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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5322 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 5 02 January 2014 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | ||
As a happy member of HTLAL, I found this absolutely hilarious. But then again, I like laughing at myself. :-)
The Onion has a real genius for social satire. The closest French equivalent is probably Le Gorafi, which is funny, but rarely as brilliant as The Onion. Personally, I spend more time reading Topito, which was recommended by sctroyenne. What are your favorite satire and humor sites in your various languages? Edited by emk on 02 January 2014 at 6:46pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5389 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 5 02 January 2014 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you replaced "mustard" by "languages", you would get a description of HTLAL.
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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 3 of 5 02 January 2014 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm really surprised that one isn't true. I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find
an internet group of obsessed mustard enthusiasts (especially given how foodie trends work). Le Gorafi can be quite brilliant sometimes but they also will go for easy humor quite a bit. Le Canard Enchaîné is the original French satire news publication and they blow The Onion out of the water (they even break stories) but they've been very reluctant about establishing a presence on the internet). Another one in the same vein as Le Gorafi is Biblioquet Magazine. They tend to go for more subtle humor (though not always). There's also Charlie Hebdo which I've never gotten into. They seem to go more for shock value and they're one of the papers that likes to publish cartoons of Mohammed despite the risk of bombing (and their offices were indeed fire bombed). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4493 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 4 of 5 02 January 2014 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Netherlands has De Speld.
A good article they published recently: "Dutch government wants to know why Prime Minster Mark Rutte's phone hasn't been tapped by NSA" Edited by Hekje on 02 January 2014 at 8:20pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5018 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 5 of 5 02 January 2014 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since this is a language site, someone should post a link to the Speculative Grammarian, a joke linguistic journal. A Reinterpretation of Some Aspects of the Indo-European Expansion is my favorite.
It's certainly not to everyone's taste--but if you find the following as funny as I do, check it out. "In recent years, Marija Gimbutas’ claim that the original IEs were in fact the Khurgan culture of the steppes has gained wide acclaim, since it positions the Urheim in an area that no-one wants to claim anyway and thus reduces friction at important Indo-Europeanist social events. In addition, the Khurgani were apparently a rather vigorous bunch, whose major artifacts were (a) hand axes and (b) rapidly built tombs, both of which are consistent with the traditional view of the IEs. "There are several problems with this scenario, however, foremost of which is the fact that the warlike expansion hypothesis was originally formulated by 19th century Germans, who also proposed that the spread of glaciers during the ice-age was the result of the military superiority of northern ice floes as compared to decadent Mediterranean lakes, and who invented the term “spirited attainment of autochthon-nonvoluntary advisorial status”, which in German constitutes a single word of such breathtaking length and consonantal density that many opponents of said attainment strangled in the act of attempting to oppose it. In addition, Indo-Europeans had a plethora of words for (a) trees, and (b) pigs, neither of which are found in notable profusion in the steppes and which certainly were not particularly valued by the Khurgani, who liked to gallop uninhibitedly about spiritedly advising those in their path and, according to Gimbutas, beating up feminists." 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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