WillFord27@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoLemmy disproves the stereotype that Germans lack a sense of humormessage-squaremessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down134file-text
arrow-up1251arrow-down1message-squareLemmy disproves the stereotype that Germans lack a sense of humorWillFord27@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square45fedilinkfile-text
A solid 30% of posts in my feed are German memes. I don’t understand the language, but I love the memes that I can’t read.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoI think the stereotype also comes from Germans often not catching onto sarcasm in English
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·1 year agoWhy should we? It’s inefficient. ;-)
minus-squarerob64@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoWhich is a pitfall for anyone conversing in a language that isn’t their first, I’d say.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agoIt can be, but 90% of the people I interact with are non-native English speakers and it definitely feels a bit more common for Germans fluent in English to be bad at getting jokes.
I think the stereotype also comes from Germans often not catching onto sarcasm in English
Why should we? It’s inefficient. ;-)
Which is a pitfall for anyone conversing in a language that isn’t their first, I’d say.
It can be, but 90% of the people I interact with are non-native English speakers and it definitely feels a bit more common for Germans fluent in English to be bad at getting jokes.