Sonarliv : le jargon du charabia, Gobbledigook - SIGUR ROS

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• In French, the slang word for gobbledygook is "le charabia". It is used informally in conversations.
• Germans call it "technical Chinese" (Fachchinesisch).
• In Spanish, you can say "hablar en chino" (speaking Chinese).
• In Greek, when one talks with nonsensical, specialized or generally uncommon word choices, he is said to speak in Arabic ("Alhambranese") (αλαμπουρνέζικα, alambournezika).
• The equivalent phrase to the English "It's all Greek to me!" is "You're speaking Chinese (κινέζικα, ki'nezika)!"
• In Italian, the term used is "to speak Arabic" (parlare arabo). "Politichese" (political jargon) and "Burocratese" (bureaucracy jargon) are also widely used. The term "supercazzola" can be used too; it comes from the movie Amici miei, where it refers to a prank consisting of a series of meaningless, fast-spoken phrases; the word itself is meaningless.
• Portuguese speakers describe a person speaking incomprehensibly as talking Greek (estou a falar grego?), Latin (isto para mim é latim) or Chinese (eu falei chinês?).
• Three similar-meaning words appear in Russian: "Beliberda" (Белиберда), "Tarabarshchina" (Тарабарщина) and "Abracadabra" (Абракадабра). Grammatically, they work in a similar way to a language, and refer to nonsense talk. In addition, the phrase "kitaiskaya gramota" (Китайская грамота, "Chinese writing") is used. There is also the word "канцелярит" (kantselyarit), meaning "office language"; this word means the bureaucratic gobbeldygook.
• In colloquial Arabic, when someone talks that way he is referred as "speaking in Indian". In Levantine Arabic dialects and some other Arabic dialects, people explicitly refer to Sanskrit as a "non-sense language".