Homophonous Phrases in several languages 스레드 게시자: Jeff Whittaker
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| | | VERY interesting and entertaining! | Jun 6, 2007 |
Thanks for the link!
My favorite:
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Comedian Daniel Tosh suggests naming a restaurant "Thank You For Calling, How May I Help You?", so that when customers call the restaurant, the employees must say, "Thank you for calling Thank You For Calling, How May I Help You?, how may I help you?"
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Cheers,
Barbara
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I've met people with the surname "Doctor" who had PhDs, so the correct form of addressing them would be "Doctor Doctor". And if their PhD was in Medicine you could still say "Doctor Doctor is a doctor" or something to that effect.
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In German, someone who has two Doctor qualifications can be addressed as Herr Doktor Doktor, e.g. "Herr Doktor Doktor Schmidt-Schmidt von Baden-Baden".
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| Rainer Zufall | Jun 6, 2007 |
Jack Doughty wrote:
In German, someone who has two Doctor qualifications can be addressed as Herr Doktor Doktor, e.g. "Herr Doktor Doktor Schmidt-Schmidt von Baden-Baden".
This reminds me of several jokes about the German male name Rainer Zufall. The first name is OK, and the family name is also existing, but the combination is weird.
Literally it means "purely accident" (seen as "reiner Zufall"), a signal that little Rainer was a not a planned baby.
| | | | Henk Peelen 
네델란드
Local time: 11:26
회원(2003)
독일어에서 네덜란드어
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사이트 로컬라이저 | Multiple-double Dutch: Dutch dutch Dutch? | Jun 6, 2007 |
In Dutch actually all infinitives end on -en, and most nouns as well, which makes it easy to build homophonous phrases.
for instance:
to inherite = erven
heirs = erven (akin to English orphans)
plural of estate, property, premises = erven (among others)
So, if heirs do inherite estates from their parents who did inherite it from their parents, it could read
if heirs from heirs inherite heritage estates, heirs inherite heritage estates from heirs =
als er... See more In Dutch actually all infinitives end on -en, and most nouns as well, which makes it easy to build homophonous phrases.
for instance:
to inherite = erven
heirs = erven (akin to English orphans)
plural of estate, property, premises = erven (among others)
So, if heirs do inherite estates from their parents who did inherite it from their parents, it could read
if heirs from heirs inherite heritage estates, heirs inherite heritage estates from heirs =
als erven van erven ervenerven erven, erven erven ervenerven van erven.
Little bit tricky: though ervenerven for heritage estates aint wrong, you won't find any Google hits for it.
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노르웨이
Local time: 11:26
회원(2008)
영어에서 노르웨이어
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A funny sentence in Norwegian:
Var det det det var? (Is that what it was?)
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