[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Sayings and Tales

Stephen H Karlson ta0shk1 at corn.cso.niu.edu
Tue Sep 7 13:04:17 PDT 2004


Denn los?  Sounds like a variant of the old-dog-new-tricks ...

But I have some chess trophies from my 20s, and some sailing trophies from
my 40s, as counterexamples.

Is there a counter-proverb for each proverb in German, as there is in
English?

> Was Haenschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmer mehr
>
> What Hansy hasn't learned, Hans will never learn.

Stephen Karlson               skarlson at niu.edu                 *-- 154393



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