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Good old ro... what means "varza, viezure, manz"?
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| Posted by: aviatiadasenzatia November 18, 2004 01:47 pm |
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| Posted by: b737 November 18, 2004 01:53 pm |
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| Posted by: dragos November 18, 2004 01:54 pm |
| Forum language has been discussed several times by now. See the topic: http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=442 |
| Posted by: dragos November 18, 2004 01:55 pm |
| Please write in English, non English messages will be deleted. Also be sure to read http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?act=boardrules |
| Posted by: Iamandi November 18, 2004 02:02 pm |
| Nice topic!!! Good old ro... what means "varza, viezure, manz"? Iama |
| Posted by: aviatiadasenzatia November 18, 2004 03:34 pm |
Means that is unusual to use another language when we can speak in Romanian. I guess , at least 90 % of the users are Romanians . Don't get me wrong , I'm not a member or sympathizer of Mr. W.C. Tudor , but get real who is more interested in Romanian Militaria ??? Answer : Romanians.....  |
| Posted by: Victor November 18, 2004 04:25 pm |
| Browse the members list and you will see that more than your estimate of 10% of the members are not from Romania or of Romanian ethnicity. Also it may surprise you to know, that there are non-Romanians interested in Romania and its history (this is forum is not entirely dedicated to militaria). |
| Posted by: aviatiadasenzatia November 18, 2004 04:58 pm |
| Victor , there is no possibility to find out who is from where . Maybe you as a administrator you can see this. And after all , that means nothing , because there are millions of Romanians in …diaspora.... So , if there is someone from Germany or USA (for example) to access this site it has to be connected somehow to Romania , as origin , or something else . Regards . |
| Posted by: Victor November 18, 2004 07:40 pm |
| Trust me. I've been here longer than you have and when I say that there are plenty non-Romanians I mean it. |
| Posted by: aviatiadasenzatia November 18, 2004 08:35 pm |
| Ok , if you say so .... |
| Posted by: Alexandru H. November 19, 2004 03:12 pm |
Victor is right. Moldavians have the right not to talk the romanian language...  |
| Posted by: aviatiadasenzatia November 19, 2004 06:38 pm |
| English , Romanian or Moldavian , doesn't matter , the fact is I'm glad that site exists , and I'm really grateful to the authors. |
| Posted by: b737 February 20, 2005 10:04 am | ||
I'm sure that you are grateful..... |
| Posted by: cipiamon February 20, 2005 04:11 pm |
| Unfortunetly this site adress to romanian army but strictly to thouse who speak english verry fluent. The creator of this site had 2 option, first the relation to outside Romania, whit all the historians from outside (although personaly i seen 99% romanian contributors) losing all the non or poor english speakers and the second one to be a Romanian language to site and lose all the outside visitors and to win all the romanian contributors. The good thing is that the information on romanian army become more accesible on the internet to english speakers. The bad thing is that any eventual information provided by non-english romanians is been sweept. |
| Posted by: Benoit Douville February 21, 2005 02:50 am |
| cipiamon, I am glad that this forum exist and that is in english so I am able to learn a lot from the Romanian perspective during World War II even if my english is not that good. How about a section only in the Romanian language so it will attract more Romanian who don't speak english. Regards |
| Posted by: Victor February 21, 2005 07:22 am |
| Both Dragos and me have limited time to devote to the site and there is still much more work to be done. English was chosen because frankly it is the lingua franca of our days and I doubt that most of the Romanians using the Internet do not have even elementary knowledge of English. It would be extremely hard and pointless to surf the net without knowing English. Let them make an intelectual effort and use it, as it can't really harm them. There are other non-native English members that don't seem to have a problem, do they? As for the 99% Romanian contribution, I think you are mistaking cipiamon. That would mean that only 5 out of 500 members are foreign, which is not true. In short, there will be no Romanian language section for this forum. |
