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| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5308 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 1 of 53 24 August 2010 at 5:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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Jokes that only people like us will get :) Not so much jokes, but things that make sense to us language people, but would sound completely ludicrous to non-language people. Of course, jokes are fine, too.
For instance: Only in Polish can you cross your 'l's and dot your 'z's without being yelled at by the teacher. EDIT: Perhaps we should also give the meaning behind the joke, in case it pertains to a specific language, like mine does. Polish has an 'l' with a line through it which makes a 'w' sound, and a 'z' with a dot over it which makes a 'zh' sound. Edited by mashmusic11235 on 24 August 2010 at 5:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6078 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 2 of 53 26 August 2010 at 1:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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I remember this one:
In my country (Colombia), there's a typical soup called "Mondongo". It's delicious. There's an English speakers custom in a colombian restaurant and say: - Buenos días, Quisiera comer "luna, no te vayas" - ¿Perdón? - Quisiera comer "luna, no te vayas" - In English, please - I want to eat "Moon, Don't go" 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| pobere Triglot Groupie Germany language-learning-lo Joined 5165 days ago 83 posts - 114 votes Speaks: Romanian*, German, English | Message 3 of 53 26 August 2010 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"The German language is relatively easy. All those of us that know a derived language from Latin like Portuguese language and are used to conjugate some verbs can learn it quickly.." That's what the German language teacher said at the first lesson.
Let's go.... To illustrate such a simplicity, imagine that we will study an example. First, we take a book in German, in this case a magnificent and beautiful leathered book, published in Dortmund, and that is about the uses and way of life of the Australian Indians Hotentotes (in German, "Hottentotten"). I could swear that those Hotentotes were from Africa, well...I could be wrong, at last. The book teaches that the kangaroos (Beutelratten) are captured and put in cages (Kotter) covered with a canvas (Lattengitter) to protect them from the elements. Those cages, in German, are called "cages covered with canvas" (Lattengitterkotter) and, when they have inside a kangaroo, we call all the group as "cage covered with canvas with a kangaroo" (Lattengitterkotterbeutelratten). One day, the hotentotes arrested a murderer (Attentäter), accused of having killed the Hotentote (Hottentotter) mother (Mutter) (a Hottentottermutter) of a deaf and mute boy (Stottertrottel). That woman, in German, is called Hottentottenstottertrottelmutter and, her murderer, we call easily Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentäter. In the book, the Indians caught him and, without having where to put him, they used a kangaroo cage (Beutelrattenlattengitterkotter). But, incidentally, the prisoner escaped. After they began the search, quickly came up a Hotentote warrior screaming: - We caught the murderer (Attentäter)! - What?? - asked the chief. - Lattengitterkotterbeutelratterattentäter - the warrior answered. - Who? The murderer that was in the cage of kangaroos covered with canvas? - the chief of the Hotentotes asks. - Yes - answers the native with great difficulty - Hottentottenstottertrottelmutteratentäter (The murder of the deaf and mute boy's mother). - Ah - the chief says - you could have said since the beginning that you had caught the Hottentotterstottertrottelmutterlattengitterkotter beutelrattenattentäter! Got it? 10 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6078 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 4 of 53 26 August 2010 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There's another one, it has two versions
A Spanish lerner boy want to tell his Spanish speaker friend about a movie he has seen recently: - La semana pasada ví una película con dinosaurios: Tu culo es un parque - In English, please - last week I saw a movie about dinosaurs: Your ass is park! (the other version is "your ass is parked" = Tu culo está parqueado) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MichaelM204351 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5253 days ago 151 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 5 of 53 27 August 2010 at 4:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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@Pobere: That was hilarious! I couldn't help, but laugh out loud...
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| okjhum Pentaglot Groupie Sweden olle-kjellin.com Joined 5013 days ago 40 posts - 190 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Japanese, English, German, Russian Studies: Spanish, Polish, Greek | Message 6 of 53 27 August 2010 at 11:17am | IP Logged | |||||
Please, for us nonnative English users, is this an idiom, and what does it mean? :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| okjhum Pentaglot Groupie Sweden olle-kjellin.com Joined 5013 days ago 40 posts - 190 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Japanese, English, German, Russian Studies: Spanish, Polish, Greek | Message 7 of 53 27 August 2010 at 11:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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Recommended book: Language Play, by David Crystal.
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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5505 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 8 of 53 27 August 2010 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
Normally the phrase is "cross your t's and dot your i's" and it means to be thorough. In writing, the cross bar and the dot are usually written only after the words is written and if one is careless, may be forgotten (allegedly). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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