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From: glassner@cwruecmp.UUCP (Andrew Glassner)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Humorous Translation Setup
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Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 19:16:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 19:16:40 1983
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Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio
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All this stuff on humorous translations reminds me of a story
told to me in high school.  This actually happened!  The school
choir was on a trip to Europe, and at one point one of the
barbershop quartets sang an impromptu concert in Germany.  They
were rewarded with a number of coins, with which one decided to
buy some food from a local vendor.

This hungry guy (a tenor) asked one of the other guys (the
baritone) how to ask for food, since the baritone spoke German
rather well.  Upon being supplied with the translation he
proceeded to ask (he thought) for a small lunch.  When he was
done the shopkeeper stared at him aghast, and our poor protagonist
fled, horrified.  

He told the baritone what had happened, and the guy just laughed.
The tenor realized he had been taken, and demanded to know what
he had said.  Apparently he had walked up to this innocent shopkeeper
and said, "I sell my mother for beer money.  Have you any?"

	-Ah, the beauty of language!

	Andrew			decvax!cwruecmp!glassner


 - Andrew               uucp:    decvax!cwruecmp!glassner
  (just a glint in a    csnet:   glassner.case@rand-relay
   phosphor's eye...)