Thursday, April 19, 2007

A Moldovan village on-line

Alexandru Culiuc has been blogging about the Webtop online awards competition in Moldova. I decided to check out the list of nominees and found one - Satul Tarnova, or Village of Tarnova, which has an outstanding website, especially for a hamlet of just 2105 people. What was remarkable about it to me was that the whole website exists in English as well as in Romanian, although the translation is better on some pages than others. To the site's organizers - well done!

I recommend the photo album, which includes this inspirational poster, presumably from the local school:

"If you know books, you have four eyes"
[Original image source]

An alternate translation - along with other Romanian proverbs - is here. Note the funny-looking hat, one of those "traditional" pieces of attire that shows up more in cartoons, books, and souvenirs than in real life.

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