Wednesday - Random Funnies

One of my all time favorite MG books is Roald Dahl’s, THE BFG. I didn’t read it as a child, but discovered it when my son's third grade teacher read it to his class. My son would come home and tell me, between laughs, about this giant that whizzpops and eats children and talks funny and...and...None if it made much sense to me so I went and read it for myself so we could talk about it. Wow am I glad I did.

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THE BFG is seriously one of the few books that had me LOL.

If you haven’t read it, go read it asap. If you have then you know Dahl’s giants have their own unique phrasing and dialogue. Through dialogue and action Dahl transforms one giant, The BFG, from fearsome to extremely likable. And Sophie is such a smart and brave little character. A fun, adventurous, and heart warming story. Here are some lines from the book that make me smile.


"A whizzpopper!" [fart] cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?" –Roald Dahl

“Two rights don’t equal a left.” –Roald Dahl

“Do you like vegetables?” Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food.
“You is trying to change the subject,” the Giant said sternly. “We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.” –Roald Dahl


“What I mean and what I say is two different things, the BFG announced rather grandly.” –Roald Dahl


“Words,” he said, “is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.” –Roald Dahl


Do your characters ever use made up words? Have you ever made up your own language?

Wednesday's Random Funnies

If you're like me by the time you make it to Wednesday you need a smile to get you up that hill and over to Thursday, which is just before Friday, and heck that's practically the weekend.


Every Wednesday my gift to you will be a smile (and maybe even a chuckle if I'm lucky). Here goes.


Okay, so last Thursday I'm searching for something funny to post and found these quotes on the Innocent English site. Maybe I was just slap-happy after watching MOBBED. Did anyone see that show last week? Hilarious!! Anyway, I'm cracking up, like hysterically laughing tears and all. My husband was upstairs sleeping (did I mention it was two in the morning?) and comes down all squinty eyed, takes one look at me by myself with my computer, shakes his head and goes back to bed. Here's some of what had me laughing.

Since there have been lots of posts lately on songs writers listen to while they write I thought these English song lyric mistakes would be timely. Do you think you could write to this song? 

Below is from Innocent English:

Funny English Mistakes From around the World, By InnocentEnglish.com

AS FEATURED ON: Readers Digest Best of the Web, Canadian Learning TV, Book Television, NBC4.TV Los Angeles, WNBC.Com New York, Chicago Sun-Times, About.com-Humor site of the day, Go Daddy Radio, CBC Radio, radio stations throughout the U.S., and others.

Funny mistakes are from new English students. If you have ever tried to learn a new language, you know how hard it can be! We will all make many, many mistakes, and some will sound a little funny to native speakers. That's OK- It's part of learning. And a good sense of humor can help us have a good attitude and enjoy ourselves while we learn. So, enjoy these actual funny mistakes from students I have taught.

A Funny Love Song - Compiled from lyrics of love songs translated - into English by ESL students:

 

From morning’s glaring sun to the smelly afternoon,

You are always inside my lonely brain.

I hope we meet in an accident very soon.
My heart will not stop hemorrhaging for you.

The night you squeezed me I visited heaven.

Your love flies me swiftly into a mountain.

You make my heart sour.

One day, you will startle yourself and say “oh no!

Why did I walk the opposite direction of him?

Like the fishes need the ocean beach, I need you.

When you kiss me, you make my blood evaporate.

Your lovely, unwrinkly skin requests my attention

You will always be my lemon moon ray lover.

Have a great day everyone!!

BTW, I give SO much credit to those who study and learn another language. Honestly, I'm not sure I could do it. But if I did, I sure would hope my mistakes would bring a smile to someone else, too.