Truck and Barter

This is just a humorous aside.

I used to want to be able to say, in as many languages as possible, "Where are the guns for my revolution?" (Please not the order of the possessives. Not "my" guns", but "the" guns. Not "the" revolution, but "my" revolution. I find this part very important.) So far, I've gotten it down in a few tongues.

But I think maybe I should move on to something a little more...me. So, I propose this as the alternative:

"Correlation does not imply causation."

I thought of this, and I've gotten a head start, after reading referrer logs and finding a site that generously linked to an interesting post from Kevin. A site in German.

Nun muß man eingestehen, dass Korrelation keine Kausalität ist. Somit bin ich vorsichtig den Schluß zu ziehen, dass Freiheit und Öffnung gegenüber anderen Ländern zu steigendem Wohlstand führt.

If I remember my college German, and that's a big if, this is saying that freedom/liberty and openness lead to increased prosperity. (NB: That took a lot of time and effort to hammer through my fuzzy banks. I'm not even close to competent to read a newspaper, let alone conversant. I've switched my language interests to Arabic. No mean letters about bad translation, please.)

So, consider that one down (Correlation does not imply causation: dass Korrelation keine Kausalität ist), hundreds more languages to go.

Anyone want to offer others?