ckw4y on April 5, 2010
Sometimes I wonder if there are any word-play jokes that actually translate from one language to another. For example, George Carlin has a famous airplane joke:

"At the airport, when somebody says to me 'let's get on the plane,' I reply '**** you, I'm getting IN the plane.'"

My best attempt at translating it to Chinese would be:

在机场的时候,如果一个人对我说'我们进去飞机上面'我回答'他妈的,我进去飞机里面.'

I'm not even sure if the Chinese version makes sense, because I don't know if Chinese has the peculiar idiosyncrasy of getting ON things where it would make much more sense to get IN them.
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