gjm , 11 days ago @hananc @llewelly @futurebird @SmudgeTheInsultCat The graph at https://flowingdata.com/2015/04/14/its-all-greek-or-chinese-or-spanish-or-to-me/ suggests that at least some Chinese speakers use English in their version of this idiom, which if I'm reading their graph correctly makes English -> Greek -> Chinese -> English a possible cycle.
@hananc @llewelly @futurebird @SmudgeTheInsultCat The graph at https://flowingdata.com/2015/04/14/its-all-greek-or-chinese-or-spanish-or-to-me/ suggests that at least some Chinese speakers use English in their version of this idiom, which if I'm reading their graph correctly makes English -> Greek -> Chinese -> English a possible cycle.
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