Ask A Question, Get Bit

Nationality: Korean-American
Age: 15 and 45
Occupation: student and photographer
Residence: San Jose, CA
Performance Date: 3/23/2014
Primary Language: English
Language: Korean

D: 아빠 나 아빠한테 뭐 물어봐도되요?

F: 물으면 아프지.

D: 네?

F:물 면 아프다고. 

 

D: Father, can I ask you something?

F: If you do, it’ll hurt.

D: Huh?

F: If you ask me a question, it will hurt.

 

In korean, the word “ask” is the same spelling as “bite.” This is a play on words that I overheard a father and daughter converse while at church. The daughter asks the father if she can ask him a question, and he reinterprets the question as “can I bite you.”