NP - Google translate and The funniest joke in the world

[Robert Mahnke]

That (second) link is awesome. I only survived because I don't know much
German.

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Carlo <mr.spoon21 at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
>
> "The British Army wish to determine "the military potential of the Killer
> Joke." They test the joke on a rifleman (Terry Jones), who snickers and
> falls dead on the range. They then translate it into German, with each
> translator working on only one word of the joke for their own safety (one
> translator saw two words of the joke and had to be hospitalised). The
> German translation is used for the first time on 8 July 1944 in the
> Ardennes, causing German soldiers to fall down dead from laughter:
>
>     Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die
> Flipperwaldt gersput!"
>
> https://translate.google.com/#de/en/Wenn%20ist%20das%20Nunst
> %C3%BCck%20git%20und%20Slotermeyer%3F%20Ja!%20Beiherhund%
> 20das%20Oder%20die%20Flipperwaldt%20gersput!
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