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"It's greek to me" implies that something is utterly confusing. If "chinese whispers" has racist tones, surely implying a language is nearly unintelligible mus
by legostormtroopr 6y ago
"It's greek to me" implies that something is utterly confusing.
If "chinese whispers" has racist tones, surely implying a language is nearly unintelligible must be the same.
- onethought 6y agoIt's greek to me, implies you don't speak greek, there is no negative prejudice applied to the greek people or their language. Chinese whispers the name of a game that information is lost/changed/confused (aka Telephone) as so helpfully pointed out above comes from the idea that Chinese are deliberately confusing and unintelligible. I was merely pointing it out to raise awareness... and tried to do so without crediting any malice to the OP.
- vidarh 6y agoIronically you're passing along a description of the origin of the phrase that seriously mangles what the person who mentioned that possible origin as one of several described.
- jinpa_zangpo 6y agoThe phrase "it's all Greek to me" comes from Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar: "He gave a speech in Greek." "What did he say?" "It was all Greek to me."