Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 96. The proverb today is don't throw the baby
out with the bath water. Okay. Anyway, let's take a look at the note here. If someone
throws the baby out with the bath water he or she discards something valuable
along with something undesirable. So while you're getting rid of something
undesirable, you get rid of something good at the same time. All right. So let's
continue here. The proverb is German in origin and dates back to the early 1500s.
So it goes way back. It's been around a long time. Let's continue here. Some
people claim the origin of this proverb was when people shared bath water. So you
know going back in the early 1500s water was more scarce. So that's what they
think that that was the possibility and it was customary for the father to bathe
first and it went down in order to the baby, one at a time. So you know the
father then the mother and then you know if there were other children in between
and finally it went down to the baby. By the time the baby was bathed the water was
so dirty that the baby may be unseen and possibly thrown out with the bath water.
However there are others who claim this is nonsense. It's a nonsense story. Maybe
this is not really true. I don't know. In some ways maybe I hope it's not too.
Because you know, usually you want to take care of the baby. You think the baby
might be more fragile or more susceptible to getting bacteria or
disease. So maybe you might not want to wash the baby last in the really dirty
muddy water. That may not really be a good idea. But , but who knows what they
did in the 1500s or 1600s. Maybe that's the way they thought. Okay. Anyway, Let's
continue here. The earliest cited reference So the first time they can
actually find this comes from Thomas Murner's Narrenbeschworung , basically that's
in German which means appeal to fools from 1512. So that's the first, that's the
earliest they can go back to find it. Let's just give one example of how we
may use it today. It is not necessary to cancel the project. There are still some
good parts of it that can be saved. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. So
that's typically how we might use it Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope you
enjoyed it. Thank you for your time. Bye- bye.