u/Confident-Evening520

I've been watching the show *Teach You a Lesson* on Netflix and in episode 9 (at about the 10-minute-mark for anyone who's seen it/is curious), one of the characters makes a joke to break some tension, and it's clear that it's kind of a stupid joke/pun/groaner, and then he repeats it, but I don't know if the translation in the English subtitles does a good job of getting the joke across.

The English has it as him saying, "why did the Inspector cross the road?" And then later he repeats it as, "Don't make me cross the road."

But if I switch to Korean subtitles, they read as:

말리는 건 오징어를 말려 주시고요 (the first line)

나 말리지 마 / 나 오징어 아니야 (the second line, broken up bc the camera angles)

When I put the Korean in Google Translate, it says something about drying squid, and to not dry him because he's not a squid? I'm just confused. And like, okay, yeah, I get that jokes in general (and puns in particular) are some of the most difficult things to translate while keeping faithful to the original humor/punch line, so I'm glad they didn't try to literally translate what he said to make it clearer that he's being ridiculous, but surely there's a better English equivalent to what's being said in Korean?

Essentially my questions are, what is the joke that he's making, why would it (potentially) be funny to Koreans, or is it actually just as stupid/nonsensical as "why did the chicken (or here, inspector) cross the road"?

Thanks in advance for any help!

It happens at about the 10-minute-mark, and Netflix subtitles just translate it as "why did the Inspector cross the road?" And then later he repeats it as "Don't make me cross the road." Clearly there's some kind of pun happening here that might not have a literal translation, but surely there's a better English equivalent they could've gone with?

If I switch to Korean subtitles, they read as:

말리는 건 오징어를 말려 주시고요 (the first line)

나 말리지 마 / 나 오징어 아니야 (the second line, broken up bc the camera angles)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Hi everyone! I am currently reorganizing my books (finally) and trying to sort them by genre. I'm having trouble though with categorizing a few.

For example, I have a copy of The Complete Works and Letters of Charles Lamb, which is mostly poetry, essays, and a few short stories, but I don't know where to "file" it, so to speak. Since it's only one author, I don't think it technically goes with Anthologies, but it also has different forms of writing - non-fiction, verse, prose, etc. - so I wouldn't really put it in either just poetry or just short story collections. I think there might be a little of autobiographical stuff with the letters, but I also wouldn't really put it with memoirs/autobiographies...I know it's not that serious, but this is seriously bugging me.

I also have another pair of books by a single author that are his collected works, but one book is just his poetry and the other is just prose (mostly non-fiction). They came in a little book box that shows off the spines together; do I keep the books together or do I just put the collected poetry with my poetry books and the prose with...I guess essays?

Any help will be deeply appreciated!! I fear I'm not going to make much progress if I can't get past this snag 😭