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Topic: French Shop Joke
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alex
translatortips staff Posts: 462
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 14 June 2001 10:53
  
Contributed by email by Robert McMurray  quote:
I couldn't see where to click on to register this one, so I'll use your email address. Hope that's OK.
I found this one (an exam howler) back in the sixties when I'd just started secondary school/learning French, and even then it wasn't exactly new, so if anyone's heard it, I apologise in advance.
Anyway, a pupil had to translate the sentence "He went into the shop". The exam answer that got dished up was, "Il est entré dans la vendeuse." 
(For those who don't speak French this means, "He entered the sales lady.")
PS Do interpreters still do it orally?
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