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Douglas Hofstadter discusses the problem of translating a palindrome into Chinese, where such wordplay is theoretically impossible, in his book Le Ton beau de Marot [10] – which is devoted to the issues and problems of translation, with particular emphasis on the translation of poetry. Another example given by Hofstadter is the translation of ...
Like puns in English, dajare may be considered dad jokes (親父ギャグ, oyaji gyagu). Dajare commonly involve the usage of two homophonous phrases alongside each other in a sentence, though double entendres are used as well. Example one: アルミ缶の上にある蜜柑 (arumi kan no ue ni aru mikan) Translation: An orange on an aluminum ...
A complete listing and criticism of all English translations of at least one of the three cantiche (parts) was made by Cunningham in 1966. [12] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with additions between 1966 and the present, many of which are taken from the Dante Society of America's yearly North American bibliography [13] and Società Dantesca Italiana [] 's international ...
Treat your-shelf to the best book puns and writing jokes you'll ever read. The post 50 Book Puns That Will Have You Tickled Ink appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Triple heteronyms are extremely rare in English; three examples, sin, mobile and does, are listed below. Proper nouns can sometimes be heteronyms. For example, the final syllable in the US state of Oregon is pronounced /-ə n / (or /-ɪ n /), while in the name of the village of Oregon in Wisconsin, the final syllable is pronounced /-ɒ n /.
The theory is that the bad quarto is a memorial reconstruction of Hamlet, made by some of its actors: so where there are unintentional echoes of Othello in the bad quarto (for example "to my vnfolding / Lend thy listning eare" [40] in the bad quarto and "To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear" [41] in Othello—and a number of others) it ...
A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of a bilingual pun can be a joke that makes sense in more than one language (a joke that can be translated) or a joke which requires understanding of both languages (a joke specifically for those ...
Othello, a General in the Venetian army, promotes a young officer, Michael Cassio, enraging Iago—the General's ensign—who expected the post himself. Outwardly loyal to Othello and his recently married wife, Desdemona, Iago proceeds to cause dissension within Othello's camp (for instance, tuning Othello's new father-in-law against him, and causing Cassio to fight another officer).