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Thread #51045   Message #778035
Posted By: InOBU
06-Sep-02 - 08:10 AM
Thread Name: Poem - The Gypsy & the Judge...
Subject: RE: Poem - The Gypsy & the Judge...
Hi McGrath: Rom pronounced grgrom (r in the back of the throat like gargling...) means man in Romaness. Most of the language, over 70%, is Hindi. Pl. Roma, fem. Romni, of roma, romani. It is like many Indian tribes who self refer as "the people". They refer to the rest of the world as Gyzen, gayzo or gadjzo, being the masculine singluar, which in Hindi means civilian, as the Roma where once Rajaput warriors. In one of the great irony's of history, they were once the second highest cast in India...
So you that have wealth,
beware of ambition
for some twist of fate,
may change your condition!
Is this based on a true story.... well...
yes and no...
as always I am working on this and that, and one day will tell you all part of the story.
Cheers, Larry