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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Translation Humor
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Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 14:17:38 EST
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I'd like to know why all these foreigners (furreners) are cleverly designing
their languages so that Americans will be embarrassing themselves (i.e.,
getting themselves pregnant in Spanish) whenever they attempt to speak the
native language.  If you eat in a French restaurant and say that you're
full, POOF!  You're pregnant!  If you then go to Spain and tell them how
embarrassed you were by this experience, POOF!  You're pregnant again.  And
if you try to escape your embarrassment by taking a bus downtown, you're
arrested for attempted bestiality. (POOF!)  I recently tried to order dinner
in a Spanish restaurant (after four years of high school and college
Spanish--boy, that was a long time to wait for dinner!), and got some
bizarre sliced meat dish instead of my two enchiladas and rice.  My
companions refused to let me ask for the check in Spanish, because they
were afraid I would accidentally ask for a giant ostrich for four!  At
least I didn't try to tell the waiter how embarrassed I was...

Yo soy un mendizo.
-- 
					Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr