Mies ampui vaimonsa kännykän haulikolla

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:34 pm

Another example why , is important

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kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:42 pm

onkko

What about "Navetasta kuului kovaa ammuntaa" ?

Tulitaistelu navetassa ?

AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:38 pm

Time flies like an arrow.

Rob A. · Post by **Rob A.** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:24 am

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:33 am

Well, the man shoots his wife - while standing on the mobile phone shotgun... And the mans shoots, while standing on his wifes mobile phone shotgun...

You can exchange any of the objects. We know the man shoots, but with what and at what?

The man shot his wife
The mans shot with a shotgun
The man shot a mobile phone

So then the puns revolve on the man shooting his wife with a shotgun in the mobile... in her mobile... shooting her mobile while standing on a shotgun...

AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:02 am

From the Lake Erie region of Pennsylvania:

Throw your father down the stairs his hat.

Jukka Aho · Post by **Jukka Aho** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:23 am

Rob A. wrote:....essentially the different interpretations are a play on the genitive and accusative suffixes....the only two scenarios I couldn't quite figure out were d) and g)...what is the significance of vaimo being off in the distance???... :?

In scenario d), the wife is being used as a projectile... so he shoots the wife out of the barrel of his “mobile phone shotgun” (which is a novel kind of integrated accessory for mobile phones, I presume.)

Scenario g) is the same but he is literally standing on the “mobile phone shotgun” (kännykän haulikolla) while shooting his wife out of the barrel of another, unspecified firearm... depicted here as a handgun of some sort.

AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:09 pm

Jukka Aho wrote:“mobile phone shotgun” (which is a novel kind of integrated accessory for mobile phones, I presume.)

Created to boost sales in the American market, no doubt. Mostly south of the Mason-Dixon line and west of the Mississippi.

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:28 pm

Hold on a sec Bubba, I'll dial me a wild turkey... dang thats a possum...

Rob A. · Post by **Rob A.** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:14 pm

opinto · Post by **opinto** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:50 pm

mitä ampui eksäVaimonsa

donald · Post by **donald** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:55 pm

ROTFL!!!

Jukka Aho · Post by **Jukka Aho** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:56 am

AldenG wrote:Time flies like an arrow.

Just to add to this a bit.

Natural language processing – Concrete problems (Wikipedia)
Garden path sentence (Wikipedia)

Much of our understanding of language (and, by extension, dealings with each other) is based on the (occasionally false) assumption of a) knowing the context at hand and b) sharing a common frame of reference, which may be highly culture-dependent at times... or at least require preconceived knowledge about what is usually done or said in a given situation, or meant with a logically obscure turn of phrase.

Rob A. · Post by **Rob A.** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:11 am

Jukka Aho · Post by **Jukka Aho** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:59 pm

For some reason, I can’t view the inline image in the original thread-starter post any longer. (A hotlinking restriction?) However, a normal link to it would still appear to work.

Continuing on the same theme:

Jos ”krokotiili hyökkäsi kahden tyttärensä kanssa uimassa olleen miehen kimppuun”, onko a) krokotiililla 2 tytärtä b) miehellä 2 tytärtä, c) miehellä 1 tytär, jonka kanssa olivat kahdestaan uimassa, d) kahdella miehellä 1 yhteinen tytär?

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