Re: The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

--- Elliott Lash <erelion12@...> wrote:

> --- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> wrote:
>
> > Petit à petit, l'oiseau fait son nid.
> > Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières.
> >
> >
>
> I thought that the french was:
>  Petit à petit, l'oiseau fait son PROPRE nid.
Nono, no need for "propre" (its "own" nest). And it's
even much better as I quoted, because it sounds like a
small poem (there are rhymes, and the number of
syllables is 5 in both parts of the sentence:

1    2    3    4   5
Pe   tit  à    pe  tI(t)
L'oi seau fait son nI(d)



=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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