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  • wieson@feddit.orgtoMemes@sopuli.xyzGerman joke
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    16 days 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?










  • Sidenote: whitewashing comes from lime washing houses.

    The meaning is: Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone’s reputation.