What's your favorite joke that doesn't translate to English very well?

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What's your favorite joke that doesn't translate to English very well? - Lemmy.World

Give me your wordplay and obscure culture references, I love them all.

「野菜を食べやさい!」

I think a close-enough approximation (which isn’t close at all) would be “eat your veggies, peas.”

Is -やさい just a cheeky pun off of -なさい?
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In the garden, there are two chickens.

庭には、鶏が二羽いる。

I almost forgot about that one!

English is squeezing the last scraps of Japanese out of me. :(