Comments on: Why shopping in Romania (still) sucks

By: someone-else

someone-else — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:13:14 +0000

@someone – I believe you haven’t read the rest of the posts on this blog. I am 100% sure you will understand that the target audience is not just Romania.

If you believe that using English in a blog is “fashionable” then I am pretty sure you’re not part of the target of this blog. Yes, there are some entries related to Romanian topics, like the one above. However, I believe that for consistency’s sake it would be better to stick to a single language.

This blog is mostly about tech tips and I believe it makes a lot of sense to provide the explanation of your solutions in English. Based on Google search, there were many times when I ran into technical advices written for example in Spanish, Danish or Russian – and it’s frustrating. I believe that if you allocate a lot of energy in searching and documenting these solutions, you should have the common sense and make it available to as many people as possible – not just the ones in your district.

In addition, you should know that the author of this blog CAN speak English. And I believe his level of English is good enough for most of the content here which is 90% tech stuff.

As a conclusion, the term “fashionable” could be applied here if we were talking about the hi5 profile or MySpace page of some brain-dead “manelist” – yeah that’s Romanian, go look it up. This blog is written by a person with a PhD (or at least about to get his PhD AFAIK), so I believe that your comment is completely out of the scope of the content and is merely an instigation to flame war.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:44:46 +0000

I wrote (mostly) for the people interested to find a quick solution.
I know, my English is not like my Romanian, but the syntax and the linux commands are the same in every language.
I use to “read” Russian and Chinese forums…

As many other Romanians, I continuously improve my language skills. It’s not so easy as it was for you, maybe, but we are giving our best to be competitive.

By: someone

someone — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:16:55 +0000

Here’s one thing I don’t get about you people. Why in the world do you have to create an English blog, if you can’t speak english ?? I mean, not fluent enough. Can’t you just create a one in Romanian ? Which, accidentally, of course, happens to be your native language ? Is it so fashionable nowadays to have an English blog ? Just had to say that Sorry for the possible inconveniences. And I hope you fully understood my post )

By: Cosmin Marginean

Cosmin Marginean — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:18:57 +0000

In “romanian shop manager thinking” hiring more people just doesn’t make sense, especially in Cluj-Napoca. This would result only in higher costs. Why in the world would he do that? If there are 15 people sitting in a line you don’t have a selling problem, no do you? If the market and the demand are so good, you don’t really need to improve this section, is it? So what if they wait four decades to buy a t-shirt? They do buy it after all don’t they? So it’s not just a management problem here. We are the morons that never say “fuck it, I’m gonna shop somewhere else instead of waiting at this line”. Aaah, right! When in Cluj, somewhere else doesn’t exist …