Yes it is, I will admit that generally the full phrase is spirit medium, but as soon as they mentioned ghosts it came full circle and made perfect sense.
I’m not saying it was nonsensical. I’m saying as a native English speaker I read the joke multiple times before I concluded the author was invoking the quintennial meaning of medium to stage a joke. I can see how non-native speakers would be flummoxed.
A medium is 1 a channel of communication (e.g., television, email), 2 a material used by artists (e.g., oil paint), or 3 a substance through which something travels, such as sound through air. It 4 also refers to an intermediate size between small and large, or 5 a person claiming to communicate with spirits
rather than figuratively inhaling your bowl of pasta this time you just literally inhale as you have it (maybe partially chewed, your choice) in your mouth ready for swallowing. deep pastaful breath. choking reflex should occur automatically (better hope so)
I don’t get it.
Spirit mediums claim they can communicate with the dead
Ahhh yes. Now I get it. Not being a native speaker makes these synonym jokes pass me by, sometimes. Thanks.
http://medium.urbanup.com/5173593
Urban Dictionary helps a lot with that.
As a native speaker it took a solid three reads to understand it. Medium is correct but not in parlance way to describe a psychic or soothsayer.
Yes it is, I will admit that generally the full phrase is spirit medium, but as soon as they mentioned ghosts it came full circle and made perfect sense.
I’m not saying it was nonsensical. I’m saying as a native English speaker I read the joke multiple times before I concluded the author was invoking the quintennial meaning of medium to stage a joke. I can see how non-native speakers would be flummoxed.
A medium is 1 a channel of communication (e.g., television, email), 2 a material used by artists (e.g., oil paint), or 3 a substance through which something travels, such as sound through air. It 4 also refers to an intermediate size between small and large, or 5 a person claiming to communicate with spirits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship
Try harder
Choke on a noodle.
How?
rather than figuratively inhaling your bowl of pasta this time you just literally inhale as you have it (maybe partially chewed, your choice) in your mouth ready for swallowing. deep pastaful breath. choking reflex should occur automatically (better hope so)
I dont think I understand what you’re asking of me
just trying to help in case you were stuck
What a champ