Differences of quotations and proverbs. Vaisov toxtarbek batirbaevich

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: According to David Shariatmadari , proverbs are strange. They seem to exist outside of daily life, representing common sense that has passed from one generation to the next since time immemorial. They don’t follow fashion or incorporate the latest linguistic tics. Who first said the words “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”? It sounds like a stupid question.

But, think about it: when was the phrase “You can’t judge a book by its cover” coined? At a time when books had covers, and that’s has only been the case for a few hundred years. As paremiologist Wolfgang Mieder writes, “Proverbs ... do not fall from the sky, and neither are they products of the mythical soul of the folk.” In fact, they get disseminated like any other cultural artefact. Many western proverbs, for example, have their roots in classical literature. Latin proverbs were used in translation exercises, a practice which drummed them into the minds of students, who then took them out into the world. That’s the reason equivalents of “There’s no smoke without fire” exist in 54 European languages – not because that’s the natural metaphor for a universal human experience, but because they have the same source.


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