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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875301214-22022005></SPAN>T<SPAN
class=875301214-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>he Russians and
Rumanians say "That's Chinese to me"</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875301214-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>The French: "That's Hebrew to
me"</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875301214-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>The Germans: "That's Spanish to
me"</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875301214-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>The Poles: "I'm listening to a Turkish
sermon"</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875301214-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Fritz Goerling</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><TT><BR>«So would it be true to say that Pg. "Isso é chinęs para
mim" = Eng.<BR>"It's all Greek to me" (which means
'incomprehensible')?»<BR><BR>Yes, Patrick, it would be true to the
Greek.<BR><BR><BR>«"work like a slave / work like a Black" were common
expressions in my<BR>youth, but I think they've been driven out by poltical
correctness.»<BR><BR>Now that you mention it, it is interesting that we keep
using these<BR>expressions in spite of political correcteness, although I pay
attention<BR>to my audience when I use them. We have some variation "trabalhar
que<BR>nem um preto" (work like a Black), "trabalhar que nem um mouro"
(work<BR>like a Muslim), "trabalhar que nem um galego (work like a Galician);
all<BR>these expressions mean "to work very hard".<BR>We also use: "rir que
nem um preto" (laugh like a Black), meaning<BR>"laughing very
loud".<BR><BR>Margarita<BR><BR><BR></TT>
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