čhořoři

khuleskero muj. 

*sigh*

:) 

The honest fact is, non-Romani are not ‘clean’ in the same ways that we are. We have a lot of cleanliness rules and we still practice many of them - especially where food is concerned. When I used to work in an office with non-Roma, I found it quite a challenge. They’d sneeze everywhere, put dirty hands all over everything, eat with a fork they dropped on the floor (or eat food they dropped on the floor). They’d take food and drink into the rest room, leave dirty tissues everywhere... people don’t clean things very well - even here at home, I clorox every surface, keep the toilet lid closed, rinse out the sinks every time I use them... keep raw meat away from other foods (raw or cooked). These things just make sense to me and honestly, the way non-Romani live their lives is quite baffling to me. How do you do it without being sick all the time or catching parasites from meats (pork is SO bad for that)....? I don’t understand how you can even consider half the things you do as “clean”... 

Thank you. It means a great deal.

I dare you.

Na džanav so som te phenel. Akana, kamav te xal saaaaaavoro sa! Aja ciknori hin jekh bokhali phakalji! Bah. Sakoďiveseskero kamav te pisinel jekh sera (adej)... abo... majbut khinjardi som. Majbut khabnji thaj phari lol. Aj. Te merava....

Mitko, 17, was beaten in Bulgaria for saying Roma are equal to non-Roma. Post a photo in solidarity with Mitko!

Mitko: A Roma Rights Hero In Europe, it takes guts for Roma to stand up to racist bullies. That’s what 17 year-old Mitko, pictured here, did earlier this week. The thug he stood up to attacked him. He’s not backing down. He believes#RomaAreEqual and so do we. We’re working with the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee to make sure Mitko gets justice. Mitko is today’s most visible Roma rights hero. Many others are also taking their cases to court, to the internet, or to the streets, and we are backing them.

Dikhel is an INTRANSITIVE verb in Kalderash (though considered transitive in some other dialects) so you are not doing the looking to the horse… if that makes sense?! Now I guess if you’re looking at multiple horses then you have to decline in the oblique: “dikhav le grastes” - I see the horses. I think this is partly because horse is both singular and plural in Romani, much like sheep in English.

"It's time," Maami said...

The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman. Szpilman's family were deported to Treblinka, where they were exterminated; he survived only because a music-loving policeman recognised him. ‬

http://red4remembrance.tumblr.com/