Re: OT: Proving the rule (was Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 8, 2004, 20:22 |
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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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