Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:00 PM
Second observation of the first week! :D
My friend, her friend (let's call him Pete for ease of reference), and I were on the bus back home. The both of them were friends since JC and were telling me about how they had the same private Math tutor who was a gym rat and extremely buffed. Anyway, Pete suddenly said "He killed my mother". To which I went "?!?!".
And he continued, "Cause he's an auntie-killer".
His story reminded me of the lexeme example that Dr Ooi gave in class; you "kick the bucket", not "the bucket was kicked by you".
So when Pete said that his Math tutor killed his mother, he altered the compound noun of "auntie" and "killer", changing it from an adjective (He's an auntie-killer) to an action (He killed my mother). I'm just glad he meant it in the metaphorical sense rather than the literal one. Haha.
5:36 PM
Omgosh the blog is so ugly without any postings hahaha. So what better excuse than to upload my first observation for this week! (Well besides that it's being graded but that's besides the point :) )
My friend and I (along with some of her friends) went to a hall play in school yesterday. One of the male characters, Ronald, was standing on a table while fixing the lamp. He was trying to put it back together after it was dismantled by another character. So he asked for a screw. And his wife announced to the other characters who were in the scene: "Everyone! Ronnie needs a screw!"
The joke here lies in the double entendre in the word "screw", just like the word "spunky" ;) So the audience laughed at the implicit sexual connotation since as informed young adults, we all got the joke. But I'm sure the children sitting at the front probably just thought he really needed the metal fastener :)
Friday, January 29, 2010 3:15 PM
Harlo! Testing out to see if this blog works :B
