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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn't understand half of them

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, ich_iel is confusing for native speakers as well.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The way I see it:

On English lemmy there are countless situations in which people fail to pick up on jokes/wordplay. I imagine the same happens quite often in any media in any language.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

...skill issue?

I presume your wife just needs more literalism and brain worms / absurdism

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Or a labotomy, but I prefer the way she is. Guess we'll just have to "huh" together for a little while longer.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Probably because a lot or them (especially _iel) use ~~literal~~ letteral translations, nobody in their right mind would use in everyday conversations. Like in this post with "michmichs".

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