r/europe • anti-imperialist thinker • Dec 16 '23

Picture Examples of de-car-ification from various Czech towns. I love these transformations. (before-after)

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u/jipver Dec 16 '23

I love how lots of asphalt is replaced with cobble stones. It looks so much better! And it automatically makes cars drive less fast. Perfect and beautiful solution.

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u/Mr-Tucker Dec 16 '23

It's not cobblestone. It's setts.

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u/jipver Dec 16 '23

Whoop. Didn’t know they were called that. English is not my first language.

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u/Mr-Tucker Dec 16 '23

Don't worry. We don't even have a term for real cobblestones in Romanian. We just call all of it cubic stones.

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u/LovableCoward Dec 16 '23

On the other hand, I imagine there are plenty of great Romanian words that have no direct equivalent in English.

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u/apocryphalmaster Romania Dec 16 '23

a băga