Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 18:24:38 12/23/03
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On December 23, 2003 at 12:14:31, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>On December 23, 2003 at 11:36:48, Benny Antonsson wrote:
>
>>On December 23, 2003 at 09:12:18, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
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>>>On December 23, 2003 at 08:41:07, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ruffian lost to comet in a long game????????
>>>
>>>Yes, why not !
>>>
>>>There is a German saying:
>>>"Even a blind chicken will find a corn occasionally"
>>>("Auch ein blindes Huhn find mal ein Korn").
>>>
>>>Uli
>>
>>And in swedish: Även en blind höna kan finna ett korn.
>
>Hmm, I could understand/guess this sentence even without translation.
>Perhaps it would be rather easy to learn Svedish.
>
>Isn't it peculiar that so many sayings are common in different languages. It's
>perhaps an indications that these sayings are real old.
And in Serbian: Even a blind hen can find a grain of corn (The English variant
is so similar to the Swedish one: Även en blind höna kan finna ett korn.)
(Serbian: "Cak i corava koka neko zrno nadje". Yes, most of the Indo-European
languages have a common core of wisdom, which is conceptual and usually based on
metaphors. As metaphor do not belong to any language in particular but
transcend them that means that it should be rather easy to find lots and lots of
examples of similar or identical sayings and proverbs (the inventory of folk
wisdom) in different languages. I am currently writing a book on the subject
:-) and I find it really fascinating (both from the point of view of cognitive
psychology = deep structure of language; and the structure of language = surface
manifestations of locally implemented parameters). Of course, the underlying
conceptual scheme, which appears to be more or less universal, is the real
topic.
Thus Kant, when talking about his categories, was right -- we simply sift
through our percepts and mold them as much as we can (but the elbow room for
modification is rather scanty due to already harnassed and constrained human
perception.)
Wish you a successful tournament with the new Comet.
Djordje
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