Bilingual pun

A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language.

The bilingual pun can also demonstrate common ground with a person who speaks another language.

In Exodus 10:10, Moses is warned by the Egyptian Pharaoh that evil awaits him.

[3] Unintentional bilingual puns occur in translations of one of Shakespeare's plays: Henry V. The line spoken by Katherine, "I cannot speak your England" becomes political in French.

[4][specify] The famous paper “Fun with F1” is a French-English pun as 1 is un in French.

A bilingual pun: Where do cats go when they die? In English PURRgatory, in Spanish PurGATOrio .