User talk:Shelog~enwiki

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Laughter for chickens — or cats?

Hi, Shelog. I noticed that you changed the note about Simon's Russian safeword phrase on Serenity (film). Can you tell me a bit more about why you made the change? A quick Google search tells me that "enough to make a cat laugh" is an English expression (I'd never heard it here in the States), and it seems to mean something exceptionally funny. My Russian is a bit rusty, and I wasn't familiar with the proverb ""Это курам на смех", so I asked a native speaker, and he gave me the literal translation "That's laughter for chickens" and the colloquial meaning "That's ridiculous". I took that to mean "that's ridiculous" in a dismissive sense, but perhaps I was wrong. Are you a Russian speaker? Is the phrase really equivalent to the English expression — does it mean "that's ridiculous" in the sense of something being funny enough for a chicken (or a cat) to laugh at? You can let me know on my talk page. Thanks! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 02:50, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]