1 Mordekai: Here's the three-way fork. We go right.
1 Lambert: The ghost said left.
2 Mordekai: No, he said right.
2 Lambert: He said left was right!
3 Mordekai: Oh, I suppose you'd believe him if he said black was white!
3 Lambert: I suppose you think right is never wrong!
4 Draak: This not be such mess if you all speak Draak tongue...

I wonder how many jokes the corpus of English literature, television, and film would lose if the common words for right (the direction) and right (as in correct) were different.

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2024-04-07 Rerun commentary: I wonder how many jokes you really have to stop and think about before you get them.