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  1. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    You gotta love the English Language!
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    In what other language could opposites like Manslaughter and Man’s laughter be so close?
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    How about complete opposites that are spelled the same, “I resign!” it’s like Aloha, or Shalom, if I leave after I said it, it means I resign!
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    You gotta love it!

  2. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 4 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    How about “therapist” and “the rapist”?

  3. MortyForTyrant

    MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    Every language has it’s pitfalls. I can’t come up with a German idiom, phrase or word that requires context right now, but I’ve ran into conversations – mostly drunk – where I had to quickly rephrase the last sentence in order to not have to carry my teeth back home in my hat…

  4. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    Ich Bein ein Berliner What? You’re a Jelly doughnut?
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    I know it was Nabokov I think the words were Corova, Corona, Corola were equal to crow, crown and clown? The same three letters being the difference between the words in English and Russian. (I think it was in Pale Fire).
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    English is German with spaces between the words.
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    Dr Canuck,
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    For that I curse you with this I’m confident you’ll get the connection.

  5. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 4 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    ^ ….I don’t get it….

  6. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    You did get the connection; right?

  7. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 4 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    ^ Not at all. I NEVER lose at Jeopardy.

  8. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    Not you, the “Therapists” The Rapists" joke comes from a skit on SNL where Sean Connery is a contestant on Jeopardy. A “greatest hits” Compilation

  9. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 4 months ago

    @ReasonsVentriloquist

    Never saw it. Will Ferrell comes on my TV, my TV goes “off.”

  10. bhinkle

    bhinkle said, 4 months ago

    The pork belongs in both frames.
    Sad but true.

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