2.24.11 Adam News & Info

Gelly and Hoopla, yes but these are false cognitives and they are so difficult for any non-native speaker to get right. In fact spies have been taken out by making those mistakes.

The American expression: "its all Greek to me" translates into many languages, but the language under discussion might be different...i.e. in German you would have to either say: it's all Spanish to me or it's all Chinese to me (Das ist alles spanisch fuer mich oder das ist alles chinesisch fuer mich).

On the other hand the Greek expression "for me everything is Greek" seems to mean something different altogether. If I understand Gelly right it is closer to saying...wherever there is apple pie there is home.....and you Americans can tell me
whether you have any American sayings that are closer than that. Something that compares to "wherever I go I carry Greece with me". Can't think of one right now.

By the way: When you are a foreigner and first come to US the biggest hurdle is the sports language, because given that America has these unusual sports that you don't know either, you need to learn both the expression as well as the underlying sport that is referenced. Some you do intuitively understand of course, but others you don't and it can add up


This was my list from my first two days of work in US...yes it has been 18 years ago. I wrote it down because it was so surprising for me, and bit by bit I learned what they all meant:


We need to tackle this problem.
Hand-guesture during meeting that looks like a T (it means time-out), but nobody explained that to me.
Is this meeting over??? No this is just a seventh inning stretch.
This is like trying to steal third base.
This is so out in left field.
March Madness will be upon us by then.


....and this list was probably incomplete, because some stuff I probably missed, because I did not even understand that people were talking sports. It takes a while to get a handle on that side of life in the USA.

How this is related to Adam? Here is a question: Anybody ever heard him use a sports reference? I cannot recall even ONE. Yet, I cannot think of any man in my RL world here in the US of whom that could be said. All men seem to talk sports all the time, even when it is not about sports at all.
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Well, he did call for a huddle in that one pap vid,

Gelly and Hoopla, yes but these are false cognitives and they are so difficult for any non-native speaker to get right. In fact spies have been taken out by making those mistakes.

The American expression: "its all Greek to me" translates into many languages, but the language under discussion might be different...i.e. in German you would have to either say: it's all Spanish to me or it's all Chinese to me (Das ist alles spanisch fuer mich oder das ist alles chinesisch fuer mich).

On the other hand the Greek expression "for me everything is Greek" seems to mean something different altogether. If I understand Gelly right it is closer to saying...wherever there is apple pie there is home.....and you Americans can tell me whether you have any American sayings that are closer than that. Something that compares to "wherever I go I carry Greece with me". Can't think of one right now.

By the way: When you are a foreigner and first come to US the biggest hurdle is the sports language, because given that America has these unusual sports that you don't know either, you need to learn both the expression as well as the underlying sport that is referenced. Some you do intuitively understand of course, but others you don't and it can add up:

This was my list from my first two days of work in US...yes it has been 18 years ago. I wrote it down because it was so surprising for me, and bit by bit I learned what they all meant:


We need to tackle this problem.
Hand-guesture during meeting that looks like a T (it means time-out), but nobody explained that to me.
Is this meeting over??? No this is just a seventh inning stretch.
This is like trying to steal third base.
This is so out in left field.
March Madness will be upon us by then.

....and this list was probably incomplete, because some stuff I probably missed, because I did not even understand that people were talking sports. It takes a while to get a handle on that side of life in the USA.

How this is related to Adam? Here is a question: Anybody ever heard him use a sports reference? I cannot recall even ONE. Yet, I cannot think of any man in my RL world here in the US of whom that could be said. All men seem to talk sports all the time, even when it is not about sports at all.