Bad English

Greece, the craddle (sic) of democracy

by Craig Turp May 6, 2010 Media

 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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Bram Stocker’s Dracula

by Craig Turp February 25, 2009 Media

 We never did much rate Bram Stoker’s book Dracula, so we are keen to see if Bram Stocker’s is any better. Oh yes, in a glorious typo moment, according to a TV advert Romanian daily Adevarul is giving away a copy of Bram Stocker’s Dracula tomorrow. And from what we can tell, it looks like [...]

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Sharming, cached fish

by Craig Turp November 5, 2008 Bucharest

 Salvatore Cavallo and Ramona Badescu waiting for you in an elegant and sharming place near the laghe of Herastrau. Italian chefs, italian management and only cached fish (not from fish farms) direct from Mazzara del Vallo (Sicily) and from Terracina vicino (Rome).For more laughs, go here.

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Bucharest Solutions

by Craig Turp October 31, 2008 Bucharest

 A few ideas kicked around by a less than select group of brains over dinner recently. As it’s nearly election time, here are our policies for a happier Bucharest, a happier Romania… Drivers must obey the law Let’s get the most revolutionary aspect of our manifesto off the drawing board early on: We propose that [...]

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We Love English. Not.

by Craig Turp October 15, 2008 Media

 More bad English. Local television station Prima TV, whose one decent programme, Cronica Carcotasilor, is not as half as good as it once was (and which is in fact a rip-off of the Canale 5 show Striscia la notizie) recently launched its Autumn schedules, with the fantastic slogan, in English, We Love. The slogan We [...]

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Class Living perhaps, but not Class English

by Craig Turp October 9, 2008 Media

 This week’s radio silence was caused by a little jaunt we had to take to Fagaras, that most splendid part of the country and one of the many reasons that we remain fans of Romania, if not fans of Bucharest. Anyway, stuck in the interminable traffic jam that is the DN1 around Baneasa Airport, we [...]

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Crosul Petrom

by Craig Turp September 12, 2008 Bucharest

 Crosul. It’s one of those stupid ‘borrowed then badly adapted’ words which Romanians use because they think it sounds English. This in turn implies that they are more intelligent than other Romanians who may not understand what they mean. Actually, people using words like cros just look stupid because in English its use is ludicrous. [...]

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