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by Zecc 763 days ago
I have to ask: is there a Greek equivalent for "it's all Greek to me"?

Edit: I just did an internet search and found you use Chinese or Turkish instead. Never mind me.

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And Turks use French for that.
Evet, epey Fransız kalıyoruz.
We use Chinese in the French equivalent too
Finding equivalent idioms in different languages is one of the most fun things to do with LLMs.

One of the tricky parts, if you plan to actually use the idioms, is that they very greatly between different regions that use the same language. Particularly tricky with Spanish, considering so many countries on so many different continents use it. I haven't found LLMs to be good at knowing what regions use any given expression.

Italians use "Arabic"
in German we say "I only understand train station and departure"...
But we use a country name in the sentence: "That seems Spanish to me" (Das kommt mir spanisch vor) although that would 'translate' to "That seems fishy to me"
loll Spanish people must be very pleased hearing this...