Learning another human language does bring this into focus.

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Post #420,035 by static 8/29/17 6:47:33 AM 8/29/17 6:47:33 AM Reply	Learning another human language does bring this into focus. Sometimes quite sharply so. I'm learning Korean and no doubt that that language has similar sorts of ambiguities, but they would be vastly different to English ones! Wade.
Post #420,036 by drook 8/29/17 7:29:46 AM 8/29/17 7:29:46 AM Reply	Seen yesterday: Puns are the inside jokes of a language -- Drew
Post #420,060 by scoenye 8/29/17 10:01:31 PM 8/29/17 10:01:31 PM Reply	Ran into one this afternoon A student related ordering "4 pairs of pants" from a Spanish speaking seamstress last week. Today she got a phone call saying her "8 pants" were ready for pickup. Oops...
Post #420,076 by Ashton 8/30/17 5:27:52 PM 8/30/17 5:27:52 PM Reply	(Must admit: have yet to see a 'pant' ... even for an amputee..)

IT joke - (lincoln) - (9) - Aug. 28, 2017, 02:16:40 PM EDT

If you went to Catholic school in the 70s, you remember diagramming sentences -NT - (drook) - (4) - Aug. 28, 2017, 02:29:25 PM EDT

Did that in public school too. -NT - (malraux) - (3) - Aug. 28, 2017, 02:43:22 PM EDT

Not any of the people I went to high school with -NT - (drook) - Aug. 28, 2017, 03:26:38 PM EDT

Interesting. Both my wife and I had diagramming. - (malraux) - Aug. 28, 2017, 03:31:32 PM EDT

Yep, saw it briefly in NYC public schools. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 29, 2017, 02:45:25 PM EDT

Learning another human language does bring this into focus. - (static) - (3) - Aug. 29, 2017, 06:47:33 AM EDT

Seen yesterday: Puns are the inside jokes of a language -NT - (drook) - Aug. 29, 2017, 07:29:46 AM EDT

Ran into one this afternoon - (scoenye) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2017, 10:01:31 PM EDT

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