Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar

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🗓️ 9 June 2014

⏱️ 3 minutes

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When does 'funny' have nothing to do with laughter?

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0:00.0	This is a feature from BBC learning English.
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0:09.0	forward slash podcasts.
0:11.0	The English we speak.
0:16.0	Hi there Helen.
0:17.0	Now something really funny happened to me on my way here this morning.
0:21.0	Oh really do tell me I love a funny story. Right a man got
0:25.4	on my bus wearing his shoes on the wrong feet. Okay and what happened next?
0:31.5	Well then he started speaking to me.
0:33.6	He asked if I liked Shakespeare.
0:35.6	Oh, right.
0:37.3	And then he started reading one of Hamlet's famous speeches.
0:41.3	Yeah, Neil. Yeah. You told me it was a funny story but I'm not
0:47.6	laughing it's not funny. It's a bit weird. Yeah I meant funny peculiar, not funny ha ha.
0:54.0	Funny peculiar?
0:56.0	Yes, funny is usually something you laugh about.
1:00.0	But sometimes we use funny to mean strange or weird.
1:03.4	Because it has these two meanings,
1:05.4	sometimes people want to make it clear
1:07.9	which one they mean.
1:09.2	Funny ha ha is for things which make you laugh and funny peculiar describes
1:15.0	it describes things which are weird that's it
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