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TIL The saying 'It's all Greek to me' has dozens of localised variations, including 'That's Chinese to me (Dutch)', 'To me this is Turkish (Venetian)', 'Am I speaking Persian? (Hindi)' and 'It's all Hebrew (Finnish).

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