A bit of shawi wisdom

shawi yegguma · Nombre de messages: 247 Date d'inscription: 17/11/2004

Metta hallem/t,

1-assa yuker asagniT, adecha ad yaker hafunest.

2-enss bla yaksum, etekred bla yamarwas.

What do you understand from the proverbs? I will give you the translation another time.

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"...When they hate Jews, I am a Jew; when they hate women, I am a woman; when they hate blacks, I am black; when they hate Arabs, I am an Arab." Kateb

shawi yegguma · Nombre de messages: 247 Date d'inscription: 17/11/2004

>1-assa yuker asagniT, adecha ad yaker hafunest.

The one who stole a needle today, will steal a cow tomorrow.

In other words, learning bad behaviour is an evolutionary process. One starts with small things, then graduates to serious stuff.

>2-enss bla yaksum, etekred bla yamarwas.

Don't have meat for dinner and you will wake up debt-free.

In other words, don't buy what you cannot afford. Live within your means.

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"...When they hate Jews, I am a Jew; when they hate women, I am a woman; when they hate blacks, I am black; when they hate Arabs, I am an Arab." Kateb

lysbleu · Nombre de messages: 208 Date d'inscription: 29/10/2004

What a sustained suspense...I was waiting for the translation !
The first one is well known but I love the second one : it has a very elegant wisdom and subtlety flavor in it.

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TWAHECHT EL BLED