Few things are more incomprehensible than puns
in a language not one's own...

Jack

On 3/17/08, sergio masci <smplx@allotrope.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Vitaliy wrote:
>
> > John Gardner wrote:
> > > On 3/16/08, Jinx <joecolquitt@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> > >> > incomprehensible appreciations of each other's argot
> > >>
> > >> Now there's a word you don't hear every day
> > >>
> > >> Argot - n, Fr. Etymology unknown. Low, popular slang, esp
> > >> of Paris, specif thieves' slang
> > >>
> > >> Argot - n, the vocabulary peculiar to a particular group of
> > >> people, esp that of an underworld group
> > >>
> > >> Hey ! I resemble that remark !
> > >>
> > >> Popular, peculiar, particular
> > >>
> > >> Not so much a tea leaf, Parisite or Morlock though
> > >
> > > ROTFL - thanks Joe
> >
> > I know it's not as funny when someone has to explain it to you... but I
> > really want to know why John is rolling on the floor, laughing. :)
>
> resemble - should be "resent" - the misuse showing that that person thinks
> they are "superior" and getting it wrong.
>
> tea leaf - slang for thief
> parasite - misunderstanding of what Etymology means
> Morlock - underground dweler from H.G. Wells' "time machine" - "superior"
> thing again but this time with underground / underworld
>
> Regards
> Sergio Masci
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