Answer Me This! Podcast

Many of you – not quite as many as have asked what’s up with Martin’s voice, but still lots – have posed this question:

What do Greek people say instead of the phrase, “It’s all Greek to me”?

We’ve done the proper proper research, by befriending a genuine Greek person some seven years ago just in the hope that one day, they would come in useful (aside from teaching us some ingenious squid recipes).

According to the genuine Grecian, he and his fellow compatriates say, “It’s all Chinese to me.”

So, what we need to find out now is: which language do Chinese people pick on in this idiom? If you’re a Chinese speaker, enlighten us in the comments below.

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Tags: linguistics, phrases, racist phrases

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