In Spain we say "en casa del herrero cuchillo de palo", which translates literally to "In the blacksmith's house, wood knife". the cambridge dictionary entry[1] for herrero shows "the shoemaker's wife is always worst shod" .
The german one is "Der Zimmermann hat den schlechtesten Hammer" "Le charpentier a le plus mauvais marteau." "The carpenter has the worst hammer".
Interestingly enough: google does not know about it. In fact it only finds 640 hits for
"der zimmermann" hammer
the french version results in 840 hits:
"le charpentier" marteau
However
"the developer" gnome
has 374.000 hits... ;-)
Wednesday 8 November 2006 16:33, by
Quim Gil
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Conceptual equivalent in a Spanish saying:
En casa del herrero, cuchara de palo
translated:
In smith's house, wooden spoon
Wednesday 8 November 2006 23:00, by
MJR/slef
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I know it as "the cobbler's children are barefoot" and I'm from near Northampton, home of the cobblers... web.ukonline.co.uk/ntfc/
Thursday 9 November 2006 03:09, by
Damian Wojsław
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For collecting purposes, in Polish: Szewc bez butów chodzi. Exact translation: Shoemaker walks without shoes.
Slightly abusing your comments here, but as you have a Nokia 770 section in your blog: nobody on planet gnome has yet mentioned that there is another gnome/gtk based handheld coming, very similar to the Nokia 770, but with GSM and GPS: www.openmoko.com/press/index.html
Like the Nokia it is based on the familiar distribution and gtk+ with matchbox as window manager. So most likely there will be a good deal of synergy. And it has apt-get ;-) The presentation is a worthy read.
familiar: www.handhelds.org, gpe.handhelds.org
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