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RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispel
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Jürgen Hartmann |
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RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*) |
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Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:36:35 +0200 |
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> I like language-based jokes a lot. (How about this: a female student of
> humanities ask her female friend studying CS about dating prospects at
> her faculty. The answer? "The odds are good, but the goods are
> odd.";-))
LOL! Nice pun.
An IMHO also admirable genre of language-based humor (not quite jokes) is
that of shaking rhymes--I don't know whether this is the right term for them:
related lines of these rhymes contain phrases whose syllables or just single
letters are swapped like in spoonerisms. Example:
From rose to rose they flutter by,
hummingbird and butterfly.
or
He couldn't find a parking space,
and this reduced his sparking pace.
(Both found on http://schuettelreime.at.)
And they cannot be translated. Try!
Juergen
- RE: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*, (continued)
- RE: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*, Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/21
- [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/21
- RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/21
- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/22
- RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/22
- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/22
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- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Emanuel Berg, 2015/06/21
- RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/23
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- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Emanuel Berg, 2015/06/21
- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/22
- RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*),
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- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Emanuel Berg, 2015/06/22
- RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/23
Re: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*, Oleh Krehel, 2015/06/22
RE: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*, Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/27