Thread: Шутки что я могу рассказывать?

рассказывать анекдоты

That's a bit odd, considering it's not an anectdote, but a joke! An anectdote in English as I'm sure you know, is short story with some sort of moral lesson to gain from it...not something intended for laughter.

Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман

Короткий анекдот:

- Вы чай будете пить? - Would you like some tea? (lit.: Will you drink tea?)
- Почему бы и нет! - Why not!
- Ну нет - так нет. - OK, if not, then not!

Personally, I like jokes (Russian: anecdotes) with a mixture of Russian and English. They are not for everybody, though. They are for Russians who knows some English (at least a little bit).

Иностранец подходит к кассе "Аэрофлота":
- Two tickets to Dublin.
- Куда, блин?

A foreigner comes to Aeroflot ticket-office. (Aeroflot - the biggest Russian airline company).

- Two tickets to Dublin. It sounds as "two tickets туда, блин"
("туда" - to there, "блин" - it literally means "pancake", but there is nothing to do with its direct meaning, it has no English equivalent in this context, it's just a filler word, an euphemism of a common swear word in Russian, being not a swear word itself, but sounding quite alike). So, to a Russian ear it sounds roughly as "two ticket to there, holy sh..t", but less rude.

- Куда, блин? (To where, holy sh..t?)

Heh, any better jokes?

Originally Posted by diogen_

Trachtenberg's anecdotes are currently easily available on YouTube. Given this miraculously blissful fact, you can magnificently augment and astoundingly amplify your yearning for "funstuff" with a broad variety of issues regarding cultural paradigms of intergender intercourse, as well as sufficiently imbue and tangibly satiate your intransigently aspiring mind with the correspondent structure of related applied linguistics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw-2lKSEVPU

Думаю что это немножко слишком трудно для меня.

Originally Posted by Valda

That's a bit odd, considering it's not an anectdote, but a joke! An anectdote in English as I'm sure you know, is short story with some sort of moral lesson to gain from it...not something intended for laughter.

Yes, Valda, Russian "анекдот" is not the same as English "anecdote", it is a source of a possible confusion. It is an example of so-called "false friends of interpreter".

He's an article from Russian wikipedia about "анекдот": Анекдот — Википедия
The definition is:
Анекдо́т (фр. anecdote — байка, небылица; от греч. τὸ ἀνέκδοτоν — неопубликовано, букв. «не изданное»[1]) — фольклорный жанр, короткая смешная история, обычно передаваемая из уст в уста. Чаще всего анекдоту свойственно неожиданное смысловое разрешение в самом конце, которое и рождает смех.

Анекдот (from French "anecdote" - fable, cock-and-bull story; or from Greek τὸ ἀνέκδοτоν — unpublished) - is a folklore genre, a short funny story, usually transmitted from mouth to mouth. It is typical for an anecdote to have an unexpected logical outcome at the very end, which causes laughter.

From Russian-English dictionary:
анекдот
м.
anecdote; funny story; (шутка тж.) joke
♢ это просто анекдот! — it is simply ridiculous!

From English-Russian dictionary:
anecdote
['ænıkdəʋt] n
1. 1) (короткий) рассказ, история; эпизод
witty [amusing, interesting] anecdote - остроумный [забавный, интересный] рассказ
2) анекдот
2. часто pl неопубликованные, неизвестные (обыкн. пикантные) биографические подробности