Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

En réponse à jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>:

>
> Yeah, I know.  There's no accounting for taste.
>
> Which, BTW, would be an interesting idiom translation project.  How do
> you
> express the idea given by the English phrase "There's no accounting
> for
> taste" in your conlangs or various natlangs?  I'll come back with the
> Yivríndil later, but the Romanian is:
>
> Nu-i frumos ce-i frumos, e frumos ce-mi place.
> Literal: "What's beautiful isn't beautiful, what's beautiful is what I
> like."
>
>
In French, we say: "Des goûts et des couleurs on ne discute pas."
Litterally: "you don't discuss about tastes and colours."
But usually the saying is shortened to "Les goûts et les couleurs..." followed
by a pause or a whisper :) .

I have to think of a Narbonósc version...

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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