"Murphy's Laws" and Polish puns

[Dennis R. Preston]

El Senhor Butters is having me on (again). He knows very well it means
"Don't screw my cat."

Sorry not to include the trasnlation. But since it was Spanish, and since
this is the US, I thought ...

dInIs



>In a message dated 6/22/99 2:02:36 PM, preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU writes:
>
><< Nojoda Migata
>
>Sounds Japanese if pronouced quickly, particularly with no word-boundary
>transition after "joda." >>
>
>I don't get it--I thought my Spanish was better than that. Isn't UNA GATA a
>car jack? And wouldn't the imperative have an /s/ on the end? And what does
>JODAR mean?

Dennis R. Preston
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