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Absurd Alhazred posted:"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap."
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Mar 14, 2018 01:59
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Disney did quite a bit of propaganda during the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_and_American_animation
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Mar 14, 2018 02:02
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Wow harsh: “Matthew Broderick has said that when he was hired as the voice of adult Simba in The Lion King, he presumed the project was related to Kimba the White Lion.[19][20][21][22] "I thought he meant Kimba, who was a white lion in a cartoon when I was a little kid," said Broderick. "So I kept telling everybody I was going to play Kimba. I didn't really know anything about it, but I didn't really care. I mean, I killed two people in Ireland so who gives a poo poo about some cartoon, you know?”
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Mar 14, 2018 02:27
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MonkeyHate posted:Wow harsh: bit of paraphrasing at the end there but still quite accurate
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Mar 14, 2018 02:50
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Tiggum posted:Why is this joke so badly translated? I assume that sentence structure worked better in ancient Sumerian but in English it's just a mess. It robs the joke of all potential humour by making you first try to figure out what it even means. Not that it would have been a great joke anyway, but in this form it's hard to tell what the hell you're even reading. The same joke structure exists in English -- it's just odd because the words they've chosen are very academic. I hypothesize that a more vernacular translation might be "No girl has ever farted on her husband's lap. NOT"
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Mar 14, 2018 02:54
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"But doctor!" says the woman, "PFFFFFBTBTBBTBTBTBBT"
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Mar 14, 2018 03:16
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Sagebrush posted:The same joke structure exists in English -- it's just odd because the words they've chosen are very academic. It's not just the specific words that were chosen - it's also the sentence structure (eg. the double negative of "never has this not happened") and the pointless wordiness (eg. "since time immemorial"). And your translation is better because it fixes those issues.
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Mar 14, 2018 03:35
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It’s phrased that way because it’s a mislead joke. Faking out about to record some big once in a lifetime event.
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Mar 14, 2018 05:03
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Tiggum posted:It's not just the specific words that were chosen - it's also the sentence structure (eg. the double negative of "never has this not happened") and the pointless wordiness (eg. "since time immemorial"). And your translation is better because it fixes those issues. The weird structure is probably a literal translation of the way that it was written in ancient Sumerian. Not all languages have the same syntactic flexibility that English does, so that might be the only way that the Sumerians could phrase the joke, but that doesn't mean it sounded weird to them. If you literally translated the French phrase for "what's up?" you would get "what is this which happens now?" but it doesn't confuse native speakers. "Since time immemorial" is clearly an example of deliberate hyperbole that adds to the humor. Compare: "It's inevitable that a young woman will eventually fart on her husband's lap." "It is an ancient truth of the eons, known to great sages since the earliest days of the human race, that eventually, a young woman will inevitably fart on her husband's lap."
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Mar 14, 2018 05:15
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Guys, it's funny because a girl farted on a guy. Farts are funny.
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Mar 14, 2018 05:19
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Cling-Wrap Condom posted:cya later you robotic bitch
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Mar 14, 2018 05:20
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Sagebrush posted:The weird structure is probably a literal translation of the way that it was written in ancient Sumerian. Not all languages have the same syntactic flexibility that English does, so that might be the only way that the Sumerians could phrase the joke, but that doesn't mean it sounded weird to them. If you literally translated the French phrase for "what's up?" you would get "what is this which happens now?" but it doesn't confuse native speakers. This feels like it should go with a galaxy brain meme
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Mar 14, 2018 05:21
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FactsAreUseless posted:"Butt doctor!" says the woman, "PFFFFFBTBTBBTBTBTBBT" FTFY
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Mar 14, 2018 08:10
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Lobok posted:Everyone says they don't like puns/prison rape but once the puns/prison rape starts up everyone can't help but join the fun. Stop trying to justify yourself. You didn't get a choice whether or not to join in the prison rape.
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Mar 14, 2018 09:22
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trapped mouse posted:bit of paraphrasing at the end there but still quite accurate I had to look that up: quote:On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented BMW in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo driven by Anna Gallagher, 30, accompanied by her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, killing both instantly. He was vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he began dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day Off; the crash publicly revealed their relationship. He had a fractured leg and ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung. She received minor injuries, including whiplash. How much coke was that advertising exec on when they thought he'd be good choice?
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Mar 14, 2018 09:51
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spog posted:I had to look that up: They probably figured most people wouldn’t know about it, it doesn’t come up often anymore
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Mar 14, 2018 09:55
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Tiggum posted:It's not just the specific words that were chosen - it's also the sentence structure (eg. the double negative of "never has this not happened") and the pointless wordiness (eg. "since time immemorial"). And your translation is better because it fixes those issues. the joke works fine for people with working human brains.
