congratulations, Danny! or, as it is customary to say in Romanian on such occasions: 'casă de piatră!' "[may your] house(hold) [be] of stone!"

nineteenth-century Romantic poets can always get away with anything. 😂 when I read that the first image that came into my mind was that of a swarm of boudoir creepy-crawlies.

"avalanșă de reclamații," I mean. "droaie de reclamații" would also work very well. both are quite vivid.

'roi' is still too concrete to work with anything abstract, I think, and its link with the deverbal 'a (o) roi,' which always takes an animate subject still very perceivable for that to work. I'd go for 'o avalanșă de plîngeri' instead. if you want something less neologistic, try 'o droaie de...'

you're welcome, as always!

Romanian should be 'rău.' |w| does not occur in native words, only in recent loanwords.

successful neighbors. so, wherever people live better and know they do so because of the spectacular development brought about by Romania's EU membership, they are less likely to be swayed by rabid, primitive nationalist, xenophobic, homophobic, and anti-EU rhetoric.

majority were the historically least developed and poorest areas (Bistrița-Năsăud, Hunedoara, Caraș-Severin) and, somewhat surprisingly, Arad, whose major urban center seems to have (recently) lost the development competition with Timișoara (Timiș) and Oradea (Bihor), its more...

centers, Lugoj and Sînnicolau Mare. this is a pattern which, I suspect, can be found in every county. it also appears very clearly all over Transylvania, i.e., the territory that before 1918 was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; the only counties in which the far-right candidate got a...

pro-European middle class. in Timiș county this is very clear; the green areas in the middle represent Timișoara, the county center, and the adjoining peri-urban settlements, which have experienced spectacular levels of growth in the last decade or so. also green, the other two major urban...

the Timiș county map I posted this morning reveals, just as the national map does, exactly where voters were mobilized by a discourse that focused on pro-European values; these are the urban areas that have experienced major growth since Romania joined the EU and the home of its growing (I hope)...

28.68% in the first round as opposed to the 37.99% of his far-right opponent. impressive mobilization of pro-European voters led to a significant increase in voter turnout, which nullified (with a vengeance!) any advantage his opponent might have had after the first round. just compare the maps 👇

oh, my! 😱

mare mirare că autorii/autoarele textului mai știu totuși ce-nseamnă 'menit, -ă.' m-aș fi așteptat la 'destinat, -ă.' 😁

that sounds very interesting!

so does UNESCO with its Intangible Heritage list(s), where most such items would be listed. even when they encourage collective submissions, these still have to come in the form of associations of nation-states. :(

you're welcome, Yoïn, as always!

yes, precisely. as far as I can remember, the earliest Latin loanwords in Albanian show no sign of prothesis. and it would be a bit far-fetched to assume that both Albanian and (what would become) Romanian independently eliminated it.