🚀 go-pugleaf

In <42su72$c65@news.netvision.net.il>, shunra@netvision.net.il (Dena Shunra & Oren Shefet) writes:
>peter@fourier.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan)  told us that
>the phrase "can't see the wood for the trees" is common in
>Dutch, as well as English  - and French, and Japanese, and 
>Chinese. 
>I'd just like to play further havoc with the "common ancestor"
>theory of the origin of that phrase: it's perfectly acceptable
>in Hebrew, too!
>I looked the matter up in a couple of dictionaries, and it is
>neither biblical in origin nor offered as a translation from
>any other language. 
>
>I'd love to hear any further thoughts on this universal-seeming
>saying.
>	Thanks!
>		Dena Shunra
>
Just to add: We use that phrase in Sweden to ... in Swedish....
But where it came from......I don't know

   /Bill