Sorry to go on, and on, and on, but this defies belief…
For the those who do not know, the headline reads ‘Five Dead at Amsterdam Airport; Adi Mutu Can’t Fly to Amsterdam’. It appears on the website of www.sport.ro, a sports broadcaster, Sport.ro (known as ‘No Sport.ro’ for the fact that it shows very little [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
A New Low for Romanian Journalism
Bram Stocker’s Dracula
Looks like it is not just the ad that has a typo: all of the actual Dracula books being sold with Adevarul have the same mistake on the cover.
Oh dear.
Doesn’t anyone proof read anything anymore?
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Bucharest is Affordable Paradise
Another wonderful spoof news report from The Onion. Recognise the building in the background?
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Romanian TV News Cliches
Ever noticed (those of you who watch and understand Romanian TV news that is) how many stock phrases there are? How many cliches?
There are some subjects where you simply know exactly what kind of thing the presenter will say. Here are a just a few we’ve been collecting (with apologies for any spelling/grammatical errors. By [...]
Madonna in Bucharest. An offer we can refuse
Tickets to the much heralded Madonna concert in Bucharest, to be held in Parcul Izvor on August 26th, went on sale yesterday. Not general sale, of course. Oh no. Only for clients of Vodafone. (We know all this because we got SMS Spam from Vodafone telling us).
So there’s one reason we do not want to [...]