Thread:Samwysesr/@comment-22439-20160914025947/@comment-5454132-20161001092454

One would really think that a company with as much money as Marvel (with popular Romani characters in its stable) would spend a measly twenty dollars on either Dr. Ian Hancock's 'Handbook of Vlax Romani' or Ronald Lee's 'Romani Dictionary'—two books written by actual Romani who were raised speaking the language fluently... as opposed to relying on websites that have no ties (and probably not a single Roma translator on staff) to the ethnicity in question.

This is the exact problem—for centuries misinformation about the Romani people, our culture and our language has been stated as absolute fact by 'authorities' or 'educational organizations' like Oxford/Merriam-Webster who have absolutely no clue what they are talking about; it then filters down through popular media, like movies, novels and comics to the public, who take it as the gospel truth.

Romanes (which has hundreds of dialects/shibs) was traditionally passed orally and never formally set down in writing by actual Roma until modern times; in actuality, the correct gender neutral term for a Kumpànyas (the correct term for a group of Roma) with men and women is Romanies

(Sorry, I didn't mean to rant, I just get very frustrated that Marvel writers seem to care nothing about getting their information correct when it comes to (my) ethnicity.)