Well, I've given up trying to get the answer I want to one of my questions. We say, "It's all Greek to me," when we don't understand something.

The Greeks, meanwhile, as I learned at the 2004 Athens Games, say, "It's all Chinese to me."

So it would wrap up the world in one simple circle if the Greeks would say, "It's all English to me."

Or it would send me on my next leg if they said, "It's all Japanese to me."

Or something.

Instead, of the several people I've asked, the answer typically is, "We don't have an expression like that."

What do you say if you don't understand something at all?

"We don't understand it."

We all have our little disappointments in life.

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