Homophonous Phrases in several languages Автор темы: Jeff Whittaker
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| | Barbara Wiegel 
Германия
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английский => немецкий
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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.
| | | | Jack Doughty
Великобритания
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русский => английский
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Памяти
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
Нидерланды
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немецкий => голландский
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ЛОКАЛИЗАТОР САЙТА | 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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| | | | absciarretta
Норвегия
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A funny sentence in Norwegian:
Var det det det var? (Is that what it was?)
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