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.

.... & see Le Canard Enchaîné passim. The current issue has a topical
jokelet on p 1:

Comment baptiser l'agence de sécurité contre la grippe aviaire?
Interpoule!

The CE also includes long-standing visual puns ("Le mur du çon") &
spoonerisms ("contrepèteries"): "Les jeunes filles aiment jouer au
tennis en pension" etc etc.

Nigel

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