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From: "Jürgen Hartmann" <juergen_hartmann_@hotmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:36:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DUB124-W320812E846C114CDC6F6C2A8A00@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fqwhsln.fsf@mbork.pl>

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

 		 	   		  


  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-23 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5388.1434915264.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-21 20:35 ` How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices* Emanuel Berg
2015-06-21 22:01   ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-21 22:46     ` [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*) Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-22  0:16       ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-22  9:19         ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-22 10:20           ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-22 11:44             ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5407.1434932215.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-22  0:33         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-23 20:13           ` Jürgen Hartmann
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5404.1434926802.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-21 23:25       ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-22 11:48         ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-23 20:36           ` Jürgen Hartmann [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5435.1434973706.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-22 20:58           ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-23 21:19             ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-22 10:46   ` How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices* Oleh Krehel
2015-06-27 11:34     ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-06-27 11:33   ` Jürgen Hartmann

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