Romanies

From: smith
Message: 3172
Date: 2000-08-16

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>> ... I'm off to Transcarpathian Ruthenia (Uzhorod via Kosice in
Slovakia)
>> on family vacation in a couple of month's time. ......
> > Slovakian friends seem to regard East Slovakia as the middle of nowhere,
>> populated by hated Romanies . ....
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>Marcus Prometheus:
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>Romanies ???
>Do you mean ROMS (= Gypsies) ?
>or Romanians ?
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>Thanks and regards in advance
>Marcus Prometheus
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I intended to write "Romanies" but maybe that doesn't mean what I thought it
meant. My intended meaning was ROMS (=gypsies) and not Romanians. I'm not
aware of Romanian minorities in Transcarpathian Ruthenia but I'll keep my
eyes open!


Andrew

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