r/ChineseLanguage • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '20

Humor mayonnaise

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u/Tiffany_Achings_Hat Oct 02 '20

This is one of my favorite stupid jokes with my SO- whenever I have the opportunity I ask 有没有mayo? I think I’m funnier than he does.

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u/umami_aypapi Oct 03 '20

But did you say 有没有mayo or did you say 有mayo 没有？

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

Finally a joke I can understand with my atrocious level of Chinese

5

u/soutmo Oct 02 '20

This is so dumb. I love it hahah, got a chuckle out of me!

1

u/Snugrilla Oct 03 '20

If you type 有没有， does that make it into a question? (I thought that only worked with 不).

Sorry to interrupt the joke with an actual grammar question. :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '20

Yeah if you say 有没有 it implies a question

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u/cognitivetech1 Oct 03 '20

It is so bad that it is sooo good. Saving this one for sure!

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '20

Somebody else got this little hope about succeeding in learning chinese when understood this joke 😭? #beginnerslevel

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u/Chencingmachine Oct 03 '20

😂😂😂😂

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u/jimli159 Oct 03 '20

Reminded me of this post

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u/kahn1969 Oct 03 '20

wow, true mayo mayo found in the wild

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u/pomegranate2012 Oct 02 '20

I don't get it.

Is that really bad mayonnaise?

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u/Bobby632663 Oct 02 '20

没有 (meiyou) = there isn't ;)

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u/pomegranate2012 Oct 02 '20

There isn't what? A joke?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

I don't know if you really didn't catch the joke or if you're actually joking too

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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 Oct 02 '20

In case your response isn't in itself a bad joke, "没有" (meiyou) is pronounced pretty much the same as "mayo"

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u/pomegranate2012 Oct 02 '20

I still don't get it.

I guess you need a crazy-high level of Chinese to understand this one.

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u/kahn1969 Oct 03 '20

没有mayo means "don't have mayo", and it's pronounced a lot like "mayo mayo". the whole joke is just 没有 sounds like mayo. there isn't anything deeper to it