When we don’t understand something a person says, the English the phrase “It’s all Greek to me” is used. Or even double Dutch. Other cultures may use a different language name in the same phrase. Check this graph by Liberman from the Language Log that sums up this phenomenon. In Slovene “To mi je španska [...]
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Greek, Chinese, Spanish or something else?
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