А couple of linguistic tricks

**Zeus** · July 7th, 2003, 08:50 AM

Here are two funny pics (scans of the real label and newspaper). I wonder if anyone non-Russian speaker can guess where the fun is

It concerns 1) double meaning of one word, and 2) grammatically wrong sentence structure, although it looks OK.

1. Rice

2. Militia (~police)

**Ger** · July 7th, 2003, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by Zeus

Here are two funny pics (scans of the real label and newspaper). I wonder if anyone non-Russian speaker can guess where the fun is

It concerns 1) double meaning of one word, and 2) grammatically wrong sentence structure, although it looks OK.

1. Rice

2. Militia (~police)

Ха-ха-ха.

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