#katastrofa

etimologija: saprabolt, je sitna! (<- hehe, ne morem se upreti 😁) Snoj, ki navaja sicer tudi oblike saprlot, saperlot in sapralot, pravi, da je prek bavarske nemščine (sapperlot in sackerlot) izposojeno iz francoskega sacrelotte, ki pa naj bi prišel iz sacre lot — sveta/božja usoda.

Tu postane tečno, ker ne najdem vira, ki bi se z njim strinjal. (To sicer ničesar ne pove, ker gledam poleg Snoja le štiri do pet drugih slovarjev, eden od njih je pa Wiktionary. Akademsko katastrofalno 😔)

Wiktionary, ki svojega vira ne navaja (😥), pravi, da nemški sapperlot pride iz francoskega saperlotte (ki naj bi prišel iz sacredieu, kar je skrajšano iz sacré (nom de) Dieu, "sveto (božje) ime"). Nemškega sackerlot ne prizna (vsaj angleški Wiktionary ne. Nemški ga, ampak ne pove ničesar o etimologiji, tako da nam je neuporaben), prizna pa nizozemski sakkerloot, ki ga malo predrzno tu obravnavam kot ekvivalent, upam, da mi lahko oprostite. Za sakkerloot torej pravi, da naj bi prišel iz francoskega sacrelotte. Začenja koga že boleti glava?

K Nemcem torej! Duden ne pomaga, kar nas ne preseneti, ker ne vem, če etimologije sploh ima. Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (oziroma Wolfgang Pfeifer), kolikor mi uspe brati nemško, tudi loči sapperlot in sackerlot ter jima tudi postavi enaki etimologiji, kot sta v zgornjem odstavku. Se mi zdi. Moja nemščina šepa.

Gremo zdaj k Francozom. Larousse nam ni v pomoč, ampak tega nismo niti pričakovali, samo preverili smo zaradi lepšega. Lahko noč, Larousse, kdaj drugič! Cnrtl je bolje založen, in sicer tudi on obravnava sacrelotte in saperlotte ločeno. Sacrelotte potisne k sacrebleu in sacredieu (mislim, da bi to dobesedno moralo biti "sveti Bog", ampak tu grejo vsi ponavadi korak dlje v sacré nom de Dieu, kot smo že govorili zgoraj). Če kaj pomaga, doda skupinici še sacreblotte, ki jo definira kot varianto od sacrelotte — ali to pomeni, da se moja mini teorija o sacreblotte kot vmesnem koraku (sacredieu -> sacrebleu -> sacreblotte -> sacrelotte) podre? Je šlo iz sacrelotte v sacreblotte? Ali samo ne razumem dobro francoščine, še zlasti ne slovarske francoščine z vsemi njenimi okrajšavami in konvencijami? Iskreno ne vem, ampak izkušnje kažejo, da moje teorije redko držijo, tako da je verjetno res to drugo 😅.

Kakorkoli že, saperlotte (in saprelotte, ampak mislim, da gre tu res samo za črkovanje (predvsem ne morem več, tole delam že kar lepo število ur 😔)) obravnava kot varianto od saperlipopette, ki naj bi bila pa omiljena različica od sapristi, ki pride iz sacristi. Ugotavljam, da v bistvu ne pove, od kod pride sacristi, in da je bila samo moja predpostavka, da je pač iz sacristie (zakristija). Takšne kletvice imajo radi francoski Kanadčani, seveda pa to ne pomeni, da smem kar takole na slepo sklepati ... Cnrtl mi pri etimologiji od sacristi ne pomaga preveč — pravi, da pride iz istega sacer — svet — kot ostale, o katerih danes govorimo.

