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Saturday, November 22, 2008

One of the famous buildings in Praha, Průmyslový palác (Industrial palace), a unique secession building which is the icon of the Praha's exhibition ground, has lost its left wing due to a huge fire on October the 16th. For the mayor of Praha Pavel Bém it is a topic to coze on.



My native language, Czech, is very rich language. Unfortunately vast major of people only use a small amount of this richness. The very night the fire struck the mayor Bém was interviewed in the Czech TV about the future of this building. He told that there is the need to renew the building. That's fine. That's great. Such landmark deserve such operation.
What sound bad to me are sentences like:“Budeme se s hasiči bavit o vzniku požáru. Budeme se s historiky bavit o možnostech obnovy“. „Bavit se o“ in Czech means discuss, that's true. More often such term is used for something cozy and I believe that a disaster like the lost of the whole wing of a cultural landmark isn't anything cozy.