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Bilingual pun

A bilingual pun is a pun in which a word in one language is similar to a word in another language.

Which is better, snow or milk?
Better leite than neve.

"My name is Jönsson, with two pricks over the first 'o'".
(prick is Swedish for dot)

"The plane took of with a great fart and disappeared in the horizon as a prick"
Norwegian. Fart is how you would spell 'speed'. Prick is 'dot'.

"What a mess you have made!"
Norwegian. Mess is (almost) the word for 'conference'.




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