International Relations

We had some translations done at the labour camp I laughingly call work a while back and I happened to notice the phrase for "memory buffer overrun" in french.

It is "dépassement de tampon mémoire".

I had a quick look and checked the German - rolling in at a hefty "Gedächtnispufferüberschuß"

This is why the french lose wars. You can't mount an organised guerilla defence against an invading force shouting out phrases about tampons.

Your only real hope is that some nice German storm troopers appear to back you up, screaming things like "Gedächtnispufferüberschuß. Schnell bitte!. Das Kapitan ist einen Reichstagfuhrer!", waving 20 foot long machine guns with 30 foot bayonets and bleeding from the eyes due to their death-laser implants overheating.

Don't get me wrong, I've no soft spot for the germans - you just have to respect the way their language reeks of badly concealed violence. Plotting the next world war would only take them three or four words. Orders to nip over the border into Poland and take up defensive positions around Warsaw's town square with 20mm howitzers would take mere seconds.

Be prepared, I say.