'Oh, Oh, Oh, O'Reillyyyyys! Auto parts! Ow!'. That cranberries are substituted for blueberries in most foods. That silence isn't actually 'silent' unless you are 100% deaf. That you shouldn't shower everyday, but actually every other day. That washing your hair once a week is actually healthier for you scalp and hair. That male ducks have corkscrew penis' and female ducks vaginas corkscrew the opposite way. That makeup, wigs, and tights were invented and worn by men first and women weren't allowed these items at first. That tampons were originally invented to plug gunshot wounds. That the chainsaw was originally invented to help with childbirth. If I have driven someplace once with directions, I can get there again anytime after that without directions no matter the time between visits but if I am not the one driving the first time and only a passenger, I cannot find the place again without directions. That is 8 homes lived in and over 25 houses/homes visited(friends and family over the last 30 years. I remember the floor plan of every house/home I have lived in and visited since the age of 2. The relationship is similar to the German/Dutch/Frisian relationship, with about 62% words similar or the same. Ukrainian is very similar to Russian but not identical. kangaroo, and elephant) and one outgroup species (an angel fish). Romanian itself is mostly Latin but has funny borrowings from Slavic, like the word for friend/love can be iubi or dragoste, similar to Russian liuba and druga. In other words, a feature is considered to be useful for phylogenetically grouping two. Apparently that's the stereotype about Romanians from the Greeks.
In modern Greek apparently Vlachos means something like hillbilly. Apparently anyone non-Germanic was a vlach. We see it in the word "Welsh" (Wealisc in Saxon). Wallachia comes from an old Germanic word "Vlach" meaning foreigner. Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes) aka Dracula apparently fought them and impaled them. This was basically the boundary between the Ottoman (Turkish) empire and the west. Bottom of Moldova is an area called Bessarabia. But they write in cyrillic (russian script). Moldova speaks Romanian (they deny it though), which is descended from latin (Roman, get it?). There's a small "country" between ukraine and moldova called transnistria/trans-dniester. Since we're all worried about Ukraine etc., here's a bunch of relevant geography-related facts. Paper Nursery Drawing Printing Illustration, The Elephant and the White. I've got vast numbers of useless facts in my head. palm leaves, 4 Pics 1 Word Word game Puzzle Letter, Green palm leaves, game.
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