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It'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 g
by onethought 6y ago
It'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.