15.07.2012                      25.Tammus. 5772

Untersuchung:

Understanding why people ‘call the kettle black’

Almost every language has its own version of the saying about “the pot calling the kettle black”.

Almost every language has its own version of the saying about “the pot calling the kettle black”. This includes Chinese (“The soldier that fled 50 steps mocks the one that fled 100 steps”), Portuguese (“One with torn clothes mocks the naked”), German (“One donkey calls the other one long-ears”) and Bengali (“The sieve tells the needle to mind the hole in its back”). Folk wisdom reflected in these sayings suggests people are often guilty of the very fault they identify in others….