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Only a Joke - Vocabulary English -Spanish
Vocabulary
For English Spanish – A simple question and a Joke
When one want that other people answer a question, but is a Joke
How do you say in English?
Adivinanza?
It is correct Comundrum?
Or only a Joke?
Here it follows one:
He was famous for starring in a movie with a chimp;
She was famous for starring in a movie with a leopard.
Answer.
He: Ronald Reagan
She: Katharine Hepburn
I hope you like my Joke and hope somebody explains me the answer.
Regards,
Mary
It is correct Comundrum?
Or only a Joke?
Here it follows one:
He was famous for starring in a movie with a chimp;
She was famous for starring in a movie with a leopard.
Answer.
He: Ronald Reagan
She: Katharine Hepburn
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Re:Only a Joke - Vocabulary English -Spanish
This is your joke translated to spanish but i didn't get it.
¿O solamente una broma?
Aquí sigue uno:
Él era famoso por starring en una película con un chimp;
Ella era famosa por starring en una película con un leopardo.
Respuesta.
Él: Ronald Reagan
Ella: Katharine Hepburn
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Re:Only a Joke - Vocabulary English -Spanish
Hi Mary,
There are a couple of things you might be talking about. A "riddle" is a puzzle who's answer is a joke. Perhaps the most famous riddle in English is
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To get to the other side.
This may seem very confusing from outside our culture, but the point of it is that the question sounds like there is supposed to be some fascinating thing going on, but the answer is really obvious.
We also have riddles which are intended to be very challenging puzzles. We think of them as Sphinx riddles, perhaps. There are a number of these kinds of riddles in The Hobbit when Bilbo Baggins is in the Cave with Gollum. A typical Sphinx riddle might be:
I build mountains and tear them down,
I blind men and help them to see
What am I?
I'll leave you to think about that one for a while. Answers to Sphinx riddles tend to be someting simple and common, like "fire" "man" "Time" That sort of thing. You want to think of some commonly known thing or concept that can do all of those things I mentioned.
The question you asked, however, about the movies, I wouldn't reallly call a riddle, because it's not funny and because it's not puzzling in the way that sphinx riddles are. I would call it a puzzle, maybe, or a trivia question. It simply challenges me to come up with the answer to a question that is not one that everybody would know immediately. I could solve that one by looking it up on the Internet (Regan was in the movie, "Bedtime for Bonzo", and Bonzo was a chimpanzee, while Hepburn was in the movie, "Bringing up Baby", and Baby was a leopard.
So that was just a trivia question. (trivia is a word meaning informaiton that is not particularly important). One more word you might like to learn, adiviar in English is "guess" so when someone asks you a riddle, you should try to guess the answer.
Thanks for the question, and have fun!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
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Re:Re:Only a Joke - Vocabulary English -Spanish
Excuse my typing errors--they keep telling me not to use the computers with my gloves on, but I never listen:
In my last message I meant to say that the English word for "adivinar" is "Guess". Maybe that didn't confuse anyone, but I thought I'd set the record straight.
Enjoy!
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Re:Only a Joke - Vocabulary English -Spanish
By the way: A "conundrum" (See how I spelled it?)
is any problem that needs a solution. So a good riddle is a conundrum, but so is the question of how I might get off of work early to meet my girlfriend without getting caught and making my boss mad at me.
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