# Dual-language jokes/funny stories

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-language-jokes-funny-stories/441721>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 17, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-language-jokes-funny-stories/441721 "2008-03-17T23:28:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-language-jokes-funny-stories/441721/41 "2008-03-19T14:59:55Z")

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My first Korean pun:

(for this to be a completely hilarious as it actually is, you have to know that in Korean, “water” = “mool”, and the phrase “I don’t know” = “mo-lie-o”; also that soju looks like water, too)

So we were all out drinking in Seoul and late in the evening, when we were all pretty well plastered, my wife (then girlfriend) points to a glass of unidentified liquid and asked if it was water or soju.

I looked at her and with a straight face said, “Mool-lie-o!”

Thank you! I’ll be here all week!

( **HazelNutCoffee** or **Monty** would understand… perhaps they’ll be here later to tell us how hard they laughed!)

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**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-language-jokes-funny-stories/441721/42 "2008-03-19T19:21:19Z")

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[QUOTE=Sublight]  
Un peu de thé  
d’un peu de thé  
ça tonné ouaille.  
Un peu de thé  
d’un peu de thé  
A dégrée te falle.  
[/QUOTE]  
I learned the first 3 lines as “Un petit d’un petit s’étonne aux Halles”…

> [@Chez Guevara](#):
>
> the French Navy had adopted a new, uplifting slogan, to spur its seamen on to valour and glory in France’s hour of need. “To the water! The hour has come!”.
> 
> Or, in French: “A l’eau. C’est l’heure!”

Yes, that would probably spur some seamen.

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**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-language-jokes-funny-stories/441721/43 "2008-03-19T20:06:44Z")

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[QUOTE=jovan]  
Similar jokes that are based on words sounding like some other language:

Spanish -\> Japanese:  
How do you say “go for a ride” in Japanese?  
_Sakasumoto_.

(_Saka su moto_ means “takes out his bike” in Spanish and sounds Japanese.)  
[/QUOTE]

Or the similar French -\> Japanese joke…

What Japanese motorcycle manufacturer went under because their bikes were too easy to steal?  
_Yamamoto_

(sounds like “il a ma moto”, which roughly translates to “he took my bike”)

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