Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: polka books


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Posted by Klaus on November 03, 2001 at 05:05:09:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: polka books posted by Rob Bass on November 03, 2001 at 02:07:12:

Let’s have no war no more!

Humour across lingual borders has to fight hard for survival. A a sample:

I miss one obvious title in the Hungry Five series: Hungry five in Hungary!

You Englishspeakers might not find that funny, but the joke (which it certainly is in my ears) does not come out of my language, where hungry=sulten and Hungary=Ungarn.

Klaus


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