English speakers say, “It’s all Greek to me,” when they find something hard to understand. Mark Liberman, a professor linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, started wondering what the equivalent was in different languages. Drawing on a variety of sources, including Wikipedia, Omniglot and user comments, he created this graph, which shows the language that other languages use to describe things that are hard or impossible to understand.
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