Here's a few jokes ... in English ... and they all have something in common ....apart from being in English that is ..
There was an old man and his daughter
Who fell head over heels in deep water,
Said the man " Her can't swim,"
( And no more couldn't him)
" I wish someone had tortoise, or taughter."
That's the first one here's the next one ...
What do cannibals play at parties ?
"Swallow my leader."
Here's the third one ..
HERE
LIES
LESTER MORE
FOUR SLUGS
FROM A
FORTY - FOUR
NO LES
NO MORE
Here's another ... I hope you like them ...
CALLING ALL DRS !
When you think of the hosts without No.,
Who are slain by the deadly cuco.,
It's quite a mistake
Of such food to partake,
It results in a permanent slo.
Here's the last, and possibly the most cymhleth one ...
PCRUMBS !
There was a young lady called Psyche,
Who was heard to ejaculate " Pcryche!
For when riding her pbych,
She ran into a ptrych,
And fell on some rails which were pspyche.
First off, I have to confess that I didn't make these jokes up ..they're all from my recently-acquired copy of .....
They all depend on the "quirks" of the English language.... they wouldn't translate into German properly at all, or into Spanish or Arabic for that matter.
There will be jokes in all those languages which work in the same way, using the same mechanisms and tricks ... but they too will be language-specific.
Now .. having read those, and a lot more like them, it would be good to have some German ones to put on here. BUT ... and there's usually a "but" .. I don't actually have any German joke books. The alternative would be to make up some of my own. I suppose I could try to find some on the net ...but how would you type in your search requirements ? Tricky !
So ...as I usually do ... I'm giving you out there something to do ... it's called " active learning" in the trade ... maybe you have some German joke books, or can make up some of your own in the same spirit as those up there .... and if you do, or you can, maybe you could put some on here as a comment. And then I could include them. Smashing.
So we'll all do our best.... I hope so anyway.
Music later ... it's Tea-Time here at LGi88Y towers.