| Posted by: Der Maresal February 22, 2005 06:49 pm | ||
What would the world have been like if the USSR had not collapsed, and if Russian was still the main language tought in Romanian schools ? DA? What if Russian, rather then English, would be the primary language spoken in the world - (if Russia won cold war and ruled the world). This forum would be "po Rusky", we would all be forced to write in Russian, and all Romanian language banned or translated by the admins.  |
| Posted by: dragos February 22, 2005 07:22 pm |
Der Maresal, I think our customary members have already understand why we use English language on this forum. Don't try to make it appear as we have something against Romanian language, or show your xenophobic feelings. If we were 2000 years ago, we would have used the Latin language. Is this bothering you?  |
| Posted by: cipiamon February 22, 2005 11:52 pm |
| Der Maresal, verry intresting point! Apropo, the most used language on the internet is not english, but chinese. |
| Posted by: valachus February 23, 2005 05:33 pm | ||
I think you have forgotten (if you ever knew) that in communist states it's illegal to own even an unregistered typing machine, let alone computers hooked to the Web. Free access to the Internet in Communism? You're dreaming, how many people from Cuba or China have you actually discussed online with?! So, had USSR won the Cold War, there would have been no forum, no discussion on whether Antonescu was or not a war criminal (or else the Gulag for you). But we could have always participated in international communist youth's contests and see who has better knowledge of Lenin and Stalin's complete works. |
| Posted by: cipiamon February 23, 2005 06:02 pm |
| It loks like we have somme advantages |
| Posted by: Der Maresal February 24, 2005 09:42 pm |
| Lots of Chinese have access to the internet, and China is the land where you can get any computer game free to download or on the black market. They don't care about copy right laws, you can pretty much find anything you want. So in that regard - they are "free-er" then we are.  Read: http://www.geocities.com/tcgod2001/chinese.html |
| Posted by: Dénes February 24, 2005 09:55 pm | ||
Check out the bottom right corner of the banner you posted. Gen. Dénes |
| Posted by: cipiamon March 10, 2005 04:13 pm |
| Is ther gonna be romanin language categoriies after all? |
| Posted by: dragos March 10, 2005 04:51 pm |
| No. |
| Posted by: cipiamon March 10, 2005 05:46 pm |
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| Posted by: rix May 19, 2006 06:53 pm | ||
Yes it's a good idea |
| Posted by: dragos May 20, 2006 03:39 am | ||
It's hard to imagine that regular users of Internet do not speak/understand English. |
| Posted by: Florin May 21, 2006 03:26 am | ||
Arguably, one important achievement of this site (i.e. www.worldwar2.ro) was to make available to foreigners information regarding Romania in WWII, and Romania in general, if we consider all topics. The foreign readers of this site would not be able to inform themselves about Romania if the text would be in Romanian. |
| Posted by: Florin May 21, 2006 03:36 am | ||||
Indeed... In the recent years (after 2001) China had to sign agreements regarding intellectual property. Just few days ago, the top leaders of Germany and China met to discuss the German complaint regarding Chinese counterfeit products. |
| Posted by: RHaught October 24, 2007 02:14 am | ||
Florin, You are correct. Having the Forum in English allows those of us who are very interested in Romania and WWII to have access to information that we would't otherwise have. My wife would go nuts if I had to ask her to translate postings and tell me how to write them in Romanian. Married ten years and go to Romania at least once a year (we try out best) and still my skills in the language are not that great. I still know French more than Romanian and I haven't studied it in years. |
| Posted by: guina December 10, 2007 08:20 pm |
| Using Romanian on this site will mean to transform it into a provincial club. |
| Posted by: Tommy January 05, 2008 10:11 pm |
| Hi I'm from Germany and i have not learn this language but i most do it  So i search infos about Romania Soldier in WW2 so i must my search write in english... Cheers and thanks a lot for this help in this Forum... |
| Posted by: hcm May 04, 2008 11:30 am |
please, we can write in romanian too!?! tanks  |
| Posted by: C-2 May 04, 2008 11:43 am |
| No acording to site rules. |