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The cobbler's children go barefoot

by Korsivo, December 26, 2013

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Language: English

Korsivo (User's profile) December 26, 2013, 8:19:18 PM

I was wondering if such a saying exists in Esperanto.

In English: "The cobbler's children go barefoot"

In French: "C'est le cordonnier qui est le plus mal chaussé"

In Venetian dialect: "El scarpero ga sempre le scarpe rote"

michaleo (User's profile) December 26, 2013, 8:37:30 PM

Korsivo:I was wondering if such a saying exists in Esperanto.

In English: "The cobbler's children go barefoot"

In French: "C'est le cordonnier qui est le plus mal chaussé"

In Venetian dialect: "El scarpero ga sempre le scarpe rote"
In Polish we say Szewc bez butów chodzi (A cobbler goes without shoes) In the Proverbaro I found something similar - Ĉe botisto la ŝuo estas ĉiam kun truo.

robbkvasnak (User's profile) December 26, 2013, 9:23:20 PM

In the USA the word "cobbler" hardly is known any more. There is no corresponding saying in US English as far as I know. Maybe something like:"The geek's parents have the worst software", hahaha

bartlett22183 (User's profile) December 26, 2013, 9:51:24 PM

Maybe it's just because of my age, but here in the USA I have long known the sentence, "The cobbler's children have no shoes." (And I certainly well know "cobbler." )

Korsivo (User's profile) December 26, 2013, 11:06:51 PM

The geek's parents have the worst software", hahaha[/quote]Or, more to the point, can you say: "Bill Gates has Windows 98 in his laptop"?

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