• 2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.world
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    True humor transcends language barriers. If you have difficulty being funny in a different language, it means you’re relying too heavily upon puns.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I get confused when I dream in other languages. Like, I guess that’s my first language at the moment.

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      2 hours ago

      This has happened to me once or twice, and I always found it extremely bizarre in my dreams when my friends were all speaking ancient Latin lol

  • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    I had brain surgery and hand to relearn how to talk and express my self and it was not working at all for years until I started trying to learn Spanish again, and then I realized that was my first language when everything clicked.

  • TabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.social
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    Sometimes I will make jokes to my friends that are untranslatable to english, and giggle to myself about it, while all of them are confused lol… but I think im also relatively funny in english and my other non-native languages, which is fine enough :3

    • itsviolet@lemmy.worldOP
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      No, I’m fully Swiss, but I grew up in the Gulf and was educated entirely in English. I had a bunch of local Arab friends, so unlike most Westerners in the region, I learned Arabic.

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    The trick is to be equally unfunny in every language. Here’s how you do it:

    I hear mines hate being stepped on. Apparently it triggers them.

    Once you become proficient in the dark arts, barriers of language become mere opportunities to display your power.