Re: Confusing Words in English


Augustus SFX van Dusen wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:35:21 -0800, Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>
> >
> > Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim wrote:
> >> Dylan Sung wrote:
> >> > "Marc Adler" <marc.adler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> > news:1130964422.563307.89340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > > Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >> Try guessing
> >> > >
> >> > > That's what I thought.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > He's a Dr of Guessing? That's understandable.
> >> >
> >> Dogs bark but the caravan goes on
> >
> > what language did you learn this expression from, if so in exactly which
> > words?
>
> I don't know about the original poster, but the only time I have heard
> this in Henry Hathaway's "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer", from 1935. The
> line is uttered by an Indian maharajah, as a sort of implicit threat to
> some British officers in India.


interesting, because it makes a jingle in turkish: it u"ru"r, kervan
yu"ru"r
litt. "the dog 'blows' (barks), the caravan goes on".

the words are all found in eastern trurkic as well (incl. the persian
word kervan < ka:rvan <ka:rwa:n>). u"r= is rare in standard turkish,
but found in rural dialects.

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