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Συμφωνώ. 3 or 4 or my posts were responses to cougr, you and one was to Despina, and I was merely carrying on with the discussion. I agreed with your post #16 and added that the syntax was also a problem. And I wasn't making alternative suggestions. I was wondering if it could/would have been...

I hate to leave threads dangling in the air. The discussion finishes when I deem it to be finished. I may end up soliloquising, but that's fine.. You have to ride all the bumps (my motto) - and I'm always up for the ride. ;-) Edit: I think I've identified the issues in #17 ... even if I haven't...

Μας δυσκολεύει εδώ και η σύνταξη (δεν είναι μόνο η μετάφραση και η "παιδική ασθένεια"). ... αν μπορούσαμε να ξεφύγουμε τη «παιδική ασθένεια»/infantile disease ... and I'm not saying this is accurate - just that, syntactically, something like this would have made more sense: these tendencies are...

That's what I initially thought too, cougr - but, I began to see it the other way. Despina might be able to shed some light (either way). I should stop at the obvious. Maybe I should have searched it further ... (and not relied on just the opening post)? :confused: I just spotted this ...

Ναι, οι παιδικές ασθένειες δεν παύουν να είναι "αρρώστιες." Αλλά, χρησιμοποιείται μεταφορικά εδώ, και ως τούτο, η ιδια μεταφορική εννοια εκφράζεται, νομίζω -- αρχικά προβλήματα, αρχικές δυσχέρειες. "teething problems" is probably what an english-speaking Lenin would have called them/it, I...

And I should add ... (to my post #10, above). teething problems noun [ plural ] UK, US (also teething troubles) problems connected with a new product, or problems at the beginning of a process or activity: Teething problems with a new operations system adversely affected the retailer's...

Αν ο Λένιν ήταν αγγλόφωνος, αναρωτιέμαι αν θα είχε επιλέξει εδώ το "teething" και το "geriatric"; ... these tendencies are not manifested in an ideal form, they have their problems, "teething" as Lenin would call them, "geriatric" from our perspective, today? or maybe .... (just a wild...

... fiscal fudging. "δημοσιονομικές αλχημείες" (anepipsogos was spot on)

As long as we've covered all the possibilities. And, Palavra might be on the ball (no pun intented) with "fiscal dribbling." It's just that ... "pedalling fiscal obligations into the future" from nickel's #16 sounded to me very much like "kicking the fiscal can down the road" which is an...

kicking the fiscal can down the road As just another possibility here for "fiscal pedalling" (I'm not insisting, of course). We should examine all the possibilities, anyway. kicking something down the road = removing something (an immediate problem) that should be dealt with now, so as to deal...

Now I'm thinking "pedalling" = "kicking the (fiscal) can down the road." I think I'll call it a night.

I'm probably overthinking this as usual ... but there might be another way of looking at this? ... αυτό το "pedalling" ίσως είναι σαν να λέμε "playing footsie?" So, the government is engaged in fiscal pedalling = the government (or treasury) is playing fiscal footsie (with the banks)? It's...

Reminds me of the"garden-path sentence" ... here we're being led down the fiscal garden path. δημοσιονομική παραπλάνηση (leaving the metaphors aside);

Scary ... Ghost Guns.

This is where the problem started, someone must have mixed the two.

Should they? :unsure: