The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116859   Message #2513316
Posted By: Artful Codger
12-Dec-08 - 04:13 AM
Thread Name: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
Subject: RE: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
Mozart (to make this thread more musically relevant) was well-known for making bilingual puns and scatalogical jokes. A famous example of combining the two is his canon "Difficile lectu mihi Mars" (Latin: the study of history is difficult); in German, "lecht Du mich im Arsch" means "lick my ass".