Re: List of natlangs

At 11:10 15/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
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>> > Fun fact:  they have only one word for both green and blue.
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>> Quite a few langs are like that, no?
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>Indeed, but it's one of those weird idiosyncracies that makes language
>learning so neat!  Every language has 'em, but they always seem so,
>well, _foreign_, when you read about them from other languages.
>
>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.
>
        Sorry if I send a response a little bit late, but the system was totally
down and I had to wait for the system administrators to reinstall it. But
now it works again. I'm back!
        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...

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