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    This one should translate very well into Russian -- only I'm not sure about one particular word:

    Two five-year-old children are playing in the yard. The first child says:
    "Yesterday I found a condom on the veranda!"
    The second child replies:
    "What's a veranda?"


    The word "veranda" is slightly old-fashioned in US English, and probably 90% of adults -- and nearly 100% of children -- would use the word "porch" instead. A variant of this joke has the first child saying "I found a condom under the davenport" -- davenport being a regional dialect word for "sofa" or "couch."

    So, the only translation difficulty is finding a word that a five-year-old Russian child probably wouldn't know, as a replacement for "veranda" or "davenport". Obviously it doesn't have to be a literal translation -- it can be any word referring to a location where someone might have dropped a презерватив.

    P.S. I'm not sure how old the English version of the joke is -- I would guess that it goes back to the 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic made it socially acceptable to say the word "condom" on television.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
    This one should translate very well into Russian -- only I'm not sure about one particular word:

    Two five-year-old children are playing in the yard. The first child says:
    "Yesterday I found a condom on the veranda!"
    The second child replies:
    "What's a veranda?"
    Не могу вспомнить какой-нибудь аналог в русском... зато пока думал, вспомнил цитату с баша:

    покупатель: здравствуйте, у вас есть внешние FDD?
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    покупатель: знаете, что такое дискета?
    менеджер: нет
    покупатель: а можно кого-нибудь постарше?
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    Quote Originally Posted by RedFox View Post
    Не могу вспомнить какой-нибудь аналог в русском...
    Не знаю как в других регионах, но там, где я жил, в сельской местности слово "веранда" было в активном обиходе.
    Так что, по-моему, этот анекдот прекрасно переводится на русский без всяких адаптаций.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dtrq View Post
    Не знаю как в других регионах, но там, где я жил, в сельской местности слово "веранда" было в активном обиходе.
    Так что, по-моему, этот анекдот прекрасно переводится на русский без всяких адаптаций.
    Я не про веранду, а про аналог "слова, которое все знали 10 лет назад, а теперь нет"
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    The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. (Douglas Adams)
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