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From: rmt51@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Slavic, IBM commercials
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:18:00 GMT
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In article <3fea3h$6qc@scratchy.reed.edu>,
PCP - Piotr C. Proszynski <pproszyn@reed.edu> wrote:
>In article <3f85im$b1t@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
>Marek Konski <Marek1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>...that Rick Turkel wrote:
>>>Rich or poor, it's good to have money.  Ko rano rani | u jamu pada.
>>
>>right
>>
>>Kto rano wstaje temu Pan Bo'g daje.
>
>No no no! Kto rano wstaje ten sam w nie wpada! If that's not very
>transparent, consider "Kto dolki kopie temu Pan Bo'g daje".
>
>P.
>--
>pproszyn@reed.edu          The sun is in the heart, and I am sending
>  CAVEAT LECTOR                                    light and warmth   -HNIA-

	Well, you're both right!

	The sentence at the end of my .signature file is actually a combination
of two Croatian folk sayings.  A friend of mine who grew up in Zagreb told me
that when she was a child they used to mix up the beginnings and ends of such
aphorisms for humorous effect.  So from "Ko pod drugim jamu kopa, u nju pada"
(He who digs a hole under another falls into it himself) and "Ko rano rani,
dvije srec'e grabi" (He who rises early grabs twice the happiness, i.e., the
early bird catches the worm), we get "Ko rano rani, u jamu pada" (He who rises
early falls into a pit) and "Ko pod drugim jamu kopa, dvije srec'e grabi" (He
who digs a hole under someone else grabs twice the happiness).  The latter was
a little too mean-spirited for my taste, but since I'm not a morning person the
former was perfect for me.
-- 
Rick Turkel         (___  _____  _  _  _  _  __     _  ___   _   _  _  ___
rturkel@freenet.columbus)oh.us|   |  \  )  |/  \     |    |   |   \__)    |
rturkel@cas.org        /      |  _| __)/   | ___)    | ___|_  |  _(  \    |
Rich or poor, it's good to have money.  Ko rano rani | u jamu pada.
