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In Russian: O vkusakh ne sporjat.--exactly like in German<br><br>In Hebrew it assumed a special proverbial form with a rhyme:<br>`Al ta` am wa-reach ein le-hitwakeach--lit. About the taste and the smell -- not to argue.<br><br>Hayim Sheynin<br><br><b><i>Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling@sil.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="ygrp-text"> <div> </div><div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">Über Geschmack lässt sich nicht streiten (German) which comes close to the Latin
proverb.</span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Fritz Goerling<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg"> <div id="ygrp-msg"> <div id="ygrp-text"> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">It is interesting to note that many “idiomatic phrases’ are translated by other phrases in<o></o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
navy;">foreign languages; e.g., “De gustibus non est disputandum” = Of taste, there is no dispute.<o></o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">To each his own and There’s no accounting for tastes have slightly different connotations<o></o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Chacun a son gout (missing the accents) = Each to his own taste<o></o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">A cada su misma = to each his own (this sounds as if it might have been a translation; however, I do not know which came first.<o></o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Does this close equivalence exist in other Romance and Germanic languages?<o></o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o> </o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Celtic" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Celtic; color: black;">Scott Catledge<o></o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Celtic" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Celtic; color: black;">Professor Emeritus<o></o></span></font><o></o></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font><o></o></div> </div> </div> </div> <!--End group email --></div></div><div></div> </div>
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