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  Re: Unicode humor MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-05-15 18:21 +0100
    Re: Unicode humor "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-15 15:37 -0400
      Re: Unicode humor Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-15 18:29 -0400

#45358 — Re: Unicode humor

On 15/05/2013 18:04, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 15/05/2013 14:19, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>>>>>>>> This reflects a lack of understanding of Unicode.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> jmf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And this reflects a lack of a sense of humor.  :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Isn't that a crime in the UK?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ChrisA
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem with English humour (as against standard humor)
>>>>> is that its not unicode compliant
>>>>>
>>>> British humour includes "double entendre", which is not
>>>> French-compliant.
>>>
>>> I didn't get that one. Which possibly confirm MRAB's statement.
>>>
>> It's called "double entendre" in English (using French words, from
>> "à double entente"), but that isn't correct French ("double
>> sens").
>
> Thanks for clarifying, I didn't know "double entendre" had actually a
> meaning in english, it's obviously 2 french words but this is the
> first time I see them used together.
>
Occasionally speakers of one language will borrow a word or phrase from
another language and use it in a way a native speaker wouldn't (or even
understand).

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#45367

On 15/05/2013 1:21 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 15/05/2013 18:04, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> On 15/05/2013 14:19, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>>>>>>>>> This reflects a lack of understanding of Unicode.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> jmf
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And this reflects a lack of a sense of humor.  :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Isn't that a crime in the UK?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ChrisA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem with English humour (as against standard humor)
>>>>>> is that its not unicode compliant
>>>>>>
>>>>> British humour includes "double entendre", which is not
>>>>> French-compliant.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't get that one. Which possibly confirm MRAB's statement.
>>>>
>>> It's called "double entendre" in English (using French words, from
>>> "à double entente"), but that isn't correct French ("double
>>> sens").
>>
>> Thanks for clarifying, I didn't know "double entendre" had actually a
>> meaning in english, it's obviously 2 french words but this is the
>> first time I see them used together.
>>
> Occasionally speakers of one language will borrow a word or phrase from
> another language and use it in a way a native speaker wouldn't (or even
> understand).

double-entendre - Chambers Fails, but see Wiktionary: 
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/double_entendre

Colin W.

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#45375

On Wed, 15 May 2013 15:37:21 -0400, "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> double-entendre - Chambers Fails, but see Wiktionary: 

	Or any episode of "Are You Being Served" <G>

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