Please tag it as [proverb] and [by William Shakespeare].
Thanks!
Did Shakespeare really say this in German? I personally don't believe that translations of quotes should be attributed to the original author. So I'm not going to tag it, but someone else can if they think it is appropriate.
Also, has this become a real proverb in German too? If it's just a translation and not commonly used, then I would use the "translated proverb" tag instead.
Ok, you're right!
But really it is a German proverb! Thank you for tagging :)
Zifre: funny that you ask. I don´t think Shakespeare spoke german or cared for a translation. Nevertheless (almost) every german knows the sentence and knows, from whom it comes.
@articmonkey: I understand the reasoning behind this, but it seems a bit deceiving. Also, I think it slightly compromises the usefulness of the data from the Tatoeba Project, if computers can't tell which is the real quote.
I think there will be ways to solve this with metadata in the new version of Tatoeba, but for now, I think it might be a good idea to have a "translated quote" tag or something like that.
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