The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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