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JUST FOR LAUGHING

Previously, few policemen could speak fluent and correct English, however, they were able to communicate with the expatriate officers.

Hereunder comes :

A traffic rank-and-file reported an incident to an inspector, saying, "Street Mouth, one car come, one car go: two cars Ping-ling Bum-lum."
"Yes No man die?"
"Yes, one man sleeping, no air."
"Understood."

Nowadays, most of the policemen speak fluent & correct English.:lol:lol

haha.  Thanks.

This is progress and is good for Hong Kong.  :verygood:

But we still lag behind Singapore and even India a lot in terms of conversational English ... :Q

what we need is to learn some english culture.

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[quote]原帖由 [i]炮艇工兵[/i] 於 2006-8-24 08:17 發表


Few can remember this joke, but your first sentences seems to have missed out another phrase:

"Street Mouth, one car come, one car go: two cars Ping-ling Bum-lum, many ya ya ya."  ... [/quote]

:applause::applause::applause:

There are two consequences with and without " many ya ya ya" . Without these few words, the accident report may be shorter than that with them. The policeman writing the long report may also yell  ya ya ya, too ! ;P

[quote]原帖由 [i]neiahyeah[/i] 於 2006-8-20 10:54 PM 發表
Previously, few policemen could speak fluent and correct English, however, they were able to communicate with the expatriate officers.

Hereunder comes :

A traffic rank-and-file reported an in ... [/quote]

Well, the version I heard long time ago was something like this:

Inspector: "Constable, what happened?"

PC: "Sir, one car come, one car go, two cars kissing bum bum bum!  One man died.  One man ngai ya ya...";P:lol;P

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Bravo:verygood:

More impressive.:applause:

Perhaps, you are coming from the Police.:wondering:

HA HA

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It seems that I've missed this joke ! But better late than never ... thanks brother  koolaar  for sharing this wonderful piece of joke with us ... :bow:

it's really a funny joke, thank you

Thanks..........

hahah, it's funny ar....and many Hkers speaking that too

Quite funny :)

But just a point to take note. The correct grammar is "Just for laughs". I only corrected you because this is after all the english learning forum.

[quote]原帖由 [i]qwerty_121[/i] 於 2006-9-1 04:11 PM 發表
Quite funny :)

But just a point to take note. The correct grammar is "Just for laughs". I only corrected you because this is after all the english learning forum. [/quote]


Hi Brother Qwerty:verygood:

Welcome to join in.  

I'm sure "JUST FOR LAUGHS" is correct.  From our experience + knowledge we are aware that "proper Usage" is as important as "grammar".   "proper usage" means "general usage / commonly used style".  In this case we must say " Just for Laughs ".  Same for " Just for Fun / Just for the Fun of it ", which is normally used as a "Heading".

Anyway, "Just for Laughing" is "improper usage", although grammatically correct.
One example : "Wish You a Happy New Year" / "Wishing You a Happy New Year" / "Wish You Have a Happy New Year
-- which is "proper usage"?

Answer : "Wishing You a Happy New Year" is the only acceptable / proper phrase.  Others?  Improper, although often seen in everyday writings.

I emphasize : "Just for Laughs" is correct.
"Just for Laughing" is inproperly used.

When i typed out "Just for laughing" the other day, I knew it was incorrect, nevertheless, i had no intention to correct it as I was in the state of "看山還是山 看水還是水".

I 'd like to put your comment  this way: "Just a point to note : The correct [u]usage [/u]is "Just for Laughs".  I only corrected this because this is after all an
English Learning Forum. "



:Q:Q:Q:shit::butwiggle:
:lol:lol:lol

I believe most chinese understand what policeman was talking about

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