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by stavros 776 days ago
We have a saying for that in Greek: Ουδέν μονιμότερον του προσωρινού

"Nothing more permanent than the temporary"

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In Norwegian we have the (made up, but widespread) word 'Permasorisk' (a mangling of permanent and provisorisk) to describe a solution which is by no means meant to be permanent, but solves the original problem well enough that there no longer is a need for the permanent solution...