Trillion dollar bash

The financial crisis has led to such number inflation that yesterday's million is today's trillion. Or is it "bilion"? Or "thousand billion"? It depends on which language you speak. A trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 for an American, sometimes 1,000,000,000,000,000 for a Czech (although "tisíc bilionů" or "biliarda" is correct) and 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 for a German. This can lead to lots of confusion. Ivana Trump, for example, told Czech TV, in Czech, that a friend of hers has lost a "bilion" crowns in the crisis. A "bilion" in Czech is a "trillion" in English, and not even The Donald has that much money to lose. At the same time, some Czechs who watch too much CNBC are now speaking of "triliony" in Czech, when they really mean "biliony" (trillions). The trillion-dollar question is: When will the G20 leaders do something useful and bring some global regulation to this numerical g000ulash? [Czech Republic goulash]