Palauan Language Online: Palau Language Proverbs Quiz

Palau Language Proverbs Quiz

QUESTION 1:

Please choose the corrective figurative meaning for this proverb:

The male betelnut bag (tet) is used till old and worn, then discarded without sentiment. The saying refers to speech without responsibility or personal sentiment.
The native duck, debar, doesn't fly very well, or high like other birds, it doesn't walk or run like some animals, it can't sing well, and it doesn't swim as well as a fish. But it can do all these things. Applied to a person who seemingly can do many different things, none of them expertly. "Jack of all trades."
A "straight talker"; one who sticks to what he says without reversing himself.
There is a song (Oumachas) from which this saying derives: Once there was a young couple who made love in a secluded spot in the taro garden. While they were lying together a purple swamp hen darted out of the brush startling the couple. Eventually love cooled, but thereafter whenever the girl saw a purple swamp hen while she worked in the gardens, she recalled her lover. Hence any occurrence that brings back fond memories.
Applied to a leader who piles work upon work until the various tasks become meaningless.

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