Re: reading (was French and German (jara: An introduction))
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 19:32 |
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In a message dated 2003:06:09 02:44:40 PM, Mathias (takatunu@FREE.FR) writes:
>"One man's feast is another man's poison."
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>In Pisina-Pirunga:
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>Kutasu yu kitari kumata a takusa kitari kuwanungu.
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>Meat of person certain is poison person un-same.
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>"One man's meat is another man's poison."
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>(pun on kutasu/takusa)
::claps hands:: Delightful. Bravo... I like that pun.
Besides toooo much red meat _is_ poison!
"Excess is excrement. Excrement retained in the body is poison." - Ursula
Le Guin
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