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A bilingual joke:

A Spaniard walks into a clothes shop in England and to look for something, but he doesn't speak English, so the shop assistant keeps picking up items and saying "This one?" "No, no," replies the Spaniard. Finally the shop-assistant shows some socks and the Spaniard says "¡Eso sí que es!", and the frustrated shop-assistant huffed and said "If you could spell it why not say it in the first place?!"
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HA!!
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I sort of half get it, not knowing Spanish. :P
Sin ar Pàrras agus nì sinne mar a thogras sinn. Choisinn sinn e agus ’s urrainn dhuinn ga loisgeadh.
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¡Eso sí que es! = Yes, that's it!
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ol bofosh wrote:A bilingual joke:

A Spaniard walks into a clothes shop in England and to look for something, but he doesn't speak English, so the shop assistant keeps picking up items and saying "This one?" "No, no," replies the Spaniard. Finally the shop-assistant shows some socks and the Spaniard says "¡Eso sí que es!", and the frustrated shop-assistant huffed and said "If you could spell it why not say it in the first place?!"
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ol bofosh wrote:¡Eso sí que es! = Yes, that's it!
Also: eS Oh Cee Kay eS
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Basque joke (damn translation, I wrote it "Vasque" :mrgreen: ):

There's two Basque friends in a forest, Patxi and Iñaki, and they're boasting about how many trees they can chop down in a day.
Iñaki says "With this axe I can cut down 100 trees a day!"
His friend Patxi replies, "Well, I have a new machine called a chainsaw and with it I can cut down a thousand trees a day! Want to have a go?" Iñaki says yes and goes off with the chainsaw.
A day later they meet up again and Iñaki's not happy. "You lied to me, you said with this chainsaw you can cut down 1000 trees a day, but I only cut down 900!"
Patxi frowns and scratches his head, "I don't understand. Let's have a look and see what's wrong with it."
Patxi then pulls on the string and starts the engine, to which Iñaki says...

"Patxi, what's that noise?!"
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ol bofosh wrote:¡Eso sí que es! = Yes, that's it!
Ah, thankyou. ;)
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Two tomatoes are on the side of the road getting ready to cross. One tomato steps on the road and his friend says "Watch out for that car!"
"What?"...CHUP
"What?...CHUP

(sounds better in Spanish: "¿Qué?"...CHUP "¿Qué?"...CHUP)
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Ketchup?
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2-4 wrote:Ketchup?
Yep. [:D]
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I always loved homonym jokes because they make absolutely no sense when taken out of their native language.

This website has a few for Russian:
http://olgakagan.blog.com/2012/01/28/ho ... stierlitz/

My favorite would have to be "Штирлиц шёл по лесу и увидел голубые ели. Штирлиц присмотрелся и увидел, что голубые не только ели, но и пили."
“Stierlitz walked in a wood and saw blue spruces. On a closer view, the homosexuals not only ate, but also drank.”

I know about three words in Russian, but the simple un-funniness of this one in English is, somehow, far more hilarious than the joke itself. An explanation for it can be found on the website. Or perhaps a Russian speaker would care to explain? [:D]
Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.

:eng: :mrgreen: | :fra: [:)] | ASL [:S] | :deu: [:|] | :tan: [:(] | :nav: [:'(]
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kiwikami wrote:Or perhaps a Russian speaker would care to explain? [:D]
*drops down from the ceiling*
You called?
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Pirka wrote:
kiwikami wrote:Or perhaps a Russian speaker would care to explain? [:D]
*drops down from the ceiling*
You called?
Why wait for a reply to this for days, instead of explaining right away? :C
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A good question indeed!
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Well, I didn't feel like my explanation was really needed when the site had already explained the joke. So I was just peeking in just in case, I suppose.

But yeah. The joke is explained correctly on the site.
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The first Czech joke that ever made me laugh really hard: Plave ryba v medu a říká: "To je hustý!“ (A fish is swimming in honey, and he says, "It's thick!") It's totally stupid -- "hustý" is something Czech teenagers say to sort of express excitement/approval about something.
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Oh. The Germanic languages beside English use 'fat' for this. Nice.
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Skógvur wrote:Oh. The Germanic languages beside English use 'fat' for this. Nice.
English also, provided it's spelled "phat". (A neologism of late last century.)
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eldin raigmore wrote:
Skógvur wrote:Oh. The Germanic languages beside English use 'fat' for this. Nice.
English also, provided it's spelled "phat". (A neologism of late last century.)
A word that, sometimes, is actually PHAT, an acronym for: pretty hot and tempting. Usually used to describe a female, especially one of a non-white ethnic group.
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