• fxomt@lemm.ee
    7·
    1 day ago

    I think what makes it funnier is how unrelated those two terms are. It’s a quirk of the Arabic language and there’s a whole class of these types of puns.

    My favorite one is “bullying” and “the tigerization”

    • lennivelkant
      5·
      1 day ago

      I think you might appreciate the German word “Scheinwerfer”:

      (The joke is that the word “Schein” can mean both the “shine” of a lamp or paper bills, and “Werfer” means thrower or caster. So a “shine-caster” aka light or a “bill-thrower” depending on how you interpret it.)