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Old Dickens: not so odd

2015-11-14T03:46:02Z

not so odd

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	ye gods, I could bang on about this sort of thing for, oh, 160,000 words...		ye gods, I could bang on about this sort of thing for, oh, 160,000 words...
			:Remember that Quirm has long been a client state of Ankh-Morpork and the huge market widdershins beckons...It's like Québec, which may as well produce Mordecai Richler or (gods help us) William Shatner. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 03:46, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

AgProv: one of those minor one letter correctinos that make all the difference....

2015-11-14T01:54:12Z

one of those minor one letter correctinos that make all the difference....

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	A:- When it's ajar! (a jar).		A:- When it's ajar! (a jar).

	Pune was a Quirmian, and unless he was dealing all his life with Morporkian-speakers, would have used Quirmian as his first language. As Roundworld comic writer Miles Kingston[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Kington] pointed out, puns don't translate well. Kingston - who chronicled the rise of the mangled part English, part-French "Franglais" language for ~~humurous~~ magazine Punch before its demise in the 1980's - rendered the joke into "Quirmian" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais] as follows:		Pune was a Quirmian, and unless he was dealing all his life with Morporkian-speakers, would have used Quirmian as his first language. As Roundworld comic writer Miles Kingston[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Kington] pointed out, puns don't translate well. Kingston - who chronicled the rise of the mangled part English, part-French "Franglais" language for humorous magazine Punch before its demise in the 1980's - rendered the joke into "Quirmian" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais] as follows:

	Q:- Quand est une porte pas une porte?		Q:- Quand est une porte pas une porte?

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AgProv at 22:21, 2 June 2011

2011-06-02T22:21:41Z

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There is a logical inconsistency here.

Regard the pun

Q:- When is a door not a door?

A:- When it's ajar! (a jar).

Pune was a Quirmian, and unless he was dealing all his life with Morporkian-speakers, would have used Quirmian as his first language. As Roundworld comic writer Miles Kingston[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Kington] pointed out, puns don't translate well. Kingston - who chronicled the rise of the mangled part English, part-French "Franglais" language for humurous magazine Punch before its demise in the 1980's - rendered the joke into "Quirmian" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais] as follows:

Q:- Quand est une porte pas une porte?

R:- Quand elle est entre-baillée! (entre-baillée)

or:

R:- Quand elle est une marmite! (une marmite).

There's none of the "ajar / a jar" confusion here: "entre-baillée", meaning more or less "half-open", has no correspondence to "une marmite" (container for food, or small cooking pot).

ye gods, I could bang on about this sort of thing for, oh, 160,000 words...