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From: gabor@qantel.UUCP (Gabor Fencsik@ex2642)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Call for Proper Noun Idioms
Message-ID: <566@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 03:48:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 03:48:51 1985
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In article <157@cfa.UUCP> wyatt@cfa.UUCP (Bill Wyatt) writes:

>From _Native_Tongues_, by Charles Berlitz, Grosset & Dunlap, 1982:
>
>English: It's Greek to me.
>French:  It's Hebrew to me. [also] That's lesser Negro.
>Spanish: That's Chinese to me.
>German:  That seems like Spanish to me.
> ...

There is also a concoction that the Hungarians call a French salad; In Paris
it is known as a Russian salad; in Moscow they call it a Czech salad. I don't
know what the Czechs call it but I suspect the linguistic buck-passing must
end somewhere - or perhaps we have a closed cycle. It's just an ordinary
appetizer - someone ought to take responsibility for it.

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Gabor Fencsik                  {ihnp4,dual,lll-crg,hplabs}!qantel!gabor