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Mar 14, 2018 10:03
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At least it wasn't an ad for BMW, I guess?
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Mar 14, 2018 10:59
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:At least it wasn't an ad for BMW, I guess? An ad for Tesla. “If I’d been driving a car with the new Autopilot features, those people would still be alive today.”
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Mar 14, 2018 11:01
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Instead, our product would guide the guilty STRAIGHT INTO A loving SEMI BOOYAAAAAA
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Mar 14, 2018 11:07
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FactsAreUseless posted:"But doctor!" says the woman, "I am Paglifartti!"
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Mar 14, 2018 11:10
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Good joke. Roll on snare. Everybody fart.
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Mar 14, 2018 12:15
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Shugojin posted:Roll on snare. Rimshot, please
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Mar 14, 2018 12:20
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Goons gently caress up perfectly good joke because words with more than two syllables confuse and anger them; fish swim, birds fly
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Mar 14, 2018 12:35
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Imagine being such a pedant as to attempt to correct the wording of the oldest recorded joke in human history.
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Mar 14, 2018 12:55
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Coq au Nandos posted:Imagine being such a pedant as to attempt to correct the wording of the oldest recorded joke in human history.
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Mar 14, 2018 12:59
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Here, let me update the joke for modern sensibilities. *in an extremely stand-up comedian voice* You know what's unlikely? A stripper holding a fart while giving you a lap dance. Not that I mind! *is revealed to be a sexual harasser one week later*
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Mar 14, 2018 13:03
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Fish fly, birds swim, goons run a joke into the ground.
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Mar 14, 2018 13:10
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*farts*
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Mar 14, 2018 13:45
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Paladinus posted:Here, let me update the joke for modern sensibilities. Best one yet imo
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Mar 14, 2018 14:02
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Wife Warms Husband By Farting On His Lap: Heating Companies Hate Her!
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Mar 14, 2018 14:07
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Rimjob, please FTFY
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Mar 14, 2018 14:50
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*tooooot*
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Mar 14, 2018 14:57
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Guy Goodbody posted:You need a link to support the idea that a brand new transit system involving a massive underground tunnel system built to create and sustain vacuum while also opening dozens of times per day via hundreds of car elevators to transport this new kind of see through plastic pleasure bus is going to be more expensive than the regular buses that he have now? Really? You really need to see documentation to support the claim that a massive infrastructure project based around the implementation of vacuum tube technology at a scale never before seen, and also the installation of hundreds of giant street level elevators in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world, is going to cost more than buses? Buses, the things that even the poorest countries in the world have? Which are basically just big trucks and operate on existing roads? Context is someone asking for a link to prove that Elon ol musky musks hyperlink bus project would cost far more in fares and building it than the typical bus in any given city. Also related: Neddy Seagoon posted:It's not a question of "ooh, how will this fancy space-machine work and cost", it's a matter of pure and simply logistics for a construction project, which you can reasonably ballpark a guess based on what it would cost to dig a network of multiple tunnels between two major cities, let alone pressurize them. DandyLion posted:I'd think it'd be as simple as asking how much has your mother been charging recently.
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Mar 14, 2018 19:40
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You missed the guy's response, which was the best part.Barry Bluejeans posted:Okay. I was hoping to have a respectful exchange here, but you're clearly not interested in that. Bye.
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Mar 14, 2018 19:48
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Sagebrush posted:The weird structure is probably a literal translation of the way that it was written in ancient Sumerian.
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Mar 14, 2018 23:35
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Tiggum posted:Yeah, I got that. That's why it's a bad translation. That is exactly the point I was making. It's not a bad translation. It's a transliteration, which is as direct a translation as possible in order to preserve the structure and word-by-word meaning of the original. You can have fights for decades about what constitutes a "good translation" (otherwise we'd have a single canonical translation of every classical text and nobody would bother with new ones), but a transliteration isn't automatically a bad one - it's just a deliberately literal one. In case it isn't clear, this is me telling you that you don't know as much about this subject as you think you do, and it might be time for you to stop talking about it.
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Mar 14, 2018 23:43
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Baron von Eevl posted:You missed the guy's response, which was the best part. Lmbo nobody tell that guy about Trig
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Mar 14, 2018 23:43
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Besesoth posted:In case it isn't clear, this is me telling you that you don't know as much about this subject as you think you do, and it might be time for you to stop talking about it. You're talking to Tiggum.
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Mar 15, 2018 00:57
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Somfin posted:You're talking to Tiggum. Ah, so the thread has moved from correcting the oldest joke in recorded history to correcting the biggest joke in recorded history.
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