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"English speakers say, “It’s all Greek to me,” when they find something
hard to understand. Shakespeare used the phrase in “Julius Caesar”
(“Those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads;
but for mine own part, it was Greek to me”)."
Fascinating! Via Kam-Yung Soh and Yonatan Zunger, who added:
'Reminds me of the old joke about how people say that something isn't
brain surgery. So someone asked a bunch of brain surgeons what they say,
and the answer was "it's not rocket science." Rocket scientists, in
turn, say that it's not theoretical physics; theoretical physicists say
that it's not car mechanics.'
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