Re: reading (was French and German (jara: An introduction))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 8, 2003, 10:42 |
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At 02:26 8.6.2003 +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > > > "One man's feast is another man's poison."
> > >
> > > De een z'n dood is de ander z'n brood. :-)
> >
> > Does that translate literally the same way? If not, what's the literal
> > translation?
>
>No, not literally. It's
> 'One person's death is the bread of another.'
Same as in Swedish:
"Den enes död den andres bröd"
/BP 8^)
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