Hello #Vivers! Have you ever heard the expression “not even knowing J”? It is an expression widely used in Spain but normally students who come to our courses to learn Spanish in Madrid find it a bit strange.
We usually use this expression, “I don't know a thing” or “I don't understand a thing,” when someone has no idea about something, doesn't know about a certain topic or doesn't understand it, but what is the origin of this expression?
The letter 'j' comes from primitive Middle Eastern languages such as Hebrew, Chaldean and Syriac. The predecessors of this letter were the Greek iota and the Hebrew yod. These were the smallest of the 22 letters used in those languages. Furthermore, in the case of Hebrew, the yod was the beginning or the first feature of each of the letters of the alphabet.
Therefore, to say that someone 'does not know a thing' means that he does not know or know the smallest letter, nor the most insignificant thing; In short, he is ignorant.
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