It's All Greek To Me

About this episode

This episode features an original song by Simon Ager that explores the theme of incomprehensibility through various languages.

This is a song I wrote in August 2025 based on the phrase 'it's all Greek to me' and other ways to say that something is incomprehensible in various languages. This recording was made by me, and features me singing and playing the tenor and baritone ukuleles, shaky egg and kazoo. The Greek phrases you hear at the beginning of the track are ways to say that something is not understood in Greek (generated by https://ttsconverter.io/): Εἶναι γιὰ μένα κινέζικα (It's Chinese to me), Εἶναι ἀλαμπουρνέζικα (It's gobbledygook) and Εν τούρτζικα που μιλάς; (Are you speaking Turkish?). You can find other translations of this phrase in various languages at: https://www.omniglot.com/language/idioms/incomprehensible.php Here are the words: It's all Greek to me It's all Greek to me I don't understand a single word It's all Greek to me It's all Greek to me and not my cup of tea It might as well be Double Dutch It really is too much I don't understand a thing It makes no sense to me It's all a load of gibberish It's all Greek to me It's like a Spanish village or a little Bohemian one or is it like a Russian town? It just makes me frown It's quite beyond me It's complete gobbledygook It must be…

People in this episode

Host: Simon Ager

Topics covered

• music
• language
• incomprehensibility
• cultural expressions
• songwriting

Keywords

• Greek
• incomprehensible
• ukulele
• song
• language idioms

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ttsconverter.io, omniglot.com

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