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.

  • aidan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think the stereotype also comes from Germans often not catching onto sarcasm in English

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          Happens with americans too… they seem to completely miss sarcasm sometimes. Humour is very cultural (and often plays into things a native of the country would know but someone outside sometimes wouldn’t).

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            1 year ago

            That isn’t what I said though, which is that specifically I notice it with Germans.