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Re: OT: Proving the rule (was Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, January 8, 2004, 20:22
En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen :


>"De uitzondering, die de regel bevestigt". Confirm and nothing else!
Since in so many different languages it's "confirm" rather than "prove" (IIRC so it is in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese - Jan, what about Polish? and maybe Russian? -), I'd rather think that the use of "prove" in the English expression is the exception rather than the rule here. And as I said before, "confirm" makes much more sense than "prove" anyway (the correct origin of the expression indeed maps quite well my description with "confirm"). Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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