[Lexicog] Turkey

[David Tuggy]

One of the differences in cultural humour is the latitude of 
pronunciation ("phonological slop") allowed for punning. In punsters' 
circles in the English-speaking cultures it may be considerable. 
Consider the following knock-knock joke (one of my candidates for worst 
pun ever):

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Eskimo Christian Italian
Eskimo Christian Italian who?
Eskimo Christian Italia no lies.

--David Tuggy

(= Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies)

Jan F. Ullrich wrote:

>>I think you're overstating the difference in sound here.
>>The 'ů' is just a long 'u' 
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>Well, wovel length is pretty significant phonemic value in Czech.
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>>and the 'ý' and 'í' are practically identical, which is why you 
>>yourselves can have problems knowing which is which.
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>There have been debates among the linguists whether 'y' and 'i' are
>pronounced identically or not and I am not sure what the latest approach
>is (Bohemict linguistics is not my particularly field). But they
>certainly are pronounced identically by some people while in many of the
>Czech dialects people actually do pronounce them differently and hear
>the difference. 
>But more importantly, 't' is palatized before 'i', while before 'y' it
>remains unchanged. So the two words ('krutý' and 'krůtí') are very
>different.
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>Jan F. Ullrich
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