From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 03 03:57:55 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MXvEo-0004KI-RO for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:57:55 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MXvEl-0004JN-5j for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:57:54 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090803105744140.DFVN24863@cdptpa-omta03.mail.rr.com> for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:57:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38989BCC4 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:57:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Proverbs and sayings Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:57:36 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <200908030033.21511.phma@phma.optus.nu> <5715b9300908022158y5fa402a6n9fb152e95e644e02@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5715b9300908022158y5fa402a6n9fb152e95e644e02@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908030657.38719.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 15853 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Monday 03 August 2009 00:58:32 Luke Bergen wrote: > I don't know about the first one, but the second one reminds me of "a bird > in the hand is worth two in the bush". amirite? Yep. The other one is one I first encountered in French, but it came from Turkish. > how about: > > ko na danfu lo bebna tai tu'a ri Proverbs 26:4. I think you mean "spuda". Can you explain the two apparently contradictory verses? Pierre To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.