Yes. Where English speakers say ”it’s all Greek to me” meaning something is incomprehensible, Finnish speakers say ”it’s just Hebrew to me” (”silkkaa hepreaa”).
Another, and in my opinion funnier saying related to not understanding something is when you don’t understand someone’s handwriting, you say: that looks like the toes of a magpie
Wow. Finland is an extremely antisemitic country.
There’s also siansaksaa meaning pig-german
As an Israeli living in Finland with a Finnish boyfriend, it is.
At uni, I once heard someone say “This Sanskrit is just Hebrew to me”.
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Yes. Where English speakers say ”it’s all Greek to me” meaning something is incomprehensible, Finnish speakers say ”it’s just Hebrew to me” (”silkkaa hepreaa”).
Another, and in my opinion funnier saying related to not understanding something is when you don’t understand someone’s handwriting, you say: that looks like the toes of a magpie
Wow. Finland is an extremely antisemitic country.
There’s also siansaksaa meaning pig-german
As an Israeli living in Finland with a Finnish boyfriend, it is.
At uni, I once heard someone say “This Sanskrit is just Hebrew to me”.