We would never, ever, even dream of writing and publishing anything in Romanian until it had been thoroughly proof read by a Romanian native speaker. It would be an offence against the Romanian language to do so. So why is it that so many Romanians think that they can write and publish English texts without [...]
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Great Books in English about Romania; No. 2: Rates of Exchange, by Malcolm Bradbury
Rates of Exchange By Malcolm Bradbury First, a classic communist joke: “Why is Slaka like America?” “Because in America you can criticise America, and in Slaka you can criticise America too.” OK. So it goes without saying that this novel (from which we pinched the joke) by one of Britain’s finest 20th century writers, is [...]
Romania’s anti-Gypsy hackers strike again
According to Romanian tabloid Libertatea, the same hackers responsible for the attack last week on the Daily Telegraph’s website have struck again, this time at the French daily Le Monde. The attack is in response to a French comedian making a rather bad-taste joke about Romanians on national French TV. The hackers are, once again, [...]
Copied from Wikipedia
Apparently, an Amazon.com ‘user review’ of a guidebook we wrote a few years ago claims that parts of the book were ‘lifted from Wikipedia.’ Really? Knowing full well that they were not (we have the original words – and they were original, all god-knows-how-many thousands of them – on a hard drive somewhere), we wondered [...]