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

[Fritz Goerling]

Über Geschmack lässt sich nicht streiten (German) which comes close to the
Latin proverb.

 

Fritz Goerling

 

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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