I tend to tut-tut when do-gooders determine that conventional language use must be changed to avoid upsetting people. I should no longer allowed to select from black or white coffee, for example, in some people’s eyes.
Well, I now need to apply these people’s approach to my own work.
… and loves it!
Of course, the newspaper is written in English. But what brilliant English it is!
I like to think that I’m not the world’s worst speaker of foreign languages. I might even allow myself to claim to be ‘advanced’ in a couple of them.
But there’s no way that I even approach the level of the contributors to The Slovak Spectator.
Check this out for an opening paragraph in a story over the sacking of a cabinet minister:
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