BS: Jokes people don't get

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 10:06 AM

CROSS-CULTURAL TIP

We are WIRED to "hear" other cultures, and it's easy enough to pick up an ear for another culture's speech. Just download a free audiobook at Librivox read by a person from another culture and you can soon make most of it out if you relax and don't try too hard. THEN you can get in the door in conversation to sort out the confusions!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 10:31 AM

Frogprince, you get it yet?

We hear what we expect to hear. Some Americans don't get irony, but then it's really easy for an American who uses it to not be understood by a Brit who doesn't expect an American to do such a thing.

I had a friend I'm convinced thought it was the funniest thing in the world to tell people a "joke" that just wasn't funny, and then watch them try to get it. "It's funny because it's not funny? OK, well, whatever..."

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 11:01 AM

Yo, Jeri; ya, finally, finally, last evening it clicked for me. I was pretty sure it was just about the flow of sound, but I had very little idea of how a lot of it really should sound in French.

I took it along to the local Tim's where we hang out most mornings, and asked if anybody could read French. No takers today, but someone said that one woman who does will probably be there tomorrow, so will see if I can get her to read it aloud for them, & see who catches on first.

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 11:11 AM

I don't get it yet, Jeri, either!

Then there's the old standard Ladle Rat Rotten Hut for the monolingual Americans.

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 11:39 AM

I have no idea how to sound out French, so I'll have to wait.


Bert... MY version was on a card on the wall of my Psychology professor in college in 1957... in the US, of course. Them lorez am BritLatin.

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Bert
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 11:46 AM

Another Brit one for you Bill.

L O L O
A Q I C
I 8 2 Q
B 4 I P

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 12:07 PM

Spoiler:
For those who can't work it out: "un petit, d'un petit", but don't do it until you've had somebody try reading it to you in a fakey French accent.

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 12:48 PM

Then there was this joke my dad used to tell to great silence, except for once when one person got it.

An eagle was flying high in the sky when he met a soul. Ah, Eagle, said the soul by way of greeting. The eagle, being a discreet bird, said nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 01:49 PM

Mrrzy, I kinda surprised myself by catching that one, at least after just a momentary blink.

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 05:03 PM

Good one ~~ but won't work in an American accent, I suspect.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 05:11 PM

I found i could finally post when i got a rount tuit

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 05:14 PM

Or i have just returned from the Punic wars with the sweet smell of suksex or Soixant Niff as the more bilingual might say


Bi4 now

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Mo the caller
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 01:53 PM

Memories from childrens parties in my youth - the game "the moon is round"
We'd sit in a circle,and pass round a pointer, each had to recite in turn, with suitable actions "the moon is round, it has 2 eyes a nose and a mouth can you do this?" And those in the know would say yes or no. Gradually more and more 'got' it and the actions would get more exagerated.

Then there was the riddle
If the B mt put:
If the B. putting :

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 02:32 PM

L O L O
A Q I C...

Bert... I am JUST cognizant in BritSpeak to get that one. We almost never hear "Q" here, so it is mainly thru Mudcat that it registers.

ABCD goldfish
LMNO goldfish
OSAR goldfish

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: G-Force
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 02:45 PM

. . . CDBD eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 04:05 PM

Funex ( more two Ronnies madness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ

Subject: RE: BS: Jokes people don't get
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 04:12 PM

Sorry, wasn't logged in.