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By overloading the proverb with little and old in What little Johnnie hasn't learnt, old John will not learn, the translator (here a traditore, indeed) has killed the clever implication inherent in the play on names, perhaps in a fumbled attempt to bear out his claim that Russian proverbs are relatively brief.
Some are interesting and have a curiosity value ( spaneria `a scarceness of men'), others, if learnt, would present some difficulties in fitting into most conversations ( umber `sundial pointer's shadow').
What is at stake is not a set of arcane ecological questions, but rather questions that are central to determining whether ecological and conservation lessons learnt in one area can be applied more broadly.
Earlier, on page 49, we learnt about Agnodice, “who lived to become the world's first known woman gynaecologist,” in the fourth century BC.
Because we were an alien family, dad and mum were very keen that we learnt how to compose ourselves in this new society.