Children, wet hair, the hummingbird diet, and words.

[lovimoment]

Children.Montenegrins are very tolerant of children. Tuesday night we were eating dinner at Hemera, an amazing restaurant right next to our hotel, and Alex spent the entire time running around, and instead of glaring or ahem-ing, the waiter, Vlado, was playing with him. He lifted him up to the bar so he could see the bartender frothing milk, and

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[dyvo]

mrkva is a carrot )
I winder which word in Russian it reminded to you :)
They also sometimes use a word "shargarepa", but that is more in Serbia.
Watch out for "false translator`s friends" - the words that sound like Russian but have different if not opposite meaning.
Like "pravo" here means straight, not right :)
Or "vrijedno" means useful, not harmful :)

About wet hair - oooh, that is Balkan-wide thing. They think if you go out with your hair wet, your head will ache and you will die eventually )))) Even if it`s like +40 C outside )

[lovimoment]

I'd always assumed the prohibition against wet hair was because of the cold climate, but I guess it's actually just cultural. :)

[vero_knitting]

I finally convinced myself that wet hair rule does not work in Western Hemisphere :-))

[wolk_off]

Shargarepa? Just how it is like Russian for "to scratch oneself," I wonder ;-)
But yes, Crnogorci tend to say "mrkva", which is just like the Old Slavonic "morkva" (with the same meaning, "carrot.")

[wolk_off]

That's the one. Mrkva would have been easy to remember. Something about the accent here - or maybe my hearing is getting bad - I can't always understand whether it's ts, ch, or sh. And Alex was trying to run away so I didn't hear the g at all. At the time it sounded like he said tsarepa...

[lovimoment]

Sorry, that was me. :)

[lovimoment]

P.S. We saw this yesterday while we were out walking and it made me think of our conversation. (It's in chalk, not graffiti.) https://www.flickr.com/photos/14457761@N07/14854223206/