>>>>The French Navy are running a recruitment drive, with a new motto: "To the water - it is the hour!".
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>>>>In French this is: "A l'eau - c'est l'heure!"
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>>>I think I saw this on the Beeb web site a few days ago. Took me a minute but gave me a chuckle.
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>>>Haven't read the whole thread - has anyone really latched on yet?
>>>Best,
>>>Viv
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>>I think Jim Nelson is the only one who's acknowledged the pun.
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>I'd rather not qualify that as a pun (where's the intent?), but as a mondegreen - a cross-language one, at that.
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>I think I tried to post a few of our own once, but it doesn't really work except among the speakers of the language(s). The simplest form was to misunderstand "thank you very much" as "tenk juri veliku mačku" (tank chases a big cat), that I heard as a kid (yes we had a bit of an English class in the kindergarten :).
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>Later with RnR, we got "Šutaj Stevo, šut, daj go!" (shoot, Steve, shoot, score a goal), "Mesečina, bato" (moonshine, bro), and the long "Ko je konobar / Milinko / nema ga do sad" (who is the waiter / Milinko is / he's still not here).
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>Now you have all weekend to guess the songs.

I need to work out the pronunciation 1st b4 i get it! :-)