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Cheers, stupid! (Romanian/German) h1n3o

German tourists in Romania can easily offend someone just by saying Prost, cheers, when they drink a glass of champagne. In Romanian prost means 'stupid'.

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Anonymous 2011-08-21

In Romanian:

prost=stupid
cheers=noroc

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