Re: List of natlangs
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 16, 1998, 12:45 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I wanted to add that in French, we also say "c'est du chinois pour moi" as
> in Spanish. I wonder why this is the same in two different languages.
> Surely a cultural thing...
Probably either one borrowed the idiom from the other, or it has a
common origin in Vulgar Latin, or both borrowed it from a third lang.
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