At 06:33 2/25/2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>Alain LaBonté wrote:
> > [...] Who knows? What is the word for "gipsy" in Romanian? [...]
>
>"Rom", in fact: I just asked this to a Rumanian colleague.
I presumed this was the reason for the code change 'request' from the
Romanian government. Bigotry against and persecution of the Rom is a
long-standing Romanian tradition: one of the few constants of the country's
political scene.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit,
das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich
nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte.
... every image of the past that is not recognized by the
present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear
irretrievably.
Walter Benjamin
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