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Translations of Its all Greek/Chinese/Hebrew/Arabic to me in many languages: Nov 9, 2006 7:15pm 3 reviews linguistics
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/incomprehensible.htm; 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.

Adso: chinese-english annotation and machine translation: Oct 18, 2006 6:54am 3 reviews linguistics
http://adsotrans.com/; My favourite way of translating Chinese words or passages. The site merely reprints whatever you give it, whether it be Roman letters or sinograms, but moving the mouse cursor over the latter brings up their standard [for which read "official"] Chinese pronounciation as well as meaning in English, sometimes even appropriately conjugated. Do give it a try if you're learning Chinese, but be warned that if you want to translate traditional Chinese characters instead of the simplified ones then you need to select the appropriate option.

Comparative table of languages and language profiles for the prospective learner: Sep 19, 2006 2:11pm 19 reviews linguistics
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/index.html

Learning Languages: Sep 19, 2006 3:09am 30 reviews linguistics
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html

FSI Language Courses: Sep 19, 2006 3:05am 21 reviews linguistics
http://fsi-language-courses.com/

World Wide Words: Aug 15, 2005 10:25am 108 reviews linguistics
http://www.worldwidewords.org/

Lake Superior State University :: Banished Words List :: 2007: Jan 2, 2005 12:36pm 22 reviews linguistics
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

Omniglot - a guide to the languages, alphabets, syllabaries and other writing sy…: Dec 12, 2004 5:04am 78 reviews linguistics
http://www.omniglot.com/

Urban Dictionary, July 2: Dress Flops: Aug 27, 2004 6:58am 447 reviews linguistics
http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Dictionary.com: Aug 7, 2004 8:42am 189 reviews linguistics
http://dictionary.reference.com/; If you don't know how to spell anything, you'll find it hard to find this site... unless by the magic that is stumbling, you STUMBLE upon it? Geddit? That means "get it" for all those who don't know how to misspell anything. If you fit into this latter category, I recommend visiting other sites. Go on, be off with you.