Reminds me of a Yoruba proverb about "what the trees say when the
axe comes into the forest: 'Remember, the handle is one of us.'"
Candice
Joe Duemer wrote:
<This reminds me of Wittgenstein's remark (in _Culture & Value_?)
that if a lion could speak we wouldn't be able to understand him.>
Susanne Massey wrote:
<There is a funny proverb which possibly relates to what you just
said: "It is silly to act as a "Neapolitan" when in the company of
real Neapolitans". Anyhow, I never came across one of them...>
Mark Weiss wrote:
<What's the old saying, that "a language is a dialect with an army"?>
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