one of my fave challenges in a translator’s job — making wordplay jokes work in another language

today’s gem:
- what’s the difference between a piano, a tuna, and glue?
- what?
- you can tune a piano, but you can’t piano a tuna
- what about the glue?
- everyone gets stuck on that

my dear Russian speaking frens, feel free to offer your ideas on how to translate it
i have something in mind but i'm curious to look at what others think
and yes, you can comment in Russian, of course

I translate movies, co-own a loss-making fast-food joint, and raise two kids

Oh I've seen this joke before! It always astonished me how translators manage to translate some puns 😁 when they manage somehow to keep the meaning - it's double astonishing hahhaa

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yeah but random puns like this within an otherwise regular dialogue are still okay
the wildest stuff is trying to translate comedy shows