Re: List of natlangs
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 16, 1998, 23:41 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >Just the other day, for example, I learned that in Spanish, one does
> >not say "It's Greek to me," ["Graecus mihi est"] but rather "It's
> >Chinese to me" (or at least that's what my informant told me).
> >Idioms are always fun like that.
>
> I wanted to add that in French, we also say "c'est du chinois p=
our moi" as
> in Spanish. I wonder why this is the same in two different languages.
> Surely a cultural thing...
Well, it seems like it would be an easy thing to carry over from
Spain to France, as the two are immediately adjacent geographically
and have for centuries had quite close relations (whether in war or
peace). Is the phrase more common in Southern France, or the North?
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