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Re: Get-To-Know Translation Exercise

--- In romanceconlang@y..., Padraic Brown <elemtilas@y...> wrote:

> fas peryn omen c' yng ach h-yst yn caleor peryn ndia;
> enffoge yn omen ach h-yst yn caleor per la gouitha.

Make for a man some fire and he is warm for a day;
Ignite a man and he is warm for life.

Pretty macabre if you ask me.  I wonder why the saying
is about a generic man rather than a Zawzen.  ;-)


-- Christian Thalmann