{"id":27730,"date":"2013-11-04T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=27730"},"modified":"2013-10-25T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T20:41:03","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-gringos-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-gringos-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Where do gringos come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Foreign<\/a>There was a time when Greek was the universal language of civilized Europeans. By the Middle Ages, however, Latin had become dominant to the point that some monastery scribes, when faced with a text that needed translating, would simply write a note in Latin saying, \u201cIt is Greek. It cannot be read.\u201d It was Shakespeare who helped formalize our English version of the phrase in Julius Caesar<\/i>: \u201cIt was Greek to me.\u201d But English isn\u2019t the only language that adopted this idiom. In Spanish, when someone is impossible to understand, you might say, \u201chablar en griego.\u201d The phrase came with the Spaniards to the New World, and over time the word for \u201cGreek\u201d transformed into \u201cgringo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It was Shakespeare who helped formalize our English version of the phrase in Julius Caesar: \u201cIt was Greek to me.\u201d But English isn\u2019t the only language that adopted this idiom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":27735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}