two?", a Modern Hebrew speaker can say ???? ????; ??? ????, ??? ???? , literally "in-order complete; she in-order, I complete", i.e., "We are very good. She is good, I am finished". Note the ambiguity of the Hebrew lexical item ???? : it means both "complete" and "finished". A parallel punning paraprosdokian in English is a man's response to a friend's question "Why are you and your wife here?: A workshop; I am working, she is shopping."

Examples

* "If I could just say a few

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