Kaj je torej končni sklep? Vsekakor bo najbolje, če se odločite sami, kar se tiče mene, je pa nekako tako: Snoj me s sveto usodo ne prepriča preveč, čeprav bi se fonetično lepo izšlo. Samo v tem je problem, da imajo kletvice z verskim elementom res tendenco, da se popačijo, sacre lot bi bilo kar malo preveč lepo 😅. Ubija me misel, da bi bila v nemščino prevzeta sapperlot in sackerlot iz dveh različnih virov, ampak kaj pa vem, na svetu se zgodi vse živo. Naj torej rečem "nekaj v zvezi z nečim, kar je sveto" in nam vsem pustim iti spat.

Today marks 19 years since one of the worst disasters in Poland in recent history.

On January 28th 2006, an exhibition hall collapsed on International Katowice Fair ground between the Silesian cities of Katowice and Chorzów. At the time, a carrier pigeon exhibition was taking place, gathering many enthusiasts of the popular hobby. People were buried under a tangled mass of steel, and exposed to freezing cold, as disaster happened in the middle of winter, when temperatures at night could drop to nearly -20*C.

Rescue efforts began as soon as the first frantic calls reached the emergency centers. Some of them actually came from those who could not get out of the building's ruins; cellular phones were becoming increasingly popular in the 2000s, also allowing the rescuers to find the victims by listening to the phones ringing in their pockets, as their friends and relatives tried to find out their whereabouts.

As the disaster happened in the highly industrialised Upper Silesia, present at the disaster site were not only firefighters and medical crews, but more specialised units such as the Central Mining Rescue Group, trained to search and rescue miners in collapsed coal mines. Unfortunately, the instability of the ruins forced the rescuers to rely on handheld tools, but that did not deter them from venturing down the tight corners of the disaster area, searching for victims. Dogs were brought to sniff the survivors under the rubble and snow, and heavy equipment was used to stabilise the ruins of the hall, or to blow heated air into areas where survivors were expected to be found. The rescue lasted until January 29th, when it became apparent that no one left in the ruins is still alive.

In total, the disaster claimed 65 lives; 55 of them were from Poland, and 10 were foreigners from Czechia, Slovakia, Germany, and one each from Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary. It was the worst disaster in Poland by death toll since the Kabaty air crash in 1987, which killed 183 people (though two events came close - the sinking of MF Jan Heweliusz in 1993 which killed 55, and the 1997 flood which claimed 57 lives), and the worst one so far in the 21st century. Post-mortem examinations showed that not a single victim froze to death in the ruins, and instead all of them were killed at the moment of the collapse. 170 people sustained injuries, including serious head and torso traumas, lacerations and frostbite. Also killed were numerous pigeons, though many escaped their destroyed cages and flew away, and were later found all over the country as they tried to return home. President Lech Kaczyński (who himself would die four years later in the Smolensk air crash which killed 96 people) declared three days of national mourning as a sign of respect to the deceased.

The disaster and rescue efforts, broadcast live on radio and television, once again brought Polish people together, in a nationwide drive to help the victims by any means necessary, most prevalent of which were blood donations and monetary support.

The investigation focused on several possible causes of the disaster: ground sinking as a result of mining in the area, bad weather, and construction faults. In the end, it was found that it was a combination of errors made by the designers and constructors of the exhibition hall, which were further exacerbated by heavy snowfall which occurred that winter. Moreover, it was suspected that the roof might have already been damaged before the disaster, as some of the exhibitors remembered water leaking from the ceiling in certain areas. Several people were brought to justice: owners of Katowice Fair, who failed to properly maintain the building, the main architect for drafting faulty blueprints, and local building inspectors who did not recommend the closure of the hall, despite knowing about the potential risks.

The remnants of the hall were demolished, and a memorial was erected close to where it once stood. It lists 65 names of the victims, and on top of it several brass pigeons are flying up, both as a symbol of the deceased, and as a remembrance of the event during which the disaster struck.

„ I odpryski zwykłej codzienności

usiłuję w lepszy świat

posklejać

Nie chcę, tak jak ty,

popijać kawę i spokojnie

dzień po dniu

umierać. ”

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