Dad Jokes

I love a linguistics lesson, but this sentence is not actually that ambiguous.

If the sentence was unclear, the speaker would likely clarify:

• I saw a fox on its way to work
• I saw a fox on my way to work

I often see in manga Chinese/Korean/Japan jokes explained, because they don't work in english. Don't be butthurt.

Oh well, I guess its not for that market. I got it and that is really all that matters to me. I've heard quite a few jokes that translate badly in to English I just can accept that sometimes a joke can't be readily translated without getting excited.

You couldn't construct a Chinese sentence with dual meanings? Maybe not this one, but any? I know literally no Chinese, so I can't cite an example; but I thought completely unambiguous communication was why constructed languages like lojban exist.

edit: In a question about grammar, I used redundant words, but I can't think of a better replacement for "construct" in either case. I tried, though.

I found the dad!

That's cute

"I saw a fox on the way to work" works just fine

I would totally say "I saw insert thing on the way to work today," and would have assumed that would be the natural way to say it, but now I'm questioning that

You can always subtly rephrase it to make the joke in person. The first sentence of the following can actually be pretty broad.

W: "I saw a fox on my way to work!"

H: "Sorry, I didn't quite catch that. You saw a fox on the way to work?"

W: "Yes!"

H: "How did you know it was on its way to work?"

I saw a fox on one's way to work.

Actually, scratch that