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Translations of Its all Greek/Chinese/Hebrew/Arabic to me in many languages
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Nov 9, 2006 7:00pm
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When the English don't understand something with their verifiedly tiny little minds, they exclaim "It's all Greek to me!". If you're as curious and intelligent and handsome and funny as I am, you'll be wondering how other language-speaking groups express the same idea by implying that a tongue foreign to them is essentially gobbledegook. The linked site will tell you, which explains why I'm writing all this. I told you I was intelligent, but you didn't listen.
Chinese seems to be a popular language to indicate incomprehensibility, although the French, strangely, also choose Hebrew, apparently, as do Finnish-speakers. So what do the Chinese say? Ah, that's for you to find out... and I think I'm justified in saying that the answer is delightful.
And do Germans really say "Bohemian villages" to mean they don't understand something? Why?! Sehr merkwürdiger.
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