Only robbers
and gypsies say that one must never return where one has once been.
----Kierkegaard
Treatment Still Harsh for Roma in France
By STEVEN ERLANGER
President François Hollande’s government came into office promising a
better deal for the Roma, but life hasn’t gotten any easier for
immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria.
China Bluntly Tells North Korea to Enter Nuclear Talks
By JANE PERLEZ
The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping struck a stern tone as he called for the
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, according to a state-run
Chinese news agency.
denuclearize
Pronunciation: /diːˈnjuːklɪərʌɪz/
(also denuclearise)
Definition of denuclearize
verb
[with object]Derivatives
Japan's 'nuclear gypsies' face radioactive peril at power plants
Los Angeles Times
Unskilled contractors make up most of the workforce and face higher doses of radiation than utility employees at Fukushima and other nuclear power plants in Japan. By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times Kazuo Okawa's luckless career as a "nuclear gypsy" ...
Music
Roma rap against Czech 'practical schools'
Human rights groups accuse Czech authorities of placing a
disproportionately high number of Roma, or gypsy, children into schools for
the learning disabled. A group of young Roma rappers is working to change
that.
A song from the musical “Gypsy” celebrates a lengthy list of words ending in “-stone,” which includes curbstones, touchstones, grindstones, gallstones, millstones, moonstones “and such stones as them.”
About the only “-stone” missing from “Have an Egg Roll, Mr. Goldstone” is the name of a wine brand featured in a new print campaign, Blackstone, which carries the theme “Here’s to the things in life you can count on.”
The idea behind the campaign, created by Amazon Advertising in San Francisco, is that just as you can trust, say, Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics for "Gypsy," to produce memorable music, consumers can trust Blackstone to provide fine wine at reasonable prices (most of its offerings cost $8 to $10 a bottle).
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 路邊石
adj. - 場外交易的, 非專業的, 偶感而發的
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 縁石
adj. - 場外で取引する, 素人の
n.
A stone or row of stones that constitutes a curb.
adj. Untrained or unsophisticated; amateurish: a curbstone commentator. kerbstone
Gypsy
[名]
1 ジプシー. ▼彼ら自身はRomanyと称している.
2 [U]ジプシー語(Romany).
3 ((g-))ジプシーに似た（生活をする）人；放浪癖の人.
4 ((g-))＝gyp1[名]3.
━━[形]((通例限定))ジプシーの；ジプシー風の.
［古フランス語←ギリシャ語. 原義は「エジプト人」であるが, これはジプシーがエジプトから来たという誤解による. ジプシーはインドから来た］
Gyp・sy・ish
[形]ジプシーめいた.gypsy
n., pl., -sies, also -sies.
- A member of a people that arrived in Europe in migrations from northern India around the 14th century, now also living in North America and Australia. Many Gypsy groups have preserved elements of their traditional culture, including an itinerant existence and the Romany language.
- See Romany (sense 2).
- gypsy One inclined to a nomadic, unconventional way of life.
- A person who moves from place to place as required for employment, especially:
- A part-time or temporary member of a college faculty.
- A member of the chorus line in a theater production.
[Alteration of Middle English gypcian, short for Egipcien, Egyptian (so called because Gypsies were thought to have come from Egypt).]
France clamps down on Gypsy settlements
French President Nicolas Sarkozy flexed his muscles on immigration Tuesday, as his interior minister announced a clampdown on foreign Roma, or Gypsies, making their homes in illegal camps around the country.
The Roma, or Romani, entered southeastern Europe via the Byzantine Empire in the late Middle Ages from India. Early chronicles referred to the Roma as AEgyptians, hence the name Gypsies. However, in much of Europe they are referred to as Zigeuner, cigán, cigány, or tsiganes, which are derived from the Byzantine Greek word Atsínganoi, 'itinerant soothsayers and wanderers'. Most members of this diverse ethnic group prefer to be called Roma, 'group', or Romas, the adjectival form being Romani.
The Roma, or Romani, entered southeastern Europe via the Byzantine Empire in the late Middle Ages from India. Early chronicles referred to the Roma as AEgyptians, hence the name Gypsies. However, in much of Europe they are referred to as Zigeuner, cigán, cigány, or tsiganes, which are derived from the Byzantine Greek word Atsínganoi, 'itinerant soothsayers and wanderers'. Most members of this diverse ethnic group prefer to be called Roma, 'group', or Romas, the adjectival form being Romani.
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