L'humour et les langues étrangères.

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Português : comprendrez-vous en croisant les langues latines que vous connaissez?

- Dizem que todos temos um lado bonito.

- Então tu deves ser um círculo!

Español : gare aux jeux de mots !

• ¿Cuál es la fruta mas paciente? Es pera.
• ¿Qué le dice un techo (un toit) a otro? Techo de menos. 

English

We worked on different jokes in class to see why they were difficult to understand and translate : pun¹ or cultural knowledge? Have a look and decide:

• What is black and white and red all over? A newspaper. 
• Bono and the Edge walk into a bar in Dublin. The barman exclaims, "Not U2 again!!!" 
• “I took my pony to the vet yesterday : he has a sore throat”. “Oh, is he coughing a lot?” “No – but he is a little hoarse!”  
• “What does the Loch Ness Monster eat?” “Fish and Ships!”  
• Why do pipers walk while they play? To get away from the noise. 
• A man takes a pair of shoes back to the shop and complains that there is a lace missing. "No," argues the assistant, "look at the label - it says Taiwan." 
• I love summer here in Ireland. It's my favorite day of the year. 

Jokes created or selected by the 1BC pupils. Will you understand them?

• What is the only dog you can eat? A hot dog.
• There are two potatoes walking on a road, but one gets hit by a car, so the other says "oh a smashed potato".
• A teacher asked "1+1=?" to her pupils and they answered 2, but one of them didn't answer, so the teacher said to him if I give you 1 biscuit and another one, how many will you have?  He said 2 biscuits and a cup of tea please !
• "Peter do you think I am a Bad mother  ?" --> "Well my name is Andrew..."
• I'm so broke, if a robber was to rob me, all he'd get would be practice.
• What did the math book say to the guidance counsellor?  It needed help figuring out his problems.

Les blagues françaises que les élèves ont trouvées intraduisibles.

• Pourquoi les papiers se noient ? Car ils n'ont pas pied. 
• Qu'est-ce qu'y est jaune et qui attend ? Jonathan.
• Que dit une noix qui tombe dans l'eau ?  Je me noie.
•  C'est l'histoire d'un Schtroumpf qui se promène dans la forêt, il tombe et ce fait un bleu !
• Quel est le meilleur instrument ? La flûte répond le boulanger. 
• Un chat tombe dans un pot de peinture le jour de Noël et ça donne un chat-peint de Noël (sapin de Noël).

¹ “an amusing use of a word or phrase that has several meanings or that sounds like another word”. Cambridge dictionary.