Question Google translation and the German langauge.

[Screamer7]

Modern and Ancient ?

What dgatsoulis mean is that if some one do not understand something, it is Greek to him.
And dgatsoulis is from Greece.:lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

What dgatsoulis mean is that if some one do not understand something, it is Greek to him.
And dgatsoulis is from Greece.:lol:

Yes, but that is easily lost in translation. In German, it would for example be:

"Das sind böhmische Dörfer für mich" / "That's like bohemian villages to me".

In Bohemia, they say "These are spanish villages to me"... and accordingly to the black hole gravity of the German language, we say as well: "Das kommt mir spanisch vor." / "This appears spanish to me" (but with a slightly different meaning, here it means: I suspect something is wrong with it). In Spain, they say: esto me suena a chino... and that is also said in France: "C'est du chinois."

The Chinese for example say 聽起來像火星話。and mean "This sounds martian to me." (For Firefly fans: "Tīng qílái xiàng houxinghua" * )

Once around the world solar system with just one phrase. I would have to ask JPL, what Curiosity answers if it does not understand a transmission.

And Greece, BTW, they say: Αυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικα...

* I hope it is approximately right, can eat chinese, but I can't speak it.

 

[N_Molson]

Here it's rather "C'est du chinois pour moi" or "C'est de l'hébreu pour moi" (It's all chinese/hebrew to me).

Which is rather logical, as those tongues are perfectly unreadable if you know only the latin alphabet.

 

[Eccentrus]

and here we say "it's all Japanese to me", it's utterly useless to say "it sounds like the language my parents speak to each other with, oh right, I also learnt that language a bit" :lol: but after the advent of the Anime wave here, and the Korean, we're currently running out of languages to portray as the "illegible" perhaps I can make a trend of saying "it's all Bushmen to me"