Re: List of natlangs
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 15, 1998, 17:10 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Fun fact: they have only one word for both green and blue.
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> Quite a few langs are like that, no?
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.
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