9506:Re: Haitian Proverbs (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: E Vedrine <evedrine@hotmail.com>


?Kreyon Bondye pa gen gòm (efaswa)? is usually what I would hear, but we 
also have "pawoli" (dealing with rhetoric, idioms, how a proverb can be 
modified sometimes and be used as a ?popular idiom? which can confuse 
people, in terms of "which" would be the "original proverb") within the 
Kreyol language . But "Kreyol pale Kreyol konprann" [spoken Kreyol is 
understood]: the semantics would be grasped within context. See more on 
?pawoli? at
http://windowsonhaiti.com/bbs/messages/672.html

E.W.Vedrine




>From: aussie_grimel@adam.com.au
>
>
>I thought this proverb was:
>
>Kreyon Bondye pa gen gom = God's pencil has no eraser!
>



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