Re: A Search for Exemplary Sentences

From: Alain LaBont\i (alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 18 1998 - 14:02:26 EST


A 08:37 98-11-18 -0800, Michael Everson a écrit :
>Ar 06:46 -0800 1998-11-18, scríobh Alain:
>
>> I recently gave one which I think, says everything [ (; ] :
>>
>> ... car la parole est d'argent, mais le silence est d'or
>> --Jean de la Fontaine
>
>Did de la Fontaine originage this? My Yiddish grammar has:
>
> Redn iz zilbern, shvaygn iz gold.

[Alain] :
When was your grammar published?

Yiddish has got some influences from French too.

La Fontaine was born in 1621 and died in 1695.

Alain LaBonté
Québec



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