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Bedre er at være forudseende end bagklog
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Bedre er at være forudseende end bagklog
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I need the British english version of this saying

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A stitch in time saves nine
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A stitch in time saves nine
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Another possibility is "Better safe than sorry," but this is a bit more colloquial.
Góðkent av IanMegill2 - 24 Oktober 2007 13:46





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23 Oktober 2007 16:06

pias
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I believe 'Bedre er at være forudseende end bagklog
' has nothing to do with time ...

meaning of 'A stitch in time saves nine' : http://humanities.byu.edu/ELC/student/idioms/proverbs/stitch.html

that it is better to spend a little time to deal with problems or act right now than wait.
If you wait until late, things will get worse, and it will take much longer to deal with them.

I believe (??)this meaning is just saying that it is better to think before acting than
discover afterwards that you had made a misstake (or something similar)

but I am NOT a native danish speaker...that is just a guess

23 Oktober 2007 16:17

IanMegill2
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Look before you leap?
Or, as my father used to say
"Time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted"?

23 Oktober 2007 20:02

wkn
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The literal translation is "It's better to anticipate (...problems...) that to know afterwards what you should have done".

"A stitch in time saves nine" captures this quite well. Another possibility (might at least go into the notes) is "better safe than sorry" which captures more of the sense of "bagklog" - sorry but wiser.

24 Oktober 2007 12:52

IanMegill2
Tal av boðum: 1671
Okay, this sounds like a little closer approximation!
Thanks, wkn!
Kafetzou, do you think it would a good idea to change it to
Better safe than sorry
?

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24 Oktober 2007 13:20

kafetzou
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No, I don't, because the requester wanted British English,and "better safe than sorry" is a bit too colloquial, I think, but we can certainly put the other one in the commentary, as wkn suggested. I'll do that.

24 Oktober 2007 13:23

kafetzou
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The idea of "a stitch in time saves nine" is not really about time, pias. It means if you anticipate a problem and take a precautionary measure before the problem arises, you will save yourself a lot of trouble later.

24 Oktober 2007 13:44

IanMegill2
Tal av boðum: 1671
I certainly agree with you that
A stitch in time saves nine
sounds more British!
This dumb Canadian has probably never used it in his life!

I guess I'll validate it now, then: thanks, everybody!

24 Oktober 2007 15:58

pias
Tal av boðum: 8113
Ok Kafetzou, thanks for explaining.