過日の都留文科大「英語ユーモア事始め」の画像。

皆さんイソイソと。

講師、英語で数分挨拶。その後は混ぜて。

個人的ユーモア楽習や体験談＋英語ユーモアの公式と意義・効用を説明。

社会人学生の方々も含め、皆さん熱心に耳傾けていただく。

下は最後のDad jokesコーナーのスライドを背に。

ユーモアの講演に笑い多々あってホッと安堵の講師。

遠く美しき学びの里。

New York, New Yorkのシナトラの歌声が聞こえる。

♪ If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere…..

Thanks for having me.

このDodoとは？

斎場の車にこうあったから気になって仕方がない。
dodoはモーリシャス島にいた鳥で絶滅し
　　as dead as a dodo
という頭韻イディオムがその死後に生まれた。
何とも皮肉な話だ。d音頭韻の同義のフレーズは他に
　　as dead as a doornail
　　as dead as a dormouse
がある。（どれもユーモアのセンスなしでは
使われることはないけれど。ちなみに
『不思議の国のアリス』にはdormouseとdodoが登場する）
で、どうなんだろう、このDodo Mortuaryは。
ハワイ語にはdodoはないようだし。
暗いユーモアでは名付けられないビジネスではないかと・・・
英語島でまだ営業しているのだろうか？

これも３の法則。

Thought for a moment I had coined the word “cinemanners,” but, alas, I went online and found seven little hits looking at me.

Maybe I did this before, but now it’s back with a more attractive title–
Spaghetti Eastern!

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.  Fran Lebowitz

都留文科大学英文学会前期講演会の講師に招かれ「英語ユーモア事始め」という講演を７月５日午後４時半より９０分、同大学で行います。高校・大学時代から学び始めた英語ユーモアの形や作り方、英語ユーモアの効用や意義について、個人的体験も交えて話を進めたく、英語を学ぶ方、英語を教える方のヒントになれば幸いです。

I got a card from my daughter for Father’s Day.

It’s the funnest and wittiest card I’ve ever had for the occasion. (The content was even better.) Though I don’t dress like Clark Kent, the humor is flattering. Wish there were Daughter’s Day.

神代植物園での展示も好評とのことです。

一点、同植物園での会には遠山松奈の作品は展示されておりません。学習院大の会場に展示されます。
お知らせが遅くなり恐縮です。お詫び申し上げます。

巨大な労作。
そのサイズと重要性はtitanicと呼んで余り有り。今世紀になっても走っているのは立派。
COUGH　　ROUGH　　THROUGH　　BOUGH
単語の綴りと発音に統一性があまりないとよく言われる英語ですが　その食い違いの実例を多数取り上げてライムで綴った詩です。その”惨状”をどのくらい理解しているか、ご自分でチェックしてみては。
ＡＡＢＢＣＣ・・・のライムスキームなので、行末に来た単語が読めない場合は、その前あるいは後の行末の語の発音と合わせればＯＫ。オランダの英語研究家Gerard Nolst Trenitéの作品です。

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!”

Gerard Nolst Trenité, Drop Your Foreign Accent

Coffee is a language in itself.　Jackie Chan

一杯やりながら考えつつ・・・

ちなみにこの店は照明明るく本読みが楽なので有り難し。

「ジャッキーちゃん」になるのでチェンにしたかChanの発音を音写したのか。
Hmmm.
Coffee is a massage on your brain. K.T.