It's all Greek to me (idiomatic)

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Re: It's all Greek to me (idiomatic)

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Re: It's all Greek to me (idiomatic)

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Want to translate this into all the Lonian languages, but feel like atm I only have time and energy for one.

:con: Ganur Lon

There are polite ways to say this and vulgar ways to say it. First the polite ways:

Up ec caskjim.
/up ec ˈcaskjim/
up ec cask-j-im
be DEM crap-INDEF.SBJ-speak
"That is spoken crap."

Up ec caskjong.
/up ec ˈcaskjong/
up ec cask-j-ong
be DEM crap-INDEF.SBJ-write
"That is written crap."

Now the vulgar ways:

Up ec cacjim.
/up ec ˈcacjim/
up ec cac-j-im
be DEM shit-INDEF.SBJ-speak
"That is spoken shit."

Up ec cacjong.
/up ec ˈcacjong/
up ec cac-j-ong
be DEM shit-INDEF.SBJ-write
"That is written shit."

Cask is, of course, a minced oath for cac. It is no more offensive than heck is in English, and is much more widely used.
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Re: It's all Greek to me (idiomatic)

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Lambuzhao, god I'm envious of you reading Coptic. I know the alphabet is just stylized Greek, but I've never put the time into learning the language.
I'm happy to push the discussion into 'terra incognita'. But, truthfully, sometimes it's not just the alphabet that's stylized :ell:, a lot of the vocabulary is :ell: , too. [:S] Depending on what you're reading, almost all of it might be :ell: in origin (save the Articles, Conjunctions, Coverbs, PRNs).

It is delightful and refreshing (albeit tenuous at times) to be able find out just how Egyptian a Coptic word may be.


And there's the whole 'Coptic Question':
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40784826?s ... b_contents
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Re: It's all Greek to me (idiomatic)

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Very good one from :idn: Indonesian:

Itu bahasa planet.
[itu baˈhasa plaˈnet]
DEM language planet
That's the language of a planet.
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Re: It's all Greek to me (idiomatic)

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Another, older way of saying it in Ganur Lon that I just rediscovered:

Up ec ganet cane.
/up ec ˈga.net ˈca.ne/
be PRO.3SG language-more.general PRO.DAT-1SG

"That's a quasi-language to me." or "That's gibberish to me."
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:ita: Italiano
Per me è arabo.
/per me ε 'arabo/
for 1SG.OBJ be.3SG Arabic
That's Arabic to me.
:ita: :eng: [:D] | :fra: :esp: :rus: [:)] | :con: Hecathver, Hajás, Hedetsūrk, Darezh...

Tin't inameint ca tót a sàm stê żōv'n e un po' cajoun, mo s't'armâgn cajoun an vōl ménga dîr t'armâgn anc żōven...
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:urban auxlang: WTF
(pronunciation depends on L1)
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Wakuhili
Ta lu kamvu
COP.PRES OMN.ABTC death
Everything is death

Pod
Yn dås rovåuom naddok
IMP DIST fish-COM. sword
That’s fish with a sword!
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Re: It's all Greek to me (idiomatic)

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:con: Cissian

То е за мене́ как кита́йски.
To je za mjenjé kak kitájsk-i.
/to je za mʲeˈnʲe kak kiˈtaj.ski/
this.M.SG.NOM be.3SG.PRS to 1SG.ACC like Chinese-M.SG.NOM

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:con: Ular

我为语越聽。
Lăn nùng jōvӑr ój.

1SG to Vietnamese hear
It's all Vietnamese to me.
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Re: It's all Greek to me (idiomatic)

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:con: griuskant (without the conscript)

zhe az vaep iuz aesk.
/ʒə az 'vep iuz esk/
this is nonsense upon 1SG
This is nonsense to me.
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