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minus-squarenagaram@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·11 days agoIts funny to me when a joke is literally translated so we miss the pun. And when the pun is explained and then the joke is retold in the native language, I often still don’t thinknits funny. Terrible that comedy is often hard to translate.
minus-squareStarvingMartist@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 days agoThat’s the difficulty of localization
minus-squareraman_klogius@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 days agoJust like how the Torah was full of puns that were lost in translation into the old testament
Its funny to me when a joke is literally translated so we miss the pun.
And when the pun is explained and then the joke is retold in the native language, I often still don’t thinknits funny.
Terrible that comedy is often hard to translate.
That’s the difficulty of localization
Just like how the Torah was full of puns that were lost in translation into the old testament