Welcome to the ENG 276 Course Blog

Welcome to the ENG 276 Interpretation, Spring 2010 course blog.

Please feel free to express your impressions, views and opinions based on what has been happening during class.

The Blog is open to all who wish to participate in a respectful exchange of thoughts, ideas, positions, proposals, and anything else that comes up as long as the subject is about the issues that concern the U.S. culture as a whole.

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I hope you enjoy this education experience.

E. Prifti, Course Instructor

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Translating Humor: Exercise 2

Posted by Unknown on Thursday, April 29, 2010 / Comments: (16)
Speaker: Mr President, I have made so many concessions on this
resolution that I feel I am sticking my neck out.

President: Well, I will do all I can to make sure it doesn’t get
chopped off. (laughter)

Translating Humor: Exercise 1

Posted by Unknown / Comments: (16)
A limerick is a humorous verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba.
Give your Albanian versions of the following limerick.


Serguei is a difficult name
To slip in the limerick game
But we have to admit
That he looks so fit
That he puts the whole Council to shame.