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Nice. It looks like it's confusing the different meanings of "English": "a language originating in England" vs. "native tongue". If you're translating somethi
by jcl 18y ago
Nice. It looks like it's confusing the different meanings of "English": "a language originating in England" vs. "native tongue".
If you're translating something like "Give it to me in plain English", you'd want the second meaning. Likewise, "It's Greek to me" doesn't hold the quite same weight when translated literally into Greek.
- maw 18y agoCould be. If you tell it to translate to Spanish, it says "Inglés" (which is incorrect, btw, since it shouldn't be capitalized) or "francés", depending on whether you leave the period. But, if you tell it to translate into German, it says "französisch" either way.
- alexandros 18y agoYeap. In Greek we say 'It's chinese to me'. I wonder what the chinese say :)
- silentbicycle 18y agoGood question. After a bit of searching, I found these nation / translation tables. Neat! * http://www.omniglot.com/language/idioms/incomprehensible.php * http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Greek-to-me