Jose Carillo's English Forum - Language Humor at Its Finest

LANGUAGE HUMOR AT ITS FINEST

Making yourself more proficient in English need not be a drag. You can actually speed up the learning process and make it fun by generously lacing it with humor—but preferably the best that the English language can offer.

In this new section, apart from giving a fixed slot to our weekly “In a Lighter Vein” pop-out humor piece in the Forum homepage, we have put together the finest of those weekly humor pop-ups since the Forum started. The best of them—collected from various sources on the web and sent in by friends—are all here, posted in the Forum under the following headings: Wordplay, On the Job, Student and School Life, and Miscellany.

So if you missed any of the best of the Forum’s weekly humor pop-ups, you can enjoy and savor them again and again here—and better still, share them with your friends!

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Carte blanched*

Winners of a contest run by New York Magazine that asked readers to take a well-known expression in a foreign language, change just one letter, and provide a definition for the new expression.

Rigor morris
The cat is dead.

Respondez s’il vous plaid
Honk if you’re Scottish.

Harlez-vous Francais?
Can you drive a french motorcycle?

Veni, Vipi, Vici
I came, I’m a very important person, I conquered.

Veni, Vidi, Visa
I came, I saw, I shopped.

Cogito eggo sum
I think, therefore I am...a waffle.

Que sera serf
Life is feudal.

Leroi est mort. Jive leroi
The king is dead. No kidding.

Posh mortem
Death styles of the rich and famous

Pro bozo publico
Support your local clown.

Monage a trois
I am three years old.

Haste cuisine
Fast French food