And I thought it was like this only in Portuguese... My father used to tease me all the time with these "jokes"...
2012/1/29 Akira Shirakawa <[email protected]> > On 2012-01-30 00:54, Alan Fletcher wrote: > >> Can somebody please contact S.A and let him know that M.Y has hacked his >> email account =8-) >> > > I'm not joking :) > > In spoken Italian, a humorous (if irritating) way to deny a "Can you...?" > request is by answering "yes". In other languages it might be a perfectly > valid and logic answer, however. > > A: "Può dirmi che ore sono?" ("What time is it?" Lit.: "Could you tell me > what time is it?") > B: "Sì" ("Yes") > A: "..." > > Cheers, > S.A. > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
