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Cool tip! Too bad they don't have Japanese... But I only know less than conversational speech and not the writing, past "OK" and "Cancel". :)
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Hayley1311 wrote:
At university I studied the Language of Humour < I'm a BA English student.
Without being too technical, most verbal humour uses pre-obtained knowledge or wordplay.
Pre-obtained - what's grey and has a trunk > a mouse going on holiday (whereas your suppose to think elephant)
Wordplay - using two/to/too etc which only widely appear in the English language
So pre-obtained is easier to translate
I bet that was fascinating! When I was taking French, my French teacher said that the English "You are pulling my leg." should probably be translated as "You are putting me in a box." French speakers, was he pulling our leg. :lol:
