Its A Fair Point

This classified newspaper advert .....

Classified As A Joke .....

..... was a joke birthday present in India between a brother, and his sisters best friend for his unmarried sister who was turning 30.

A Woman's Place

The Arts Council of Pakistan has traditionally, like all other institutions in that country, been an all male affair.

Male Chauvinism Rules .... OK?

So when it decided to organises a discussion in November 2019 on feminism called Feminism: The Other Perspective, it did what it has always done and invited only an all-male panel. Oh, they did have one token woman, discussion host Uzma al-Karim, whose name featured at the bottom of the promotional literature.

Unintended Consequences

The French sentence 'La tortue manges des pâtes'  .... The turtle (or maybe tortoise) is eating some pasta? or maybe pastries? What is eating What?

 

La Tortue Manges Des Pâtes
 - Turtle Eating Pasta?

By locking their language in to unresponsive straight jacket, the French end up with the ridiculous situation that as 'Pasta' is not a French word, they won't officially use the word 'Pasta', but instead have to use a 'French' equivalent which was 'Pâtes', but which can also mean pastry / pastries. So they end up with ambiguous statements like above.