Sentence #42 - REVEALED
How did you do?
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
These are the things that might have tripped you up:
The consonant-vowel connections and reductions in like an arrow, which sounds like liken-narrow.
The consonant-vowel connection in like a, which sounds like one word lika
What this is (supposed to be) funny:
This pun relies on the different uses of like and the different uses of flies.
In the first part, we see like used in a comparative phrase, and in the second half, like is a verb
Also, in the first part, flies is used as a verb, and in the second, it’s part of the noun phrase fruit flies.
This joke really demonstrates just how crazy the English language is because, although the two halves appear to be similar, they’re really linguistically different.
Did you get it? 😆
Super interesting.