When looking for the key to a certain encryption, trying to guess the understatement, the brain trains, and the mood improves. But this, of course, if the correct answer is found.
Besides, this is a useful activity, and also a lot of fun! Try to guess why the tongue is in the mouth. There will be laughter!
Any pun?
The word "pun" came to Russian from French. In the Fifth Republic, the term calembour denoted such a literary device, when similar in sound were used in a single context:
- several meanings of one concept;
- meanings of two or more words;
- meanings of different phrases.
There are the following variations of puns:
- The named word has a homonym (that is, they are spelled the same but mean different things).
- Any word of a pun has many meanings (has not one, but several lexical meanings).
- In the process of pronouncing several words that stand side by side, a new concept is obtained.
Puns are the weapon of a comedian, that is, a person who is able to notice in the worldfunny phenomena that are based on contradictions, and share them with others.
The comic effect is achieved by emphasizing the contrasts of meaning. Such is the play on words in the question “why is the tongue in the mouth?”
Old acquaintances. Elephant and Bonaparte
There are many so-called riddles-jokes built on this literary device - a pun:
In the circus honestly the elephant worked:
He made everyone laugh and entertained.
And bananas to work
Directly received in the cage.
But everything changed one day, The giant has been released.
And with his important gait
He left the old circus.
Forgotten by a trainer
Only the castle dangles.
And his prison is open, And the elephant is having fun.
Question: what did our familiar elephant
Then, when did he come to the field?
(answer: eating grass)
Here the trick is that when pronouncing the combination of the words "on the field he" sounds like the name of a famous historical character: Napoleon. Accordingly, the guesser begins to look for some connection between the elephant and the commander Bonaparte.
No fluff, no feather
This principle is also used by the riddle “why the tongue is in the mouth”. And it will be described in the corresponding section along with similar puzzles. And now a few more well-known pun riddles for decades, united in a comic poem:
The hunter came before dawn
On the forest path.
"I'll get three hares", -
He decidedthe day before.
He often climbed for a long time.
Eared can not be seen.
The hunter went to the lake, To shoot ducks.
To meet him straight ahead, Absolutely, I tell you, small.
He opened his mouth in surprise, Didn't shoot and didn't get it.
History question asks you:
Why did the hunter carry his gun?
And I wanted to know something else:
Tell me, how many birds flew over it?
(answer: the hunter carried a gun over his shoulder, a flock of birds - 7 owls)
Here the pun is as follows: the word sounds almost the same as the combination of owls seven (especially with the special declamatory skills of the guesser). And the preposition "for" with the pronoun "what" is pronounced exactly the same as the interrogative adverb "why"?
Therefore, the guesser is forced to try to get at least some hints in the text about the number of birds in the flock and try to understand why the unlucky hunter carried a weapon with him if he never used it.
And here we come close to the riddle "why is there a tongue in the mouth." The answer to it is below. Although a clear hint can be found already in the previous poem. Maybe try to answer the question right now without reading the last paragraph? And then you can check yourself.
Why is there a tongue in the mouth?
Many riddles-jokes are based on the fact that in oral speech the preposition merges with the part of speech following it. Here are examples of such puzzles:
The man is walking, the turtle iscreeps. Why?
(answer: ground/sand/road)
At what point does a person become a tree?
(answer: from sleep)
When the grass clothes?
(answer: when they are mint)
Head road. Who?
(answer: ram/goat/cow/deer)
Therefore, the topic of this article is not at all why a tongue is needed in the mouth, but what it hides behind. And the answer will be the simplest and most obvious: behind the teeth!
