid.)

Interesting piece, thanks! So not The Death of the Author but The Silencing of the Translator..

Proof emerged on the verso of this coin, authenticated only in 2022. Definitely corn and proof that the Dacians made it across the Atlantic!

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It's the Dacian mămăligă that does that

A couple of examples from the 1930s. But yes I think yr right, it didn't really enter popular speech
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"te amăgești" e vechi, limbaj normal. "autoamăgire" e sigur un calc, poate "Selbsttäuschung", self-deception