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Yuval Pinter writes:
When an English speaker doesn t understand a word one says, 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 .
Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph?
Well, there s a Wikipedia article on the topic Greek to me with a table of correspondences, a page at Omniglot It s all Greek to me with a similar table, and a forum thread at wordreference.com. Michael Quinion has a Q&A on the origins of the English expression, which includes the suggestion that the Spanish-American word gringo comes from the expression “hablar en griego”.
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This Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 photo shows the word culture in the Merriam-Webster s Collegiate Dictionary, in New York. Merriam-Webster has named culture its 2014 word of the year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) San Francisco- Asharq Al-Awsat
Researchers from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have investigated the ability of machine learning algorithms to identify lexical borrowings, according to the German News Agency.
Lexical borrowing, or the direct transfer of words from one language to another, helps researchers trace the evolution of modern languages and indicate cultural contact between distinct linguistic groups. However, researchers often face challenges in this field because the tracing process requires the comparison of multiple languages.