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I'm not a big fan of the Romanian language. I find English much more elegant.
One of the things that I absolutely love about English is how easily you can create brand new words, either through altering a prefix/suffix, or by merging or concatenating 2 previous existing words. And the end result sounds just as natural as any other English word.
You really can't do the same with Romanian. No matter how much you try, "băiat-pisică" doesn't flow as easily as "cat-boy".
We literally had to copy the word "weekend", because a literal translation would be "sfârșit de săptămână", which is way too long and unwieldy, and we just don't have a way to make a good alternative.
@TheAncestor
Apparently the word has slavic origins. I just looked it up out of curiosity. The word means: having the hair of a wolf.
@TheAncestor
From romanian wiki: Vârcolac is a demon that eats the Sun and the Moon.
Holly fuck...
Interesting considering it is the children of Fenrir that eat the sun and moon in Norse mythology.
I have actually been meaning to look more into the intermingling of Werewolf and Vampire folk stories. Because typically when one thinks of Vampire they think of the Bram Stoker version of them but the older version were very different and at times I've seen some entities referred to as both a vampire and a werewolf from older stories.
@TheAncestor
You might find this interesting.
Becoming a strigoi
Be the seventh child of the same sex in a family;
Lead a life of sin
Die without being married…
…by execution for perjury
…by suicide
…having been cursed by a witch.
Damn Mama Awoo didn't have enough kids
@TheAncestor
I had no idea the word made it into so many foreign media... It feels like other people are using "strigoi" more then us.
Yeah I am familiar with the Warhammer use of the word. I actually have an army of their Age of Sigmar version now known as "Flesh-Eater Courts"
"Be the seventh child of the same sex in a family"
In my country if the seventh child is a man and the former 6 are women you become a werewolf.
Too much nagging on the poor baby.
@alyx
Exactly. This makes english so great.
simple two word combinations like outrage bait are so hard to do in non-germanic languages...
"Fim de semana"
English is easy, but I do love my portuguese with its many verbal conjugations.
@Lavaearth
Romanian is the same way with verb conjugations. So is French. It's a pain in the ass if you ask me.
Also italian and spanish. All romantic languages have verbal complications.
I both hate it and love it. I have been trying to incorporate more verbal flexions in my everyday vocabulary.
You guys have a cool way of saying werewolf though. Vârcolac.