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24 Nov 2008

LINGUISTIC HUMOUR

Beatrice Santorini’s Linguistic Humor page contains a collection of jokes, anagrams, puns and other manifestations of word play.

This is an example of humour based on syntactic ambiguity (from the section 'Funny signs found on real businesses')


Cafeteria: SHOES ARE REQUIRED TO EAT IN THE CAFETERIA. SOCKS CAN EAT ANY PLACE THEY WANT.
Photo: www.flickr.com/photos/39792195@N00/2177072453

Posted by Maite P. at 14:40
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  1. Anonymous24 November 2008 at 17:50

    Great site! Not stupendous design, but really funny!
    Juan F.

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