Re: OT: Proving the rule (was Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 20:03 |
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At 15:26 7.1.2004, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>The expression is 'the exception that proves the rule', and harkens back
>to an older meaning of 'prove' and 'proof' of 'test'. Though along with
>the changed definition of 'prove', the saying's been misanalysed as
>meaning what you said.
>
>Strange. In French the saying has always been "l'exception qui confirme la
>règle", never *"qui prouve la règle".
In Swedish it is _undantaget som bekräftar regeln_,
and _bekräfta_ means 'confirm and nothing else.
What's the Dutch BTW?
/BP 8^)
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