It's Greek to me, but what is it to Greeks when they don't know what it is?

[essentialsaltes]

The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility

(Spotted at strangemaps)

Comments

[gotham-bound.livejournal.com]

Hyksos-ian?

[marlo.livejournal.com]

Language Log totally wins.

[swmartin.livejournal.com]

Is it meaningful that the French are the only group which have THREE different languages to be "Greek to me"?

And while it's no surprise that lots of people use Chinese as the exmplar of incomprehensibility, why the hell did the Slavs of central Europe chose Spanish?!