No hay mejor desprecio que no hacer aprecio

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Hola de nuevo, he intentando encontrar esta frase echa, por doquier, y no logro encontrarla. Sabe alguien algún equivalente en inglés. Generalmente se usa para justificar el ignorar a alguien. Rusty help.:impatient:

[poli]

I don't think we have a dicho for this in English.
You can say: Don't pay attention to him. It will only encourage him. Ignore him and he will go away.

[irmamar]

I don't think we have a dicho for this in English.
You can say: Don't pay attention to him. It will only encourage him. Ignore him and he will go away.

I think that not all the Spanish "dichos" (I don't know the word in English) can be translated in the same way, I mean, with another English "dicho". We can say a sentence with a meaning, this meaning is possible to translate, but not with this type of sentence. An on the contrary, it would work the same.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

One can also say "hacerle caso al loco es engrandecerlo", but I don't think I've ever heard an equivalent in English, except in some forum-jargon "Don't feed the trolls". :)

[turissa]

There are some that either can be translated, or have a similar one in English..: http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Spanish-English.html

Saludos, t.

[Rusty]

A couple of options:
To give the cold shoulder
To damn with faint praise

[irmamar]

There are some that either can be translated, or have a similar one in English..: http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Spanish-English.html

Saludos, t.

Interesting link, Turissa :)

[turissa]

"There's no worse disdain than to ignore" would be a more or less literal translation, but then again, it is not in the list of English sayings, like a lot more of them, so in my modest opinion, Rusty's options come closer.

Saludos, t.

[Tomisimo]

Other good options for this would be:

Don't feed the trolls. (used a lot on the internet)
Don't add wood to the fire.

These essentially say that the best way to get rid of a troublemaker is to ignore them.