[Lexicog] Re: idiomatic phrases; was Fuzzy Phrasal Typology

[Scott]

It is interesting to note that many "idiomatic phrases' are translated by
other phrases in

foreign languages; e.g., "De gustibus non est disputandum"  = Of taste,
there is no dispute.

To each his own and There's no accounting for tastes have slightly different
connotations

Chacun a son gout (missing the accents)  =  Each to his own taste

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.

Does this close equivalence exist in other Romance and Germanic languages?

 

Scott Catledge

Professor Emeritus

 

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