• caboose2006@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn’t understand half of them

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        1 day ago

        The way I see it:

        On English lemmy there are countless situations in which people fail to pick up on jokes/wordplay. I imagine the same happens quite often in any media in any language.

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      Probably because a lot or them (especially _iel) use literal letteral translations, nobody in their right mind would use in everyday conversations. Like in this post with “michmichs”.

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        2 days ago

        Or a labotomy, but I prefer the way she is. Guess we’ll just have to “huh” together for a little while longer.