Timeline for English equivalent of the Farsi expression "if it is decided to get the drunks, they will have to get everyone who is in the city"
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| Sep 12, 2022 at 11:11 | comment | added | Jelila | ...boldly split infinitives... :) @loonquawl | |
| Sep 11, 2022 at 8:49 | comment | added | loonquawl | @Jelila - or perhaps i was quoting Star Trek :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_He_Who_Is_Without_Sin... | |
| Sep 9, 2022 at 14:48 | comment | added | Jelila | You wouldn't say 'him has no sin' , would you? To check this sort of thing, take out the extra words. It's 'let he who hath (has) no sin, cast the first stone...' He, who has no sin... You can't say 'him has'. | |
| Sep 8, 2022 at 6:06 | comment | added | loonquawl | @Muzer - no idea whether that is how i got to my version "let he ...", but there is the bible translation "He who ..., let him...." So maybe i got the 'he' from there? | |
| Sep 7, 2022 at 9:48 | comment | added | Muzer | Odd, I always heard it as "he"; but yes, that makes little grammatical sense. maybe it's influenced by the KJV which has "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." | |
| Sep 7, 2022 at 7:25 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Correct case in (mis-)quote
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| Sep 7, 2022 at 7:24 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | @Chaim It is "let him". | |
| Sep 7, 2022 at 2:22 | comment | added | user570286 | I would say "let him". See also <english.stackexchange.com/questions/42097/…>. | |
| Sep 7, 2022 at 1:51 | comment | added | Chaim | @loonquawl By the way, why is it "let he" and not "let him"? | |
| Sep 6, 2022 at 22:10 | comment | added | fectin | Not quite the same, because it emphasizes the fault also existing in the accuser, instead of the fault being widespread. But good approximations nonetheless. | |
| Sep 6, 2022 at 21:00 | comment | added | gidds | For the record, the first of those is is of course a reference to the Bible, specifically John 8:7. | |
| Sep 6, 2022 at 14:39 | history | answered | loonquawl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |