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- Direct to indirect speech in jokes
- Examples of jokes with direct speech
- Examples of jokes with indirect speech
The direct and indirect speech they are two different forms of enunciation. In direct speech, something said by another person is referred to, transcribed verbatim, while in indirect speech the narrator transmits what someone said. For example:
- Direct speech. My mother asked me: "Can you go buy me some medicine?"
- Indirect speech. My mother asked me to buy her some medicine.
The choice of one speech or another will depend on the style of the narrator, but also on the expressive needs of the moment, since direct speech reproduces the original conditions of enunciation, while indirect speech allows the narrator to mediate and interpret.
- See also: Colmos
Direct to indirect speech in jokes
The direct and indirect speech is particularly notorious in the matter of jokes, jokes or humorous narratives, in which a series of fictitious events are related whose outcome is funny, comic or imaginary.
This can be done directly, that is, by reproducing dialogues, comments and situations as if they were occurring in the present moment, or indirectly, through the point of view of the narrator.
Examples of jokes with direct speech
- In a restaurant, the customer calls the waiter:
- Waiter, there's a fly on my plate!
- It's the picture on the plate, sir.
- But it is moving!
- It is then a cartoon!
- At school, the teacher asks Jaimito:
- How did David kill Goliath?
- With a motorcycle, teacher.
- No, Jaimito! It was with a sling.
- Oh, but did you want the make of the bike?
- Jaimito tells his pregnant mother:
- Mom, what do you have in your belly?
- A baby that your dad gave me.
- Dad, don't give any more babies to Mom because she eats them!
- Jaimito runs into his mother's room:
- Mom, Mom, do the chocolate candies walk?
- No, son, candies don't walk.
- Ah, so I ate a cockroach.
- At the hospital:
- Doctor, doctor, how was the operation?
- Operation? Wasn't it an autopsy?
- Two children talk:
- My father knows three languages perfectly.
- Mine knows many more.
- Are you a polyglot?
- No, dentist.
- A man walks into a pet store:
- Hello, I want to know the price of this parrot.
- One thousand dollars.
- Why so much?
- Well, he speaks English, French and German.
- And this other one?
- Two thousand dollars.
- And what can you do?
- He speaks Russian, Chinese, Greek and recites fragments of literary works.
- And that other one over there?
- That one is worth ten thousand dollars.
- And what does that know how to do?
- Well, I haven't heard him say a word, but the other two call him "boss."
- During dinner, Jaimito asks his mother:
- Mom, is it true that we descend from monkeys?
- I don't know, honey, your father never introduced me to his family.
- A child runs into the house:
- Mom, the teacher says I'm always distracted!
- Child, your house is next door.
- Jaimito comes home very happy:
- Dad, dad, I cheated on the bus driver.
- How so, son?
- Yes, I paid for the ticket and then I didn't get on.
Examples of jokes with indirect speech
- Two children are late to class and the teacher asks them why they were not on time. The first responds that he was dreaming that he traveled the whole world and visited hundreds of countries, and the second boy who had to go to the airport to pick him up.
- On a farm, a man asks another if he has already put the saddle on the horse. He replies yes, but that there has been no way to make him sit down.
- Once upon a time there was a man so, so, so, so, that they called him a bell.
- This was such a foolish man that he sold his car to buy gasoline.
- Once upon a time there was a child so, so stupid, that when the teacher erased the blackboard, he erased his notes from the notebook.
- It is not the same to say that a trapeze artist has brains, to say that a trapeze artist has brains.
- A man comes home drenched in sweat. His wife asks him why and says that he came running after the bus, because that way he could save six pesos. His wife tells him to do the same tomorrow behind a taxi and thus save forty.
- Once upon a time there was a cat called a cigar. He went out one day and ... they smoked it.
- This was a mailman so, so slow, that when he delivered the letters they were already historical documents.
- This was such an ugly child that when he was born the spankings were given to his parents by the doctor.
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