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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4656 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes  Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 65 of 76 27 February 2013 at 9:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Polish also has variations on the plum joke, since in Polish 'zielony' is both "green" and "unripe".
I can only remember two Polish jokes. 1) Q: How do you say finger in French? A: /ãw paʒyl/ ("Ą pażil" in Polish spelling, with a French i sound) 2) Q: How do you say car in Chinese? A: Sam go pcham go Explanations: 1) Polish word for finger is "palec" and the faux French sounds very similar) 2) Polish for "car" is "samochód", and most of the sounds remain in the faux Chinese version. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5871 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 66 of 76 27 February 2013 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Exactly the same in English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kovajätkä Diglot Newbie Italy Joined 4268 days ago 3 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Italian | Message 67 of 76 27 March 2013 at 11:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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My favorite Finnish joke:
Kaksi miesta puhui yhdessä. Yksi sanoi että hänellä oli ollut kova riita hänen vaimonsa kanssa. Toinen kysyi, "Sanoiko hän pahasti sinulle?" Vastasi: "Ei vaan hyvästi ja lähti." In English: Two men were speaking with each other. One said that he had had a terrible argument with his wife. The other asked, "Did she say something bad (paha=bad, pahasti would turn it into an adverb)?" Answered: "No, good(ly) and left." (Hyvä=good, hyvästi would turn it into an adverb, but hyvästi really means farewell in Finnish.) It always slays the crowd when I tell this. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DougEd Newbie Australia Joined 5205 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 68 of 76 30 March 2013 at 10:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Not sure if this fits, but I was always partial to the following exchange in Fawlty Towers between Basil and the arch
Mrs Peignoir: Basil: Voilà sommes-nous. Café pour vous. Mrs Peignoir: 'Vous'? Pas 'pour toi'? Basil: No, I'll probably have one later. (and of course, not to forget: "Wir wollen ein Auto mieten" becoming "Oh, I see! You're volunteering to go out to get some meat!") 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rollo Diglot Senior Member Joined 4755 days ago 11 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Russian | Message 69 of 76 13 April 2013 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I overheard this one at a fondue place in Paris (sigh...long time ago).
a Frenchman goes out to dinner while on vacation in England. he orders a steak, and the waiter asks how he wants it cooked. The Frenchman doesn't know the correct translation of "saignant", so he says "bloody". The waiter comes back, throws the plate onto the table and says "here's your bloody steak, how do you want your @#%!#$ potatoes??" 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| BrianDeAlabama Groupie United States Joined 4524 days ago 89 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 70 of 76 23 April 2013 at 9:09am | IP Logged | ||
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(Spanish Joke)
Did you hear about the 4 Mexicans who drowned while trying to swim across the Rio Grande to come to America? The Newspaper headline read, "Cuatro Sinko". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| bela_lugosi Hexaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 6459 days ago 272 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English, Finnish*, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish Studies: Russian, Estonian, Sámi, Latin | Message 71 of 76 01 June 2013 at 12:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Here in Finland we like to tell jokes about Swedish people who are considered a little stupid... so here's one:
A Finnish guy suffers from migrain and wants to solve the problem by removing a small part of his frontal brain area so he goes to a local hospital to have this kind of surgery performed on him. When he wakes up from anaesthesia after the operation, he sees the surgeon standing beside his bed. The surgeon says: "I'm terribly sorry but we made a mistake during the operation. Instead of having only 5% of your brain area removed we took away nearly 90% of your brain..." The man happily answers: "Det gör ingenting!" (Or, "Oh, it doesn't matter" in English) ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 72 of 76 01 June 2013 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I've heard this joke about a Russian who wanted to become American... he woke up and said ei se mitään...............
(it was on a Russian site for those who love Finland and the Finnish language, and it's presumed that most people reading the site know the basic words like hei, terve, kiitos, anteeksi) Edited by Serpent on 01 June 2013 at 12:51am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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