I was watching a movie the other day when I heard the word funny in a less conventional way. If you're a beginner, I encourage you to keep reading. Here's what was happening when the word came up: After witnessing the death of a friend, some guy had to break the bad news to the deceased's girlfriend. When he approached her to tell her about the unfortunate news, she noticed a very different expression in his face and saw that something was wrong. So she said: Why do you look so funny?
If you're not used to that way of using the word funny, you must have found it weird for someone to look funny when he's about to tell such bad news. I mean, what's funny about saying someone has died? The thing is, in that case funny means weird, odd, something strange. It's not that he was making funny expressions or laughing in the most inappropriate moment. He looked funny because he looked different from the usual, a little bit odd. It's very common to hear many English speakers using the word funny as synonymous with weird. You'd better get used to it.
Here are some other examples: 1) you walk into a room and you feel a different and strange smell, so you say: what smells so funny? 2) you taste some different food for the first time and then you find it really weird, so you say: what's in it that tastes so funny? That's it for today guys. Take care!
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