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Cake day: 2023年6月16日

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  • Thank you kind Sir. But acshially… “The word in English was originally spelled gantelope or gantlope,[7] but soon its pronunciation was influenced by the unrelated word gauntlet, meaning an armored glove, derived from the French: gantelet.[1] The spelling changed with the pronunciation.” I.e. not “the same” word, per se. The fact that they are two completely different words, accidentally spelled the same, is the solution to this riddle. And I bet my Austrian pair of buttocks that a majority of native English speakers is unaware of that fact, believing instead that the type of gauntlet in this meme actually has something to do with armored gloves.







  • Okay, I get it now, and it is, in fact, a) a bad joke because it only sort of works if you pronounce “sauna” wrong (or if you think sauna is pronounced exactly like sana) and b) badly delivered because the punch line is separate from the joke, making it seem like an added comment, without which the joke would also work (but it doesn’t). The translation what corpore sano means is completely superfluous, it doesn’t contribute to the joke and thus only misleads the audience about what could be the funny part. Explaining is not what made it bad, it was bad from the start