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maneesh on Aug 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the...

Here's a directed graph showing all of the language's versions of the idiom.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/graph2.png

from https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1024

ColinWright on Aug 10, 2019 | [–]

Using neato instead of dot to layout the graph is nice. I'll do that later if I get time, but I'm not in a position to do it just now.

Edit: Here:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/DifficultyDiGraph.png

knocte on Aug 12, 2019 | [–]

The arrow from Spanish to Greek is wrong. Funnily enough, we only use "Greek" in slang as a way to refer to anal sex.

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