{"id":860,"date":"2003-04-29T20:59:14","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-03-17T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:56:59","slug":"eekgray-otay-emay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"mihi est igpe atinle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/romanceconlang\/>romanceconlang list<\/a> (dedicated to the design of fictional descendants of Latin, spoken presumably by people of other timelines) has lately discussed expressions parallel to &#8220;It&#8217;s Greek to me&#8221; in other languages.  So far: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <i>Danes:<\/i> Hebrew, Volap&uuml;k <\/li>\n<li> <i>Italians:<\/i> Turkish <\/li>\n<li> <i>French:<\/i> Chinese, Hebrew <\/li>\n<li> <i>Nederlanders:<\/i> Chinese <\/li>\n<li> <i>Poles, Swedes:<\/i> Greek, Chinese <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Later:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/takosan.us\/cogito\/\">A reader<\/a> contributes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> My co-worker across the hall is Turkish.  She says that, while it is not a common phrase, she thinks Turks use French as their &#8220;Greek&#8221;.  The way she phrased it made me think that it was not really a Turkish idiom, but I thought you might be interested. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> More generally, what does each nation use for &lsquo;funny-foreigner-talk&rsquo;?  I&#8217;ve seen mock-German so used both in English (&#8220;das Komputenmachine ist nicht f&uuml;r fingerpoken und mittengraben&#8221;) and <a href=\"?p=815\">in French<\/a>; when I asked in some newsgroup what language Germans use, one German replied that they use other varieties of German.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laterer:<\/strong> Another reader (who had not previously so manifested! hi!) reports, &#8220;In Modern Hebrew, the idiom is <i>It&#8217;s all Chinese<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnote:<\/strong> To discourage spammers, <i>romanceconlang<\/i> was renamed <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/romconlang\/\">romconlang<\/a> in October 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The romanceconlang list (dedicated to the design of fictional descendants of Latin, spoken presumably by people of other timelines) has lately discussed expressions parallel to &#8220;It&#8217;s Greek to me&#8221; in other languages. So far: Danes: Hebrew, Volap&uuml;k Italians: Turkish French: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}