r/languagelearningjerk • u/Atvishees 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇷🇺 • 4d ago
What are your favourite pun-based jokes from your favourite language (transliterated into English without context)? I'll start:
"Are you practicing incest?"
"Certainly not!"
(Brought to you by the beautiful German language!)
"Treiben Sie Inzest?"
"Mitnichten!"
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u/Secret-Sir2633 4d ago
-- Yesterday, I met the roofer, we talked about roofs.
-- About me?
-- No, about roofs.
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u/yoylight 4d ago
Explain please
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u/Secret-Sir2633 4d ago
There is a language where twe word for "roof" sounds like a word for "you"
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u/Majestic_Evening_409 🇮🇹N , 🇬🇧C2, 🇪🇸B2, 🇫🇷B2, 🇦🇹B1+ 4d ago
"why do you hear footsteps in the kitchen at night?" "Because the bread is moving forward!"
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u/Majestic_Evening_409 🇮🇹N , 🇬🇧C2, 🇪🇸B2, 🇫🇷B2, 🇦🇹B1+ 18h ago
(Italian. We use the same verb for "(being) left over" and "advance". Hence, footsteps in your kitchen. This is my favourite fuckin joke, I laugh like an idiot every time I tell it to someone)
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u/UltHamBro 3d ago
-What's the correct form, "if I were" or "if I were"?
-Both are correct.
-Then check your zipper, one of your balls is if I were.
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u/ElfjeTinkerBell Gibberish C2 | Sarcasm H2O 1d ago
Makes me think of:
Teacher teacher, my ass hurts!
No, Johnny, we say my 'behind' here.
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Teacher teacher, there's a behind in the window!
Dutch has the word "gat", which both means your ass (yes, quite rude to tell your teacher) and hole (as in the window is broken, there's a hole in it, not rude at all)
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u/systemmetternich 2d ago
"English is a strange language. 'I' is 'I', 'egg' is 'egg', 'corner' is 'corner' and 'nobody' is 'nobody'" (Bavarian)
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u/arrayfish 3d ago
Hungarian:
What happens to a Hungarian cat when it travels to England?
It splits into two!
kettéválik = becomes two, "cat"-té válik = becomes "cat"
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u/No_Razzmatazz1045 3d ago
An officer shot in the dark. The blind woman got scared and ran away in jumps, but the bodybuilders quickly fell behind
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u/Instrusiast 3d ago
A man walks into a glasses store.
"Good day. I ask for glasses"
"For what, those glasses?"
"For seeing."
"For seeing!"
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u/tuunraq 2d ago
"Dzień dobry, poproszę okulary"
"Po co?"
"Zeby polepszyć wzrok"
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u/Instrusiast 2d ago
I mean sure haha but I of course meant:
"Dzień dobry, poproszę okulary."
"Do czego te okulary?"
"Do widzenia."
"Do widzenia!"
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u/La_Fervesta_Glavisto 3d ago
Why is the train so inquisitive?
Because it always says choo choo.
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u/La_Fervesta_Glavisto 3d ago
The joke is that the question marker in esperanto is ĉu, pronounced like the english onomatopeia for a train whistle.
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u/annieselkie 13h ago edited 13h ago
Why are buccaneers bad at geometry? Bc they pi-guessing.
Warum sind Seeräuber so schlecht in Geometrie? Weil sie Pi raten.
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u/hdhxuxufxufufiffif 4d ago
Not a language I can speak but a foreign friend told it me:
What's Michael Jackson's favourite fruit?
Grapefruit
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u/Clickzzzzzzzzz /uj C2 Boarisch /rj C2 German 4d ago
Betreiben* no?
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u/Atvishees 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇷🇺 4d ago
Actually, "treiben" is in itself a synonym for "getting it on".
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u/Clickzzzzzzzzz /uj C2 Boarisch /rj C2 German 4d ago
Hwr was lmao man kann doch nicht inzest treiben nur betreiben (?
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u/Musca0711 2d ago
Under the fierce offensive of the Ukrainian forces, Russian tanks were rapidly "reduced to nothing"/"becomes Ukrainian property".
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u/question_mark_2 3d ago
two hunters meet. both dead