Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !uspolitics@lemmy.world
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
8) No Bots.
Posts or comments from bots, LLM's, AIs, Neural Networks, Transformers, or Marvin the Paranoid Android are not welcome in AskLemmy. Real humans only please.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
My favorite french nonsense is "je suis une fermier des paumplemousses et j’aime faire de l'alpinisme“ because it was all on the same vocabulary page and that sentence was how I could remember it.
Not much opportunity to work "I am a grapefruit farmer and I like mountaneering" into casual conversation. Not very handy when traveling, either. Just generally not useful. But fun!
Hah, that is a delightful one!
There's a joke I'd tried off and on to make happen over the past 25 years. My stepmother (mom died after I was an adult, dad remarried) is a delightful half-Swedish half-Norwegian - who married a Hispanic the first time around, so to hear her speak Spanish with a Swedish accent is quite hilarious. But thanks to her, I somehow learned that "absolut hinte" (I think I misspelled that) means "absolutely not". So I was trying to work on a pun about absolute hentai and never could get a good setup. The only joke I could ever get working was something about someone offering someone else a glass of vodka, and the other person saying "absolut hinte", being a teetotaller - to pun on the vodka brand Absolut. lol. Ah, well.
But if you're not already a fan of Suzy (preivously Eddie) Izzard, oh boy do I have a video for you. Including one of my favorite jokes in a foreign language, which I believe is something like he goes into a hotel and asks, "Do you have any rooms?" and the clerk says "Of course we do. We're a hotel." lol. It's something like that, anyway. I do not speak French, although that reminds me of my favorite French joke outside the hotel one, which is:
Q: How do you pick up old French ladies?
A: "Voul et vous crochet avec moi?"
hehe
Anyway, the standup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sQkEfAdfY
I did not know they made the change. Their Dressed to Kill special remains one of my all time favorite standup specials!
Le sange et sur la branche!
You reminded me of the multilingual pun I made up which is the idea for a grocery store in the US named Fat Cherry Gros Cerise or some similar.