German joke

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve heard it claimed German humour differs from English humour due to the grammar of the German language making it harder to hide the punchline, and so largely eliminating a lot of wordplay. The humour that remains is either cerebral (conceptual satire and such) or lowbrow slapstick.

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Native speaker of German here and I am not sure about that. German tends to put verbs in the end in a lot of sentences, but apart from that, it’s mostly possible to use English-like word orders in German too; I don’t think the difference is significant enough that it would change the entire style of humor.

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  • wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah, our humour and our everyday conversation is chock full of wordplay. Obviously it’s hard to detect the humour if one doesn’t speak the language. Humour is a nuanced thing anyways and also plays with cultural associations.

    For example if I were with friends in a pub and only ordered one beer and someone asked me why and I replied: “I muss fei spare” , the text itself isn’t funny
    (I have to save money).
    But it would be funny because I said it in a slight Swabian accent and because of the cultural association of Swabians being penny pinchers.
    It wouldnt be hilarious mind you, just a little funny to spice up conversation. How would one translate or even understand that?

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And the joke is someone from the other famously gay country is mocking us for being gay

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