One thing you don't have in Russian...

Here's a trick my best friend showed me which doesn't work in your language (yeeeah English FTW):

ru
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18qtπ

READ IT!!! Though you have to know our math phrasing. First person to get it gets a cybercookie!

-DOS forever

 

heh i solved it!

spoiler

Are you over 18 cute pie

 

Yaaay B13 gets a cybercookie! BTW how come you never answered my PMs???

-DOS forever

 

Hm, I've heard about the same thing.

WOOD
JOHN

 

What is "wood john" supposed to be?

-DOS forever

 

John Underwood.

 

Yuck. Ever since "Carrie Underwood" (I wish I could forget she even exists), I don't want to know anything more about anyone with the last name "Underwood."

-DOS forever

 

Looks like you might envy me then, since I don't know her. I don't even know Justin Bieber as well!
But you don't know Lehna Zosimova and Russian Shanson. So I guess it is a tie here. =)

 

You're lucky! Never have anything to do with them!

-DOS forever

 

But Russian language has one indisputable advantage: anything non-russian scripting in IT we are calling "КРАКОЗЯБРЫ"

 

And what's funny about that?

-DOS forever

 

Actually there are such things in Russian. Aaaand other languages as well. They're called РЕБУСЫ. Google it, my star-striped friend. 8)

 

DOS навсегда, the funny part is that it's an exceptionally-funny sounding word. Try it: krakozyabry! =)

 

You've been fired!

 

Absolutely nothing That's fact, not a joke

But it is funny sounding word, I agree

 

Lol. I guess maybe you have to be Russian to get why; just sounds like any Russian word to me. Maybe slightly off the norm, but still, nothing incredibly special.

-DOS forever

 

Hmm, I agree that КРАКОЗЯБРЫ sounds funny to the Russian ear. Must be an inherently funny word. I suppose the criteria of funny-ness vary heavily from language to language.

That's not exactly the same as the example in the OP. There are virtually no letters in the Russian alphabet (or any other characters for that matter) that sound like Russian words in isolated pronunciation (by "virtually" I mean there are one letter words "а", "и", "я", but that's not even remotely the same thing as c u l8ter and stuff like that).

 

The link, my dear Flibble, is not very helpful. Looking at a couple of those words, I can't say I find them especially funny. Such as "bewildered" or "behoove." Nothing funny about those. Perhaps the second, but only slightly. It's nothing incredible at all.

-DOS forever

 

DOS навсегда, how about aardvark? Titmouse (or, better yet, titmice)? Subpoena? The Animaniacs had a crazy funny joke about that one =)

 

Well, I also wouldn't say that КРАКОЗЯБРА makes me burst in laughter whenever I read it But it's a combination of sounds that is potentially funny and/or at least somewhat unusual.