I start the radio, France Info, host is interviewing a woman ans says “there’s international coverage because there are so many tourists in Lisbon”.
A bit unsensitive but whatever.I missed the beginning so I look it up, and the first article is France Info again: “18 deaths, no French victims”
Specifying because your fellow citizens are part of the victims is one thing, but just saying there aren’t feels chauvinistic.
welcome to western world.
Very sad. Let’s just hope that this was just a tragic accident and not something that could have been prevented by proper maintenance.
I think that is a bit contradictorary. Unless there is an earthquake or other mayor event, technical systems should not fail under proper maintenance. Especially if the system has been operated since more than a hundred years now.
That realistically only leaves inadequate maintenance or sabotage. Both aren’t “tragic accidents”.
It’s so interesting how you go from never even having seen a word before to it popping up in multiple places. I just learned about funiculars like two weeks ago thanks to this YouTube video about diagonal elevators in video games https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2oELc61XHE
Yeah it’s the Big funicular™ conspiracy.
The same thing happens to me with various things, roughly at a pace of 2-ish per year. It’s always weird. Like, apparently this thing has been common since the seventies, but somehow I stumbled about it only now and now I keep encountering it all the damn time!
I guess it’s a combination of your interests having changed a tiny little bit and your brain having ignored the unknown word as irrelevant until you learn about it. If you don’t believe, watch this short video and you will get what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
It annoys me that my human brain works like this. It means I cannot really trust it.
Taking the fun out of funicular
