Re: Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus

On 27 Apr 2024 02:31:46 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

In article <v0hisp$4d0$3@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/26/2024 4:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
 
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

>
Many years ago I predicted that there much be a class of German
language joke predicated on ambiguity in reading that language's
agglutinated words.
>
A native speaker in the group confirmed that I was correct.
>
Consider breaking the word 'therapist' at a line end.
>
pt
>

>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joIr6c-jj4Y

I thought that YouTube clip was going to be the Saturday Night Live
Jeopardy sketch where Sean Connary takes "the rapists" for 200:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hElOag-1a0k

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/comments/1346z6z/every_time_sean_connery_misread_the_board_on/

  -- Bob