Translation - Swedish-English - Som man känner sig själv, känner man andra.

Ok, I see ...you are forgiven.

lenab, what is the purpose of this translation? Are you looking for a proverb that means approximately the same thing in English, or are you looking for an explanation of the meaning in English?

I've cancelled the poll. I think it's clear that as a word-for-word translation, it is correct. Now the question is only how to say this in English such that an English-speaking reader would understand it.

I agree with you Kafetzou.

I just can't find an accurate proverb in English.
Let's think for a little longer.

Hm ...I'm the requester kafetzou, and I am looking for a proverb.

Hi Pia,
Perhaps not exactly a proverb, but a quote.

Something like:
"People judge the others by their own standards"

Hm, I wish that I knew if that is right Lilian, I can't tell, sorry. But if that is the same meaning as lenabs translation, YES!

I'm looking for a similar "saying", (not word by word) with the same meaning as my request. I don't think that it matter if it is a proverb or a quote.

Actually the equivalent was the one I wrote first. I looked it up in my comprehensive Swedish-English dictionary. There it was translated as a phrase. : "One judges others by oneself", but there were objections to that, so I translated it word by word. I guess an English speaking person would understand both.

Hi Pia - sorry - I got mixed up.

Did anybody see my suggestion above at 8 July 2008 17:43?

lenab, my whole point here is that an English-speaking person would NOT understand the translation as it now stands - it would need further explanation. I actually think what you just wrote (I don't remember seeing that when you first did the translation) would actually be more easily understood.

Yes, I guess that one has the same meaning. I'll go for that one!

Which one, lenab? "It takes one to know one" or "One judges others by oneself"?

It takes one to know one, because the meaning of that phrase is what it's all about.

OK - I've re-set the voting now - let's see what happens.

OK

Take a look, ladies.
Det finns en viktig sanning som man skall lära sig i livet. Den gör sig bäst på engelska :: It takes one to know one. På svenska blir det ungefär ::: som man känner sig själv känner man andra.

Here goes my poor translation:
There's an important statement (lit.: truth) that one should know in life. It's better in English: It takes one to know one.
In Swedish, it's something like this: som man känner sig själv känner man andra

Tack Casper!! Då kom vi rätt till slut?

As one knows it, one knows others.

oneself = it???

Thanks for the translation lenab

...and to all others as well, that helped to get it right.