In this article I aimed at presenting some personal memories concerning my former professor Stelian Dumistrăcel, an extraordinary linguist and a remarkable representative of the Romanian dialectology. At the same time, I tried to make an analogy between Stelian Dumistrăcel’s activity as a dialectological investigator and Socrates’ dialectics (as a dialogical technique). In this regard, I offered a series of relevant examples extracted from his dialectological “logbook”.