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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Know good puns (is that an oxymoron?) that require bits of two or more languages? For example, every Canadian schoolchild knows the Franglais joke:
Q: Why do French people only eat one egg for breakfast? A: Because one egg is un oeuf. Surely you can do better. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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blwrjw Regular user The Top of the Mountains 177 Posts |
This one is a little dated due to advancement in the video game market but I knew a clever hispanic lady who would always reply to her kids comments/questions about them: "No nintendo."
B.
...before you go rushing off to show your friends a new field of miracles, you should get well acquainted with tools of the trade.
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abc Inner circle South African in Taiwan 1081 Posts |
The problem with multilingual jokes are that you either need a knowledge of the second language and/or the other culture. I can give you 10 jokes I make regularly about and in Chinese but they would be lost without context or knowledge of the language.
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Dave V Inner circle Las Vegas, NV 4824 Posts |
Sorry if it's not a pun. I just felt it was worth repeating. I think this came from Bill Palmer, I'm not sure. Whoever told it, it's still my favorite:
An American couple was traveling in Germany and saw a man urinating on the side of the road. Disgusted by this she exclaimed "Gross!" The man turned and replied "Danke!"
No trees were killed in the making of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts |
I had something happen while performing that involved two language, two meanings.
I don't remember the language they spoke, but two guys kept saying what sounded like "how." I figured they were asking, but turned out, in their language, they were basically saying "cool."
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
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On 2011-02-05 13:19, abc wrote: True, but sometimes a cursory knowledge of the language is enough. I think most people here would get, say, an English/German joke involving NINE and NEIN. Besides, many of these jokes can serve as mnemonics, and help advance your learning of the language. |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
My dad went to pick up an engineer and that fellows wife and youngster in Tokyo. They had tried teaching the girl, she was about three, some words and she was impressed w/ the word 'domo' which means basically 'thanks'. The girl midunderstood and thought the word was 'dumbo' like the elephant. My dad said she walked around to everyone, bowed, and said "dumbo" and the Japanese were beyond thrilled w/ her.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2011-02-05 16:00, Scott Cram wrote: Like the oldie but a baddie... 12 guys from (insert favorite English-speaking country you want to make fun of) were attacking a German woman. She started screaming, "Nein! Nein!" So 3 of them left.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts |
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On 2011-02-05 17:34, MagicSanta wrote: That's cute. My family lived in Japan briefly when I was 8 and my sister was 5. We were practically bleached blonde, blue eyes, so we stood out a bit. Young kids there would be eager to show us the English they knew. It was quite common to have conversations that consisted of nothing more than "I'm hungry" repeated.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
I won't forget you Robert. |
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Whit Haydn V.I.P. 5449 Posts |
Louis V, Pour Lui
Jeanne D'Arc, need a light in here... |
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MobilityBundle Regular user Las Vegas/Boston 120 Posts |
How about stuff that rhymes in two languages?
"Morgen morgen, nur nichte heute" sagen allen faulen Leute or "Tomorrow, tomorrow, but not today" is what all the lazy people say. |
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Axelchen Elite user Germany 413 Posts |
...just besides, "nice" typo: "nichte" is the german word for "niece", "not" is just "nicht"....
Best regards Axel |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
"Knock knock:"
"Who's there?" "Schatzi" "Schatzi who?" "Schatzi friggin door--it's freezing in here!" OK, maybe it's not hilarious, but it's a bilingual knock knock joke. What could you expect? |
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cfrye Special user Portland, Oregon, USA 940 Posts |
A Spanish-speaking woman walks into an Oregon department store to buy some socks. She looks around, but can't find a clerk who speaks Spanish. A clerk helps her around the store and, eventually, they find a bin of socks. "Eso si que es!" exclaimed the customer. To which the clerk replied, "Why didn't you tell me you knew how to spell it?"
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Here's one that is funny to Anglophone children learning French, but is usually not understood by Francophone children learning English.
Q: There was an English cat named "one two three" and a French cat named "un deux trois". They tried to cross the river but only one made it. Which one? A: The English cat because un deux trois cat sank. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
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On 2011-02-09 09:12, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: HA! I had to say it out loud before I got it. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2011-02-09 05:43, cfrye wrote: First rate, sir.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On 2011-02-09 05:43, cfrye wrote: Needed a dictionary, but very funny!
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Axelchen Elite user Germany 413 Posts |
Ok, fellows, the next (pseudo-)french sentence can be understood if you know something about (bavarian-)german prononciation:
si, dans de fils d´avec, si laquelle, si d´ami cher! sorry for the few that don´t know about the german language.... best regards Axel |
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Erwin New user 56 Posts |
This one's sort of tangential, but Talking Heads sang Psycho Killer: what's that in French.
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