Friday, January 11, 2013

Haitian Proverbs Galore!


One of my Christmas gifts this year was a book called “Hidden Meanings” by Wally Turnbull. It’s a book filled with over 1,200 Haitian proverbs! I don’t believe I’ll be running out of proverbs to share any time soon. J The following one gave me a good laugh over the mental image of a turkey laughing:

y'ap plimen poul kodenn pa ri.

“When the chicken is being plucked, the turkey doesn’t laugh.” Don’t laugh at others’ misfortune, for it could happen to you, too.

2 comments:

Alexis Wassenberg said...

Seeing as my family has had some experience in "dressing" chickens and turkeys, this gave me a nice laugh! :) Thanks Bianca!

Joyfully His,
Alexis

7 Eagles said...

I'm glad the post gave you a laugh, Alexis! :-) It's a pretty funny proverb.

~Bianca