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bktheirregular ([personal profile] bktheirregular) wrote2006-08-09 12:55 pm
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Oddities

So, crossing languages and alphabets can have interesting effects. Like descriptions of a temporary order from a court, which somehow got translated as a "temporal court order", which suggests that the Greek courts have actually set up a bureaucracy to deal with time travel, and isn't that pretty much what caused the entire Star Trek franchise to implode? Seriously, it was getting to where every third week or so they were dealing with time travel, and ... this rant could go on for hours, and I'm on the clock here, so, best let it pass.

Then there's the law I've been learning on European Union business securities, which involved something called a "Committee of Wise Men".

Stipulate the groan, the face in the palm, the head thumping against the desk. Someone try and convince me that a "Committee of Wise Men" isn't a disaster just looking for a place and time to happen...