Website review: Translations of Its all Greek/Chine...
slyguy135 discovered this in Linguistics
•3 reviews since Nov 9, 2006
linguistics
•omniglot.com/language/phrases/incomprehensibl...
People who like this website
- LightChaser
Colorado
- Cygnus1983
Victoria
- Ukobach
Texas
- Arden-Forrest
Stillwater
- ahuman
Houston
- MrsA
Houston
- dakotatanna
Grand Forks
- kancerman
Breckenridge Hill…
- aksmith
Madison
- imlala2
Tennessee
StumbleUpon is the best way to discover great web sites, videos, photos, blogs and more - based on your interests.
Everything is submitted and rated by the community. Discover, share and review the best of the web!
Reviews of this website
slyguy135 discovered 18 months ago- 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.
- sweetcherries rated 18 months ago
- it's all greek to me haha
- MrsA rated 18 months ago
- Years ago, I had a Greek-American boss. Before I realized her ethnicity, I uttered a familiar phrase to her regarding something I did not know: "It's Greek to me!" She laughed and told me first she was Greek then she told me that her culture said the same thing but substituted "Chinese" for Greek. This page confirms that and goes onto show what other languages use for the same thought.
