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挑战#51:A Day a Jiong (Comic Quiz)


feihong

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1. Why is Doctor Liu's girlfriend upset?

2. How makes this joke work, linguistically speaking?

3. Where's the grammar mistake?

Source: 一日一囧四格漫画

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Here's my try:

1. The girl is upset because the doctor has not given her flowers in a long time.

2. Because "有钱花" is not really a flower but the ability to spend money on her. It turns out that it's the same "花" for "花钱" (to spend money) and for flower.

3. I think the last "吗" is incorrectly used, since it's not a question. It should probably be "嘛".

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Thanks for the blog link. It was good that you specifically asked about the "why" of using that word. I see that word quite often but never thought about the real meaning until you asked for it. So I learned something new!

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Our local Caribou Coffee has a chalk board and every weeks asks a random opinion question (e.g. "What is your favorite travel destination?" "Who will win the World Series?", etc.).

This week, the question was "What is your favorite flower?". I was just about to write 有钱花, when I totally blanked on how to write "花". It was horrible!

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