Timeline for Is there an English idiom for 'your silence implies your consent'?
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| Feb 3, 2015 at 11:41 | comment | added | Baljeetsingh Sucharia | @DilipSarwate thanks for the sanskrit translation, was actually looking for the same ;) | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 13:30 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | In fact I don't think the idiom exists in German. The closest you get is "Keine Antwort ist auch eine Antwort" (no answer is also an answer), which is almost exclusively used when someone is suspected to have done something bad and, when accused of it, neither confesses nor denies but stays silent. "Keine Antwort ist auch eine Antwort" then concludes that they have done it. | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 12:35 | comment | added | 0x4B1D | @TobiasKienzler thanks for correction. It sounded German to me. Google translate detects it as Dutch. | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 12:34 | history | edited | 0x4B1D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2011 at 12:31 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | Uhm, where'd you get to German here? "Zwijgen is instemmen" is not, if that was what you referred to | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 10:51 | comment | added | Xavier T. | The French version is "Qui ne dit mot consent". Wiktionary link : en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qui_ne_dit_mot_consent | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 10:30 | comment | added | Promather | Didn't the same idiom exists in German and Russian, but I know the same idiom exists in Arabic language: Al-Sokoot 'Alamat Al-Ridha, meaning "The silence is the sign of acceptance." | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 7:57 | comment | added | sq33G | It's in classic and modern Hebrew as well. And I believe that the NGram of this version vs "silence is consent" as per above is even more telling. | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 3:15 | comment | added | Dilip Sarwate | In Sanskrit, which, like Latin, is a Indo-European language, it is "Maunam Sweekruti Lakshanan" which translates as "Silence is a sign of acceptance". | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 0:06 | history | answered | 0x4B1D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |