Languagle #3: Norwegian
Som man roper i skogen, får man svar
"As you shout in the forest, so you get your answer."
What it means
Used to say that people tend to get back the same tone they put out, so hostility or respect from others is often just an echo of how you first spoke or acted.
What kind of saying it is
Oral tradition. In Norwegian, a ordtak. Passed down by word of mouth. Sayings like this have no single author.
Where it comes from
It's grounded in the literal experience of shouting into a forest and hearing your own words come back unchanged, used here as a metaphor rather than a description of sound.
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