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.

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you could read them, you’d realize they’re all just the same banal pun.

    The Germans have one sense of humor, spread across the entire nation.

  • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It does annoy me that the Devs built in a system to let you set languages but everyone just sets it to ‘duhhhhh I don’t know what language I’m speaking?!’

    But yeah I do like looking at the silly German words on pictures

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In all seriousness, the notion that Germans lack humor stems from the times when English and American people last got in contact with Germans in larger numbers: In and after WW2. Allied propaganda did paint the Germans as humorless (because they can’t be totally evil if they still have humor), and after the war, living in Germany was not exactly fun.

    In reality, Germans have a lot of humor, its style being similar to the British, but a lot of it is hard to translate or is based on experiences that non-Germans don’t share, like old German TV shows.

    • 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

    • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Ha ha ja just the other day Hanz made a funny joke he was going to arrive at 13:00 for his 13:00 meeting. We all laughed so hard. Naturlich he was perfectly on time arriving at 12:45, but we still laugh about it. When the meeting started he mentioned it and everyone was laughing and laughing for a good 30 sekunden or even a minute.

      That Hanz, such a jokester. And people say the German have no humor, ha that is a joke!

    • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      We have a frequent flyer patient at our hospital who has aphasia, a brain condition which causes nonsense words to come out instead of what the person was intending to say.

      We have a NO idea what this person is saying, but his tone of voice and delivery are completely normal even though the content of the words are meaningless. So I can confirm, this guy cracks jokes and is hilarious (he laughs at his own jokes and you can’t help but laugh with him.)

      The German memes feel similar. I don’t understand the words, but the intent is clear enough for me to enjoy seeing them.