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Can someone who knows French better than me explain this joke?
I just read Astérix Legionnaire to try to freshen up my school French, and I made it through (with lots of trips to the dictionary) but this gag stumps me.
The Egyptian says "poil aux sourcils" (eyebrow hair) which is apparently funny, then "poil au nez" (nose hair) and then "poils aux mains" (hairs on the hands).
I found this on wiktionary for "poil au nez": (informal, humorous) Used as a rhyme with a word ending with the /e/ sound. So are these all just random rhymes? I don't really see how "fin" would rhyme with "mains", but I'm obviously not good with French pronunciation.
u/RFS-81 — 6 days ago