Only joking!
Yesterday I stumbled upon a page containing jokes in Irish and was pleased to find that I could understand them and that I ‘got’ the jokes. Understanding humour in other languages can be quite difficult, especially when puns and plays on words are involved. When you can ‘get’ jokes in a foreign language, you know that you’ve reached quite a high level.
Here are some humour-related Irish words:
scéal grinn (funny story), cúis gháire (cause for laughter) = joke
cleas = dodge, fiddle, hoax, lark, ploy, practical joke, prank, stunt, trick
bob = hoax, practical joke, prank, trick
cleas a imirt ar, bob a bhualadh ar = to play a joke on
cleas suarach = dirty trick
ag magadh atá tú! = you’re joking!
gáire a bhaint as duine = to make somebody laugh
Do you know any sites with jokes in other languages?
12 Responses to “Only joking!”
Juliette on 20 Mar 2007 at 9:01 pm #
P.s.: I just noticed - after posting the previous comment, it still says “No responses” at the top of the comments section for this topic as well as on the homepage…. Is it meant to be like that ? or are you trying to tell me something ? ;-)
Bob on 20 Mar 2007 at 10:28 pm #
I know that there are several Yiddish speakers who frequent this blog. My understanding with Yiddish jokes is that you almost have to be a part of the culture to understand them. They reflect they some resignation, other times ingenuity of the culture against unsurmountable circumstances. I don’t speak Yiddish, any thoughts from those who do?
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The rabbi says, “What’s green, hangs on the wall, and whistles?”
The student says, “I don’t know.”
The rabbi says, “A herring.”
The student says, “Maybe a herring could be green and hang on the wall, but it absolutely doesn’t whistle.”
The rabbi says, “So it doesn’t whistle.”
Jeksi on 20 Mar 2007 at 10:44 pm #
Since I’m learning French, I could imagine that there would be a lot of jokes (with all its words that sound the same, like in Mandarin), but I don’t know of any right now.
Simon on 21 Mar 2007 at 12:04 pm #
Juliette - I’m not sure why the comments are behaving like that. It’s something to do with the settings.
Ronald Kyrmse on 21 Mar 2007 at 12:07 pm #
Jeksi: If you’re looking for puns in French, you could do worse than read the Astérix books in the original.
Declan on 21 Mar 2007 at 7:04 pm #
“Gréasán Idirlín” is website in Irish, not “Suíomh idirlín” (previous entry).
I liked those jokes and that site.
Laci the Hun on 21 Mar 2007 at 7:45 pm #
I know a site in Arabic www.123arab.com/nokat/top
nice jokes but you have to be familiar with some dialect differences
Juliette on 21 Mar 2007 at 10:36 pm #
Simon - it’s weird - I checked back here to see what other replies you’ve had and I see now that my first comment is gone completely….
Hmm.. oh well…
Here is the link I posted again: http://moppen.startpagina.nl/
It’s a link page with links to Dutch joke sites - I haven’t fetted the linked sites, so it will probably be a mix of the good, the bad and the downright crap ;-)
Mike on 22 Mar 2007 at 3:59 pm #
Here’s a Québécois site I read sometimes.
http://www.humourqc.com/
renato on 25 Mar 2007 at 6:07 pm #
Today I met a page named http://desciplo.pedia.ws
is a parodical page about the famous Wikipedia. I it intersting, I read that in Portuguese, but they say you can read it in English. As Simon kwnos Portuguese, a good site is www. charges.com.br it is Brazilian page of jokes with videos very funny.
renato on 25 Mar 2007 at 6:08 pm #
correction is http://www.charges.com.br
Santinasi on 05 Jun 2007 at 9:25 am #
Software Development Cycle
1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
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5. Repeat three times steps 3 and 4.
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7. Users find 137 new bugs.
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13. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free…
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A grade school teacher was asking his pupils what their parents did for a living. “Tim, you be first. What does your mother do all day?”
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