[Lexicog] Equivalents of "It's Greek to me"

[John Roberts]

English speakers also have the expression "double Dutch" to describe 
incomprehensible speech.

John Roberts


rtroike at email.arizona.edu wrote:
> Howdy, all,
>
>    A colleague forwarded this link to me, and I thought you-all might like
> to see it:
>
> http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/362-greek-to-me-mapping-mutual-incomprehension/
>
>    As he explained it:
> It maps out the relationship of how languages represent 'it's Greek to me' or
> incomprehensibility--the map shows us that English refers to Greek, but other
> languages refer to others--so in Italian they say 'it's Arabic to me', and in
> Croatian they say 'it's Spanish to me'--while in Greek, as in many other
> languages apparently, they say 'it's Chinese to me'--most of the referents
> must be historical in nature
>
>    I think there was some discussion of this topic on this list awhile back.
> I don't know who made the map, and can't vouch for its accuracy, but it is
> an interesting effort to represent this expression visually, and might
> suggest some ways to represent other concepts/expressions cartographically
> across languages.
>
>    Rudy
>
>
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