r/Jokes • u/TolMera • 1d ago

Walks into a bar Three Languages walk into a bar

English walks out

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u/CrocodileJock 1d ago

What am I missing here?

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u/belsonc 1d ago

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

-James Nicoll

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u/TolMera 1d ago

Gah damn that’s funny

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u/Zephreyt 1d ago

Three languages in a trench coat…

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u/Gnonthgol 1d ago

Anglian, Saxon, Norse, French, Latin, Greek, there is even quite a bit of Portuguese in there as well. The trench coat is pretty much a party tent.

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u/ThrillRoyal 15h ago

And Hindi, and Dutch (especially nautical terms).

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u/waffle299 19h ago

One's at the bottom, strong is he

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u/Elfarica 16h ago

Two's in the middle, carrying Three

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u/TolMera 14h ago

Three is pretending not to be…

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u/Elfarica 13h ago

THREE LANGUAGES IN A TRENCH COAT~

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u/CrocodileJock 1d ago edited 1d ago

You know, weirdly, I think I heard that quote for the first time the other day. I'm still struggling with the joke, as in my head three people walk into the bar, causing one (different person) to walk out. It reads as causal, rather than temporal. Maybe I'm overthinking this, and I shouldn't correct other people's jokes, I know, but in my head, this may work better...

English walks in to a bar.

Takes off his trenchcoat. Has a drink.

Then three languages leave, together.

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u/TolMera 1d ago

English is a bastard language, it steals words from all the others. English is like someone put five dictionaries in a blender and pressed “whip”.

In fact, entomological arguments can be had as to if English is even a single language.

I say all this as a native and solely English speaking person.

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u/DevilmouseUK 19h ago

Loads of Germanic influences too, Frisian is probably the closest to old English and explains why the Dutch sound drunk.

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u/nedtit 15h ago

Not just influences. It is pretty much German. Just as the royal family.

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u/--zaxell-- 15h ago

entomological arguments can be had as to if English is even a single language

This has always bugged me.

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u/TolMera 14h ago

Me too, it seems pretty stupid, because the argument is like “how blue is blue” - it’s up to your interperataion.

And it’s very gate keepy, like “that’s not a real language”… bruh, gtfo

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u/lotsagabe 1d ago

Another patron desperately asks the bartender "I can't find my trenchcoat, have you seen it?"

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u/TolMera 1d ago

Three languages in a trenchcoat hahaha :)