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Re: OT: a little midweek humor -- Proper English
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:47:28 -0600
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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Tom Emerson
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>Someone pointed out that it's been said that "puns are only found in
>English", yet examples in other languages abound -- while I don't have the
>slightest clue about reading or speaking Thai, I would presume jokes based
>on words that sound similar when spoken would "lose something in the
>translation" ;)

Obelix, staunch companion of Asterix the Gaul, has a dog called Idefix.

In the English translations, Idefix is referred to as Dogmatix.

This is one pun that actually *gains* in the translation.......

--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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