We were at a Greek restaurant the other day, and I believe it was the first time I’d actually had Greek cuisine. Come to think of it, is there a Greek restuarant in Singapore? It was tasty, although I couldn’t find the right words to describe the food, since nothing I’d had before really compared to that.
The meal and the company got me thinking. If something is too complicated to understand, say a badly written instruction booklet, we would say a phrase like “It’s all Greek to me.”
What if you were Greek? What happens then? What do you say?
How true it is that life is about perspectives. If North America were the center of the earth, as it often assumes it is, the rest of the world is, for example, the Far East and therefore Exotic. The Germans, inscrutable; the Canadians, a single syllable “Ay;” the list goes on.
If English were the international language, any other language would therefore be the more difficult language to learn.
I really wonder what a Greek would say. Perhaps they don’t have an expression for that. Or maybe: It’s all Chinese to me.
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