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HOW COULD WE TRANSLATE THESE EXCELLENT TURKISH PROVERBS INTO ENGLISH?
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10.       lady in red
6947 posts 		 22 Jun 2008 Sun 07:26 pm

Quoting sonunda:

Quoting Avalon:

El elden üstündür -One hand may be superior to another. One should not assume no one else can do better.



So-'no one is indispensable'??

Maybe number 7 is 'good fences make good neighbours'



No 7 possibly 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder'?

11.       sonunda
5004 posts 		 22 Jun 2008 Sun 07:32 pm

Honestly though I've translated the phrases into English but they don't seem to say the things we would say.
Number 5 might be a long winded way of saying 'silence is golden'

12.       sonunda
5004 posts 		 22 Jun 2008 Sun 08:09 pm

Quoting Deli_kizin:

I wonder if the second refers to a Dutch one, that says 'Many hands make an easy job'. i.e. if many people work together, it's not as hard as when you would do it alone.

But I dont know if there is an English equivalent to that.




This is 'two heads are better than one'according to one source or 'it takes two to tango' from another.
(Lit-it takes two hands to make a noise)

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