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What’s a third culture?
kid born from immigrant parents that each immigrated from different countries.
True humor transcends language barriers. If you have difficulty being funny in a different language, it means you're relying too heavily upon puns.
Kein Problem, Habibi, just be yourself.
I’m not funny in any language ;-;
Now now, that's not fair. You're probably hilarious in Swahili, but just haven't found out yet.
Can confirm. Every swahilispeakinging person I know talks about how funny grranibal would be.
I get confused when I dream in other languages. Like, I guess that's my first language at the moment.
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
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.
Miss Worldwide
You should be at home in NYC, and can probably find other people like you
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
You’re Swiss-Saudi?
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.
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.
Valid.
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