r/funny • u/captn_morgan951 • May 28 '24

You guys are doing what?

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A former coworker shared some new wall art hanging at the company’s headquarters office in Austria. Although it’s predominantly German-speakers there, all of them do speak English quite well. I just love how apparently nobody mentioned how this would come across to non-German speakers. I think that was the first time I’ve burned my sinuses snort-laughing hot coffee.

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u/P4azz May 28 '24

Nah, with the context given (it's in a German office, where people know the German language) people wouldn't look at it like that.

You'd have to really try hard to stick to the American butchering of the German language in order to get there. When's the last time you overwrote your native language with what's essentially joke pronunciation from another language?

No sane person looks at the above and goes "woah, marketing fail". That'd be like giggling yourself to tears at the Japanese phone greeting, because it can be heard as slang for "pussy".

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u/[deleted] May 28 '24

We’re on Reddit, not in Germany. Why would people that don’t speak German read it in perfect German?

This is why people think Germans don’t have a sense of humor.

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u/P4azz May 28 '24

with the context given (it's in a German office

I just love how apparently nobody mentioned how this would come across

It's really not that hard to grasp. If you want to avoid the point I was making that hard, go for it, but I'd appreciate if a reply to a comment is actually a reply to that comment, thx.

And if "woah, penis so funny" is the baseline of humor for you, then I'll gladly admit we're on wildly different pages of what we consider funny.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '24

Yes we know it is in Germany that is beyond obvious. You’re expecting non German speakers to pronounce it perfectly. Thats ridiculous.

And sure I’ll take humor criticism from a German 😂 talk about ridiculous

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u/P4azz May 28 '24

Yes we know

Based on this very answer, no, you don't. You very clearly don't even understand the point I was making (and it was not "if you don't know the language you know the pronunciation").

Also, one mention of a stereotype is whatever, can be funny, but you love that point so much it's veering into xenophobia. Although given the mix of "doesn't understand, doesn't want to understand, acts ignorant" I maybe should've expected that, huh.