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It’s Greek to me. I don’t understand any of it; it’s totally confusing. The linguist Charles Berlitz, grandson of Maxi- milian Berlitz, founder of the famed Berlitz language schools, has noted that the Italians say, “You’re speaking Turkish”; the Polish say, “I’m hearing a Turkish sermon”; the Russians say, “That’s Chinese grammar”; the Spanish say, “That’s Chinese to me”; and the Germans say, “That seems like Spanish to me.” Shakespeare may have coined the expression it’s Greek to me in Julius Caesar (1599): “For my own part, it was Greek to me.” |