Money problems are plain to see, even if you’re not German
By Paul Smith
The Germans may have precisely no sense of humour and spend all day loafing about in lederhosen* but they’re nothing if not precise in their reporting of the global economic crisis. Witness, for example, one national newspaper’s acute summation of the troubles:
It translates loosely into English as The global bank system staggers although it seems much more meaningful in its native tongue.
* rampant stereotyping ahoy, captain
feral trolley of the week
maybe we should instill some german into our language
‘madoff wankt out of court . .’ . . .
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