Linguistic humour

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Just came across this page the other day:

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/

Have fun.

I thought the "lowere crime" article was cute.

BeeBee

One headline is missing

"Queen Mary(ocean liner) has bottom scraped"

I once knew a chap whose second language was English, a great one for the philandering. He cane in one day, puffed out his chest and said
' Either you got it,
Or,
You don't got it.'
Question: If you find this amusing at all, what is it you are laughing at.
I find it a beautifully ironic phrase, and if I'd had the foresight at the time I'd have thanked the chap for discovering it.
It didn't occur to me that he might take it as an insult to his ability to speak English. It's just such a concise phrase, beautiful.

I don't get it. Is it supposed to be funny?

No, I don't get that one either. I looked at the link and found some of the stuff humorous - in fact I tend to find things like linguistic humour far funnier than slapstick (extreme, circus-like and 'clowning around' behaviour), or situational humour.

Very few people do find it funny. Sadly most of those that find it funny seem to find it so because ithey think t's "stupid foreigner" stuff. I just find the grammer very appealing and might just as easily have been said by some of my non-foreign neighbours. I frequently fing newspaper reportage and other printed matter funny for similar reasons, but I'm just weird.