Language Structure Problems

Some More "Funny" Jokes to Read

With thanks to ENG6150, summer 2011! aren't these funny, funny people?! (Be aware as you read that individual pronunciation sometimes varies between speakers.)

1. You could have some fun with variations of the transcription of the punchline for the first one.
[ʌ mæn wɔkt Intu ʌ bar]
[autʃ]

2.[nak nak]
[huz ðer]
[bʌnænʌ]
[bʌnænʌ hu]
[nak nak]
[huz ðer]
[bʌnænʌ]
[bʌnænʌ hu]
[nak nak]
[huz ðer]
[bʌnænʌ]
[bʌnænʌ hu]
[nak nak]
[huz ðer]
[ɔrʌndʒ]
[ɔrʌndʒ hu]
[ɔrʌndʒ ju glæd aj dIdnt sej bʌnænʌ]

3. [nak nak]
[huz ðer]
[bu]
[bu hu]
[waj ar ju krajIŋ Its onli mi]

4. It is interesting to see what people chose to do with the punctuationmarks. Notice that they can never go inside the []. It's fair to shift the transcription of the punchline here slightly, since you'd pronounce it slightly differently.
[nak nak]!
[huz ðer]?
[aləv]!
[aləv hu]?
[alʌv ju]!

5. Look at the different transcriptions of 'and' here.
[wʌts blæk æn wajt n̩ rεd ɔl ovr̩]?
[ʌ bʊk]

6. [waj Iz sIks əfrejd ʌv sεvIn]
[bikɔz sεvIn ejt najn]

7. I've removed some word boundaries on the question here:
[əhɔrs wɔksIntu ə bar]
[ðə bartεndr̩ sεz]:
[waj ðə lɔŋ fejs]?

8. Fun with brackets and quotation marks:
[waj Iz ða lεtr̩ ti lajk æn ajlənd]?
[bikɔz] "t" [Iz In ðə mIdl̩ ʌv] 'water'!

9. Some different, but still quite readable vowel choices here. also note that you could use [θ] where this transcriber used [ð]. Try to figure out which you have in your pronunciation of the word in question. I like this joke in particular because it plays with word boundaries.
[wɔt du ja kɔl ə dir wIðawt ajz]?
... ... [now ajdir]

10. [waj dId ða tʃIkIn krɔs ða rowd]
[tu gεt əwej frʌm ðiz bæd dʒoks]