From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: proverb (was: New Member Introductory Rant)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:08:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080331080807.GA13852@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080330140349310319.c6bd3265@gmail.com>
Dnia Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:03:49PM -0700, David napisał(a):
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:50:59 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't know the English version of it (there must be one - if anyone
> > knows it, I would be glad to hear it), but we have a nice saying,
> > literally translated as:
> > "Farrier's own mare is always barefoot."
>
>
> (In English it's almost exactly the same, except we usually use the
> shoemaker's children instead of the farrier's mare.)
BTW, in Polish it's similar, although without the children/mare stuff:
"A shoemaker walks barefoot."
>
> David
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Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl)
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-30 8:01 New Member Introductory Rant Corin Royal Drummond
2008-03-30 14:09 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-03-30 14:50 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-03-30 21:03 ` David
2008-03-31 8:08 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2008-03-30 22:56 ` Andrea Valle
2008-03-31 15:33 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-03-31 15:46 ` Andrea Valle
2008-04-01 0:29 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-01 7:24 ` Andrea Valle
2008-04-01 10:17 ` Hans Hagen
2008-03-31 20:23 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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