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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5053 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 1 of 5 22 October 2013 at 11:29pm | IP Logged |
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Perhaps someone can explain. A friend of mine just said this to me, and I haven't a clue.
que le dijo la mona al mono? vamonos! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4115 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 2 of 5 22 October 2013 at 11:39pm | IP Logged |
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"What did the [female] monkey say to the [male] monkey?"
--"Let us (we monkeys) go" But notice that Vamonos can be split into "Va monos", which is just a pun with "monos" (we monkeys) from previously. To be honest I do not find it funny, and the wordplay is not funny either. But I suppose that might also be because I do not really like humour. Edited by 1e4e6 on 22 October 2013 at 11:42pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5053 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 3 of 5 23 October 2013 at 3:04pm | IP Logged |
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I'm still mystified, but I'll live. Thanks.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4532 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 5 23 October 2013 at 3:21pm | IP Logged |
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It is just a terrible pun.
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| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4159 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 5 of 5 24 October 2013 at 4:49am | IP Logged |
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It's not exclusive to Venezuela. I've heard it said by Latins all over the place.
Also, two things: - As 1e4e6 said, "Vamonos" can be split into "Va monos". Some (actually the majority) of the people I've heard say this suck the 'va' out of the word in other to make it sound like monos but keeping the meaning of vamonos. - It's not a joke and it's not supposed to be funny. It's just a pun many people say in place of "let's go", and the actual point of the monos pun is to have one person ask and the other person respond, not to have the one person say the whole thing like a joke. Therefore, next time someone asks you the first part ("¿qué le dijo la mona al mono?"), answer with "monos". If they know you're foreign, you'll look like a cultured connoisseur in Latin American wordplay. ;) 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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