In Finnish we have “kissanristiäiset” (literally means a cat’s christening), which means some trivial and meaningless celebration/event.

  • dave@hal9000
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    1 year ago

    It appears many languages have an equivalent to this, and many like English, point to Greek with “It’s Greek to me” - and the Greek say “it’s Chinese to me” and apparently the Chinese say “it’s heavenly script”. Here’s an interesting chart showing where many languages point for something incomprehensible. Source

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      21 year ago

      Wow, very cool chart! I think in Germany, they say it’s Bohemian village (which means Czech village), but I’m not a German speaker.