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[http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/362-greek-to-me-mapping-mutual-incomprehension/] - - public:time
communication, culture, graph, greek, language, linguistics, visualization - 7 | id:3763 -

“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like Chinese’. I’ve been told the Korean equivalent is ’sounds like Hebrew’,” says Yuval Pinter (here on the excellent Languagelog).

[http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/indehiscent+] - - public:lashend
language - 1 | id:34483 -

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