Puns and other wordplay
richardhall,2007年7月12日の
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jchthys (プロフィールを表示) 2009年3月20日 11:37:16
jchthys (プロフィールを表示) 2009年3月20日 11:37:16
ceigered (プロフィールを表示) 2009年3月20日 15:58:17
This makes me ask though - have bakeries, butchers, delicatessens, gourmet food stores and small independent grocers died out in the U.S.? I'm yet to have been there, but I get the general impression from our acxega uxalmarto amiko that there aren't many alternatives to the big guns. In Australia they are very common, often alongside supermarkets living in harmony.
Personally my favourite form of wordplay would be just to create increadibly stupid compound words (which I also do in English):
nemalbonistejo (Not badder place)
Cxielulmortrakontado (Sky-folk death narration) etc etc
I prefer doing it in English though, in Esperanto the problem is that grammatically better heirachy of english is not present.
Matthieu (プロフィールを表示) 2009年3月20日 16:14:15
Kiu lando havas ses laterojn? Kubo.
Which country has six sides? Cuba.
However I needed a little time to understand it. And I suddenly remembered that kubo is also a cube.
eikored85 (プロフィールを表示) 2009年3月20日 21:04:56
One silly one that I remember is that it's possible to make a purchase (aĉet-o) of an awful little thing (aĉ-eto).
Oh, and speaking of puns, in some varieties of English, if someone tells a bad joke, you can respond with "that joke was two-thirds of a pun". (I'm not sure if all English speakers will understand that )
LyzTyphone (プロフィールを表示) 2009年3月21日 3:52:10
Thanks everyone
>D. Esperado
It took me a while to figure out that one. Hah
For the wordplay
That is, where can a window block wind the best: Alberta, Canada
Because it's a fen-estro
Well that's not really a good one but just one related to the "8-place"...
russ (プロフィールを表示) 2009年3月21日 7:58:31
Mutusen:During IJK I heard this joke:Bedaŭrinde oni fuŝetis la teĥnikan lingvon en tiu ŝerco, eble pro ambiguo de la angla "side":
Kiu lando havas ses laterojn? Kubo.
Which country has six sides? Cuba.
However I needed a little time to understand it. And I suddenly remembered that kubo is also a cube.
Kvadrato havas 4 laterojn; kubo havas 6 edrojn.
Unfortunately someone messed up the technical language in that joke, maybe due to the ambiguity of the word "side":
A square has 4 sides (1-dimensional segments) (laterojn); a cube has 6 sides (2-dimensional faces) (edrojn).