{"id":329,"date":"2007-03-20T17:41:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/20\/only-joking\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:41:55","slug":"only-joking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Only joking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I stumbled upon a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daltai.com\/articles\/grinn.htm\">page<\/a> containing jokes in Irish and was pleased to find that I could understand them and that I &#8216;got&#8217; the jokes. Understanding humour in other languages can be quite difficult, especially when puns and plays on words are involved. When you can &#8216;get&#8217; jokes in a foreign language, you know that you&#8217;ve reached quite a high level.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some humour-related Irish words:<\/p>\n<p>sc\u00e9al grinn (funny story), c\u00fais gh\u00e1ire (cause for laughter) = <em>joke<\/em><br \/>\ncleas = <em>dodge, fiddle, hoax, lark, ploy, practical joke, prank, stunt, trick<\/em><br \/>\nbob = <em>hoax, practical joke, prank, trick<\/em><br \/>\ncleas a imirt ar, bob a bhualadh ar = <em>to play a joke on<\/em><br \/>\ncleas suarach = <em>dirty trick<\/em><br \/>\nag magadh at\u00e1 t\u00fa! = <em>you&#8217;re joking!<\/em><br \/>\ng\u00e1ire a bhaint as duine = <em>to make somebody laugh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you know any sites with jokes in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I stumbled upon a page containing jokes in Irish and was pleased to find that I could understand them and that I &#8216;got&#8217; the jokes. Understanding humour in other languages can be quite difficult, especially when puns and plays on words are involved. When you can &#8216;get&#8217; jokes in a foreign language, you know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}