Humour its a funny old thing
By smuggeridge
@smuggeridge (2148)
January 30, 2007 8:29pm CST
what is your sense of humour? does it vary from country to country? I started a rather stupid discussion the other day that mylot was run by governments to spy on us all, a rather propostrous idea but i thought quite funny. Most american, Canadian, British, aussies etc seemed to get that it was a joke, but most of the people who don't speak English as their first language seemed to take it literally and told me i was stupid. Does sarcasm or silly humour like this cross borders? what can we do to make our friends in India laugh?
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@urbangirl (1456)
• Australia
31 Jan 07
Maybe sarcasm is harder to get across to people who's first language isn't English - and also sarcasm is harder on the net when people don't know you well enough to know you must be joking.
