Re: Language-based humor


"Jacques Guy" wrote...
> Marc Frisch wrote:
> >
> > There's a certain type of humor that is based on ambiguity, which is
> > IMHO very common both in the German and the English language.
> >
> > I've been living in France for more than a year now and I'm desperately
> > trying to have a laugh once in a while, but this kind of humor doesn't
> > seem to exist in the French language
>
> You must be mixing with the wrong crowd. Here is one,
> dating from my high-school days:
>
> Pourquoi Pierre le Grand a-t-il créé la Moldavie?
>
> Pour que les petits slaves l'habitent.

Or the Franglais one:

De quel couleur a ete le cheval blanc de Napolean?

Gris.

Skraedder

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