[Scummvm-devel] The Situation (omnious music..)
M. Uli Kusterer
Witness.of.TeachText at gmx.net
Thu May 6 04:39:05 CEST 2004
At 12:18 Uhr +0200 06.05.2004, Max Horn wrote:
>WE have a proverb in German "Wahret den Anfängen" ("Beware the
>beginning" Ugh, very bad translation), which means that sometimes
>you should not let something small slip through, because if you do,
>you just made a small opening, through which something bigger slips
>through. Which widens the opening. Rinse and repeat. We germans have
>bad experiences with that, historically...
Ummm... what would "Wahret" mean? Do you mean "Wehret den Anfängen"?
And if you do, that's actually a Latin proverb, originally:
"Principiis obsta!" (Ovid, Remedia amoris).
I'll stay out of the rest of the discussion because I really have no
clue what this is all about ... :-)
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