Talk:Yon Yonson

Variant
I have heard another version, where "I work as a lumberjack there" is replaced by "I earn my five dollars a day."Carrionluggage 05:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

My family's version is: 'My name is John Jonson, I come from Wisconsin, I work in the lumber-yard there there there, I walk down the street, the people I meet, they say "Hello!" I say "Hello!" They say "What's your name?" and I say... (reapeat words) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.110 (talk) 16:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

The version I learned is "My name is Yun Yunson, I come from Wisconsin, I work in a lumber mill too. All the people I meet, when I walk down the street, will ask, "What's your name?", and I'll tell them... ✏✎✍✌✉✈✇✆✃✄Ⓠ‽ (talk) 12:42, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

My Mother is certain that the version my Grandfather sang had the third line: "I work in the butter fields there." She remembers asking him what that line meant, as she assumed that it had to do with butterflies. He of course explained that it was referring to dairies. She did not recall the rest of the words past that line. cannona (talk) 16:45, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Nationality
I think that the song probably pokes fun at Swedes, not the Dutch. The accent is common to Swedish and the name (so far as I know) is more common in Sweden than Holland.

Also see: and . The Dutch form of "John" is "Jan" not "Jon". Carrionluggage 01:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Swedes and Norwegians.Skookum1 (talk) 15:07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Slaughter House Five
I remember this as being a major theme in Slaughter House V, does it deserve to be mentioned in here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.108.111 (talk) 22:49, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Title should be "Jon Jonson"
or Jonsson perhaps, if the Swedish form is followed; is it spelled "Yon Yonson" in Vonnegut? It looks very odd in the Y-Y form, it should be J-J as in the original languages, although the rendition/spelling can include "John Johnson" ("John" is actually used in Norwegian, at times, though borrowed as such from English'>Skookum1 (talk) 15:07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Recursive
Is it recursive, or just a loop? Certainly each story is contained in the previous one, but as there are no lines after the beginning of a new iteration, it is effectively a tail call optimization and would of course be expressed as a loop.

Yes, I'm a programmer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.96.153.48 (talk) 19:26, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

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Jan Jansen?
Never ever heard anyone pronounce it "Jan Jansen", in America, or anywhere else. Outside of this Wikipedia article, always "Yon Yonson" or "John Johnson". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 21:08, 15 June 2018 (UTC)