Nedeľa, január 21, 2007

Internacional Konference

Slovak politicians seek to find the best solutions for nuclear energy policy balancing needs of development with your concerns relating of the security and safety. But will there be understanding after the finding of it?

Of course, this has turned up in lots of other places, like Juraj Javorsky's blog, where I first saw it (while finding out why my bank is a bag of shite) and of course DBT was faster onto teh viral video bandwagon than me.

OK, so as not to be just another viral time waster, I do have one tiny original point to add to the excellent background and comments given above: seeing Jahnatek struggling through his invitation at the end of this reminds me of why I gave up teaching English. The minister is obviously a tough guy in his field and wrestles energy monopolies before breakfast, but when he has to speak in English he looks like a frightened rabbit and at the end he gives that "Did I do OK, can I have a sweetie" sort of smile like the whole experience carried him back to infant school. It's humiliating. Even worse is the amount of pompous show-offery that big boss English students try to bury you in (endless lists of new gadgets they got, VIPs they met, exotic locations of holidays and business trips) to make up for the humiliation they suffered by being forced to express themselves in a barbarous tongue.

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