Caitie (twirlability) wrote in linguaphiles,
Caitie
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Hi all. :) Just as a preface: if this subject has been covered in another post, I’ll happily delete. I looked through the memories and couldn’t find anything related, but I may have missed it!

I’ve noticed that several languages have variants of English’s “it’s all Greek to me” (Eso es chino básico, and Das kommt mir Spanisch vor, in German and Spanish, respectively) and I was wondering if any other languages have versions of this idiom. Indulge me?
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  • Interpretation of the Legend

    (inscriptions on the Kushan Kingdom coins / надписи на монетах Кушанского царства)

  • Spanish query

    I would be most grateful if anyone could help me out with a Spanish idiom, an expression appearing in a discussion of torture from the late 18th…

  • A very strange Etruscan inscription

    Chiusi is a small town in Italy (province of Siena, Tuscany). And once it was one of the most powerful centers of the Etruscan League of 12 cities.…