# Bram Stoker's Dracula, translation of a line \[in Romanian\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256 "2009-11-04T04:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/21 "2009-11-06T04:17:17Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I often watch DVDs with the subtitles turned on, and I suspect that they are simply transcribed by someone watching the film rather than being based on the shooting script. Even in English I’ve caught mistakes where a similar-sounding word was substituted for what the actor actually said. Whoever is doing the transcription has no idea what the person speaking in another language is saying, so they just put \*Speaking in \*[_Whatever Language_]. You can imagine the gaffs that come up when technical terms start coming up. I remember once seeing Danny Glover in an A-6 warning the other planes in his formation about a “[B-issue 23](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZSU-23-4)” ahead. :smack: Though, if I remember correctly, the _VHS_ subtitles for Dracula actually used the Romanian text at one point, though the DVD didn’t. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/22 "2009-11-06T04:23:37Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > That movie didn’t totally suck. How did it end up on Svengoolie? What’s ‘Svengoolie’, and where should that link have pointed? ---
**Author:** ![ravensaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@ravensaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ravensaint)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/23 "2010-07-21T11:05:52Z")
“Strigoi” = Vampire and “morloi” is pretty much the same thing. Demon, monster and whatever. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/24 "2010-07-21T15:03:54Z")
> [@ravensaint](#): > > “Strigoi” = Vampire and “morloi” is pretty much the same thing. Demon, monster and whatever. …ex-wife. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/25 "2010-07-21T16:50:21Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > What’s ‘Svengoolie’, and where should that link have pointed? [Svengoolie](http://www.wciu.com/svengoolie.php). ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/26 "2010-07-21T18:40:42Z")
Fun fact, since this thread has been bumped: I once got stuck in Giurgiu, Romania, for a couple hours while waiting for the bus to Bucharest. (There’s one bridge that crosses the Danube between Bulgaria and Romania. The Romanian side is in Giurgiu.) I kind of wandered around the town for that time and was very surprised to find a large statue of Vlad Tepes in the middle of square. Another, mysterious and probably _too_ much fun fact: Peace Corps Volunteers have been banned from going to Bran, Romania (where Dracula’s castle is) at Halloween. I have no idea what prompted the ban in the first place, but it must have been _bad_ because each Peace Corps program runs autonomously and the different country programs don’t have much contact with each other, even when they’re neighbors. But both years I was in Bulgaria, as Halloween approached, we got an email from the director of Peace Corps Romania, saying that we were forbidden from going to Bran for Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![IamMomma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@IamMomma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IamMomma)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/27 "2011-05-26T13:00:20Z")
For as “old” of a movie as it is, Dracula is still one of my favorites. Gotta love the whole mystique of it!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/28 "2011-05-26T15:32:41Z")
I love this movie, for all of it’s weirdness and mystique too! but I did meet a guy in New Orleans that seemed to have taken it a bit too seriously - he actually looked like he stepped off the set… ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/29 "2011-05-26T15:39:56Z")
> [@StoutHearted](#): > > God help me, I did. Should I be ashamed to confess that I can sing along with the song? I like it because it is just so perky … so I asked my romanian buddy to get me the lyrics for it. And i like the viral vid of the kid singing along 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/30 "2011-05-26T15:51:05Z")
Gotta appreciate the significance of this thread being resurrected on the 114th anniversary of the novel Dracula’s release. Yesterday was the 114th anniversary of the last day there was no vampire novel released. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/31 "2011-05-26T18:53:08Z")
> [@ravensaint](#): > > “Strigoi” = Vampire and “morloi” is pretty much the same thing. Demon, monster and whatever. Weird coincidence, I was just doing some research on the popularity of teen vampire novels today and learned that “strigoi” and “moroi” as the names of types of vampires in the _Vampire Academy_ books. Had never heard of these words before, and now here they are everywhere! The infamous [Baader Meinhof Phenomenon](http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon) strikes again! > [@Sampiro](#): > > Gotta appreciate the significance of this thread being resurrected on the 114th anniversary of the novel Dracula’s release. > > Yesterday was the 114th anniversary of the last day there was no vampire novel released. Sadly we’d have to go back a bit further – [The Vampyre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre) was published in 1819. So this obsession is nearly 200 years old. … One might almost say it’s _immortal_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/32 "2011-05-26T19:43:40Z")
Varney the Vampire was also published well before Dracula, published as a serial in 1845-1847 and as a novel in 1847 according to Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/33 "2011-05-26T20:02:14Z")
“Count Dracula” sends chills down the spine, but how in the heck are you going to be frightened of someone named “Varney”? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/34 "2011-05-26T21:23:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Count Dracula” sends chills down the spine, but how in the heck are you going to be frightened of someone named “Varney”? Pretty easily. “I love you, you love me, we’re a DIE!” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/35 "2011-05-26T21:29:52Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Count Dracula” sends chills down the spine, but how in the heck are you going to be frightened of someone named “Varney”? I always pictured him as having only one fang, which he has to keep in his right breast pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/36 "2011-05-26T22:08:49Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Count Dracula” sends chills down the spine, but how in the heck are you going to be frightened of someone named “Varney”? _“I hate you, Butler … get this bus out of here”_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/37 "2011-05-27T10:55:27Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > [Svengoolie](http://www.wciu.com/svengoolie.php). That’s not Svengoolie. That’s the Son of Svengoolie. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/38 "2011-05-27T12:23:52Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Weird coincidence, I was just doing some research on the popularity of teen vampire novels today and learned that “strigoi” and “moroi” as the names of types of vampires in the _Vampire Academy_ books. Had never heard of these words before, and now here they are everywhere! The infamous [Baader Meinhof Phenomenon](http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon) strikes again! > > Sadly we’d have to go back a bit further – [The Vampyre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre) was published in 1819. So this obsession is nearly 200 years old. > > … One might almost say it’s _immortal_. The Polidori piece isn’t a novel–it’s rather a short story. [Carmilla](http://www.english.upenn.edu/~nauerbac/crml.html)(1872) was a novella, and it’s much longer–and much more readable than _Varney_. If you want to stop this nitpicking and shoot for substantial literary works about vampires, then you can go back even further. Goethe’s [The Bride of Corinth](http://web.uvic.ca/geru/487/corinth.html)came out in 1797. ---
**Author:** ![RomanianPrincess](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romanianprincess/32/13069_2.png) [@RomanianPrincess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RomanianPrincess)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/39 "2023-01-05T17:12:13Z")
“Your love is mine” In Romanian - Dragostea ta este a mea He then says - I have crossed oceans of time to find you. ---
**Author:** ![RomanianPrincess](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romanianprincess/32/13069_2.png) [@RomanianPrincess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RomanianPrincess)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bram-stokers-dracula-translation-of-a-line-in-romanian/516256/40 "2023-01-05T17:13:06Z")
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