Amid all the scandal around the World Bank boss, Paul Wolfowitz and his (required/demanded/expected, by most) would or would not-be resignation, here’s a very recent leaked memo from him to his staff (Ken Rogoff has been rather careless and leaked it to the press :-)).
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New Blog Contest: Best Blog Entry on Inter-Ethnical Matters in Transylvania
As announced, I restate below the second part of the my previous post. Looking forward for a big number of enthusiastic participants!
Sebi Buhai (in collaboration with Dan, Lolka and Tihi, my colleagues from PhoenixTransylvania, who do not yet know about this, but I am sure will have nothing against it 🙂 ) is launching a new (smaller scale) blog contest.
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Popularity is not at all something I am after (though I could start considering my running for the Romanian Presidency in the future- after all, so far, all you need for that is to be very popular:-)), as I immediately made clear when I was nominated to this “Clujblogfest”, a blog “competition” in my native city, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Dan indica (si comenteaza excelent) pe blogul lui articolul, vechi de cativa ani buni, “Scrisoare catre prietenii mei romani“, al lui Tamás Gáspár Miklós. Desigur unele lucruri s-au schimbat din 2000 si pana acum, intre timp am mai aflat lucruri noi etc., → Read more
Traducatori, analisti, profesionisti. De Romania
Citesc pe hotnews un post al lui Emil Stoica. Bun, omul are o initiativa binevenita aducand in atentia publicului profesionalismul traducatorilor de la Antena 3 (btw, couldn’t care less about the latter; nu cred ca am urmarit vreodata Antena 3, whatever that is…) si comentariile sale sunt pertinente, desi cam “pierde” si ‘mnealui pe drum parti esentiale si mai scoate din context pe ici pe colo (iarasi prin/din partile esentiale…), desi contextul da mai mult decat culoare in cazul de fata… Si nu ca asta ar fi hiba majora, dar- crucial- cade dumnealui insusi in acelasi pacat al traducatorilor mioritici (si stiind foarte bine despre ce e vorba, e dublu vinovat); nimic extraordinar in Romania: “analistii” nostri “analizeaza” si “traduc” (citeste “va traduc”) fara a indica sursa (si asta e valabil dincolo de exemplul din context; de multe ori putem vorbi chiar de plagiat), insultandu-i, la urma urmei, pe cititori.
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