<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I know a little Russian, but not enough. I have two friends, one American who is fluent, and one born in Russia who is now naturalized. The American runs a lovely blog, "language hat". I asked them. Neither he nor my Russian friend--Boris, of course--say that there is a Russian equivalent, because healthy is not the Russian way. The best that Stephen came up with is:<div><br></div><div>Кто не курит и не пьет, тот здоровеньким помрет</div><div><br></div><div>Who doesn't smoke and drink will die of healthiness.</div><div><br></div><div>But they're both still thinking about it...</div><div><br></div><div>David Derbes</div><div>U of Chicago Laboratory Schools</div><div><br><div><div>On May 28, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Richard Koch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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On May 25, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Themis Matsoukas <<a href="mailto:tmatsoukas@icloud.com">tmatsoukas@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I was going through the material in Applications/TeX and found this example in file LuaTeX.tex
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> ein Apfel ein Tag hält den Doktor weg\\<br>
> ένα μήλο ημερησίως κρατά το γιατρό μακριά\\<br>
> яблоко день держит доктора отсутствующе<br>
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> While the Greek example is a correct literal (google?) translation of "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", it is in a stiff language ("an apple daily holds the doctor afar") that would likely give away a person as a foreigner. As it happens, there is
a version of this saying in colloquial Greek that rhymes and goes <br>
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> "ένα μήλο την ημέρα τον γιατρό τον κάνει πέρα"<br>
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> If you say this in Greece, you will seamlessly blend with the locals. So please navigate to that file and make the correction :)<br>
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> Themis<br>
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This discussion reminds me of a book review by Andre Weil of a biography of<br>
Fermat. Weil criticizes the author's historical accuracy, his writing style, his<br>
discussion of mathematics. Then he criticizes his translation of French sources<br>
and finally his translation of Latin sources.<br>
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…what a high class mailing list<br>
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It is the last possible day to modify the above source document for MacTeX-2013. <br>
It seems the German and Greek should be<br>
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"Ein Apfel am Tag den Doktor erspart."<br>
"ένα μήλο την ημέρα τον γιατρό τον κάνει πέρα"<br>
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Could someone improve the Russian? I enjoyed the joke Volodya Shavrukov made<br>
out of the discussion.<br>
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Dick Koch<br>
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