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”.
CSO Presents Digital Performance Of Dvorak And Ravel Friday, January 22, 2021
The next installment of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera’s First Horizon Foundation Instrumental Series will be a digital presentation of Dvorák and Ravel, featuring chamber ensembles performing Ravel s lush String Quartet in F Major, the exciting opening movement of Dvorák s String Quintet No. 2, and the Adagio of Elgar s Quintet in A minor, featuring CSO Principal Keyboard Alan Nichols on piano.
To ensure the safety of musicians and audience members in the face of rising COVID-19 cases in the community, the organization’s previously scheduled live performances of Appalachian Spring for Jan. 23-25 have been cancelled.