Today’s Friday and as usual my e-mail box at work is filling up with the jokes that fly around like the wicked witch’s monkeys.
One of them I just had to share with y’all - not because of the joke (not terribly funny, really) but because of one guy’s response. It was merely
一笑了之 我 驴子
Which is weird, but the responder is not Chinese.
So I whip out my trusty Google decoder ring and discover the above loosely translates to
“As soon as smiled my donkey.”
Huh? sez I. It took a full minute or so for the light to go on, “Ohhhh! Laughing my ass off!”
Inspired by that, I translated the phrase “Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off” into the following languages, then translated them back to english. So here is some Google-language-round-trip fun:
German
Auf dem Fußboden rollen, meinen Esel weg lachend.
On the floor, mean donkeys roll away laughing.
Spanish
Rodando en el piso, riendo mi asno apagado.
Rolling in the floor, laughing my dull ass.
French
Roulant sur le plancher, riant mon âne au loin.
Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass with far.
Italian
Rotolando sul pavimento, ridente il mio asino fuori.
Rolling on the pavement, laughing my ass outside.
Portuguese
Rolando no assoalho, rindo meu burro fora.
Rolling in the wooden floor, laughing my donkey it are.
Japanese
私のろばを笑わせる床で転がる
Me it is slow, it rolls in the floor which can be amused.
Korean
나의 당나귀를 떨어져 실소하는 지면에 구른
My donkey it fell and laughs in the ground which it rolled
Chinese
滚动在这个地板, 笑我的驴子
Rolls in this floor, laughs at me the donkey