[LMB] OT: First Book, Second Language

[ANDREW BARTON]

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:28:34 -0400
From: Christine Forber <christine at forber.net>
> Question for those on the list who are fluent in languages 
other than English. Are spoonerisms common in languages 
other than English? What about puns? Is it universal to 
"play" with language, or is that something more commonly 
done in English?

Christine <
   
  Of my own knowledge I can say that there's at least one pun in Virgil's Aeneid.  According to Tony Hillerman in his detective novels set in a Navajo reservation, the language of the Navajo is full of earthy puns.
   
  Andrew