On 16/01/12 12:51, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:47:49PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
>>> The linux audio community currently lives its own life for the most
>>> part, and doesn't make a terrible lot of PR for what it can do. Where
>>> I live we call this "stewing in your own juice" (literal translation).
>> we have the same proverb in german. funny to hear it works in russian,
>> too :)
> The Dutch version would be more like 'frying in your own fat'. :-)
Interesting: in Italian there is "lasciar coucere/bollire nel proprio
brodo" (let someone cook/boil in their own soup/broth) but it has more
of a fatalist meaning as in "I warned him/her not to do it that way but
s/he wouldn't listen so now leave him/her to do it as they like."
Lorenzo.
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