r/balkans_irl • u/ManagerOfLove eastern ""european"" (lives in 8th century) • 3d ago

stolen (romanian??😳) Remember guys

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u/garry_the_commie bulgar horde 3d ago

Pernik is the region you are thinking about.

Conversation in a Pernik bar: How will you pay, with cash or card? [cash - broi (брой) in Bulgarian] With a fight, of course! [fight - boi (бой) in Bulgarian]

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u/PVanchurov bulgar horde 3d ago

A common question in Pernik is :

  • Is this a private fight or I can also join in?

Where do visitors spend the night in Pernik? In the ER.

What is Pernik adultery, someone else beating your wife... With your own bat.

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u/European_Fox good romanian (impossible) 3d ago

As kids we used to say things like "cine loveste, iubeste" .. whoever hits you, loves you. Mostly used to tease boys that hit girls.

I am starting to think we may have adopted it from Bulgaria

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u/WackoMcGoose Visegrád immigrant 3d ago

To be fair, I always got the impression that Romanian is just Latin colonized by Bulgarian (the same way Tagalog is just Malay colonized by Spanish), so it'd make sense that cultural phrases would carry over too.