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Thus went another day and my dissertation still isn't quite finished (but it is 20 pages further than it was yesterday).
To add another item to the list of things to do when you should be writing your dissertation I would like to bring to your attention the Romanian Slang Dictionary (RO: Dictionarul de argou al limbii romane) written by George Volceanov and published by Editura Niculescu in 2006. There, I gave a complete bibliographic reference.
Just to give you an example of how you can have an incredibly good time reading a dictionary here's a word Costi found in this special dictionary a while ago and that I'd been trying to remember ever since:
Jarcalete - haimana intretinuta de o prostituata batrana.
Without this dictionary I would never have known there was a word for that and I'm still having problems understanding WHY we need a word for it... or... why an old prostitute would do that.
Anyway, that dictionary is hours of fun.
For my English-speaking friends, "jarcalete" essentially means: a tramp supported by an old prostitute.
Oh, and on the same page, you'll also find "jagardea", "janghinos" and "jeg penal" which I suppose is what happens when the old prostitute isn't giving the "jarcalete" any money anymore.
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