• Instigate@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    That’s interesting, because “the apple doesn’t/didn’t fall far from the tree” is a known Anglophonic saying that basically means that a child turned out a lot like a parent (gender not necessarily specified). I wonder if one is a calque of the other.

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      5 months ago

      The above poster isnt really correct. We have an actual saying that is the literal translation: "Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm ". And it means exactly what you suggest, a child being very much like one of their parents in one way or another.

      Like father, like son exists as well, “Wie der Vater so der Sohn”.

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        5 months ago

        You’re right, I forgot about the fact that there’s a literal translation. But besides being gender-neutral, both sayings mean the same, no?

        My main point was that many Germans now regularly use the pear-tree malapropism, however.