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Jack Doughty 
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| | Variant on "It's all Greek..." | May 15, 2010 |
You could say of incomprehensible computer manuals and help files:
"It's all geek to me!"
[Edited at 2010-05-15 16:02 GMT]
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Gudrun Wolfrath
Germany
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| | Ich verstehe nur Chinesisch | May 15, 2010 |
for
I don't have a clue
is quite common in Germany.
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TurkishEnglishTranslator.com "Бёcäטsع Լîfe's cômplicåtعd eñøugh"
Turkey
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Mirella Soffio wrote:
"Per me è arabo"
Mirella |
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in Italy "Turkish" is also used. A friend of mine went to a grocer and he could not speak Italian well. The grocer was angry and said "Do you speak Turkish?". My friend was very happy and said "Yes". Of course the grocer was much more angry this time. He thought my friend was pulling his leg. According to Herodotus and DNA tests, Etruscans, namely the father of Italians were from Turkey.
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Melissa Dedina
Czech Republic
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Susan Ruusunen
Finland
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In Finnish we say: "it's total Hebrew to me" (Se on täyttä hepreaa minulle).
I was surprised to read earlier in the topic that they use the same thing in French, too.
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Judith Martin
Spain
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In Spanish we also say "me suena a chino" 
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Jacqueline Sieben
Netherlands
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| | Polish language too? | Mar 14 |
Jack Doughty wrote:
You could say of incomprehensible computer manuals and help files:
"It's all geek to me!"
[Edited at 2010-05-15 16:02 GMT] |
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I think I found a new one: It's "reverse Polish" to me... Apparently a computing term which also refers to something incomprehensible.
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Desiree Staude
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efreitag wrote:
Interesting topic!
In German, it's either "Das kommt mir spanisch vor!" ("Sounds like Spanish to me!"), or "Das sind böhmische Dörfer!" ("That's all Bohemian villages to me!")
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That is very common.
But we also sometimes say: Das ist chinesisch für mich. (That is Chinese to me.)
PS: If someone already mentioned it, sorry for the redundant entry.
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The translation workplace 
