26041: Re: Pichard (reply to 26024): SFclinics: (ask) Can anyone translate this ? (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: mercedes pichard <mercedespichard@earthlink.net>

My Haitian friend translated this proverb first in French, "Avec de la 
patience, on peut tout faire".  [With patience we can do anything/everything.]

In Creole it does indeed say that  'With patience we can see the intestines of 
the ant'.    Lovely visual!

My Haitian friend proceeded to pretend for me -- with a drawing that he made on 
paper to illustrate this proverb -- to dissect the tiny ant's body that he had 
drawn, to find the ant's "tummy" [vant / trip] with his careful "patience" and 
even to see what's "inside" the ant's interior.   He said that this proverb 
gives us a lesson in using one's patience to achieve something or to find out 
something.

Regards to the list members,

Mercedes


mercedespichard@earthlink.net





----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Corbett" <corbetre@webster.edu>
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Subject: 26024: SFclinics: (ask) Can anyone translate this ? (fwd)


> From: SFclinics1@aol.com
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> " Ak pasians na we trip fwoumi"