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  • Roger Kovaciny
    Well, a "Roman" is a romance, which is to say a novel--not necessarily romantic. Romanik does NOT mean a romantic; that would be romantik. Nor does it mean a novelist, which is romanist. From my knowledge of Russian, which I do speak, I would guess it means an adventurer or an exotic. The Oxford Russian Dictionary doesn't list it as a separate word. It could also mean Romantic, in the seventeenth-century sense. But I live in Ukraine, and when a beautiful Russian-speaking girl told me she craved romance, a romantic encounter was the last thing she had in mind--not with me, not with anybody else. She wanted new experiences with new people in new places.
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