Very squeamish hedgehog rolls up into a ball not fully...

no one who speaks English as a primary language...

I think I get it, but will keep quiet so as not to spoil the fun for everyone else.

You may not want to keep quiet any longer Brice.

Think he's trying to tell us, roll up too tight, ie. isolate yourself from the world and you'll only hurt yourself.

Grizz

I really appreciate the humor vashper brings us. Thank you vashper. But sometimes it can be a little difficult to understand.

For example, here is an original English language joke:

A horse walks into a bar. The bar tender asks, "Why the long face?"


The Vashper version:

An animal horse in drinking place goes. Man at bar says, "Your face not short, why is so?"

Exactly!

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Originally posted by Grenadier:
I really appreciate the humor vashper brings us. Thank you vashper. But sometimes it can be a little difficult to understand.

For example, here is an original English language joke:

A horse walks into a bar. The bar tender asks, "Why the long face?"


The Vashper version:

An animal horse in drinking place goes. Man at bar says, "Your face not short, why is so?"

The situation is even more complicated. After all, there is a play on the idiom, which has no literal translation. "Horse face" is not associated in Russian language with sorrow, rather we can say about the German or the British; that he has a horse face. So computer translators translate in Russian up to meaning of idiom:

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, "Why so sad?"

It's almost incomprehensible to Russians, and English, in principle, can get.

Actually, I was thinking that the squeamish hedgehog was repulsed by his own butt. My cat is not.

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Originally posted by Brice:
Actually, I was thinking that the squeamish hedgehog was repulsed by his own butt. My cat is not.

Your cat's butt would be repulsed by his forehead if that one was full of sharp quills!