Maths Week: Your Wednesday puzzle
Learn about the importance of Jan Łukasiewicz and his connection to Ireland.
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Learn about the importance of Jan Łukasiewicz and his connection to Ireland.
Yuval Pinter writes: When an English speaker doesn't understand a word one says, it's "Greek to me". When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it "sounds like Chinese". I've been told the Korean equivalent is "sounds like Hebrew". Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph? Well, there's a Wikipedia article on the topic "Greek to me" with a table of correspondences, a page at Omniglot "It's all Greek to me" with a similar table, and a forum thread at wordreference.com. Michael Quinion has a Q&A on the origins of the ...