What's your favorite joke that doesn't translate to English very well?

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What's your favorite joke that doesn't translate to English very well? - Lemmy.World

Give me your wordplay and obscure culture references, I love them all.

Two divers meet. One say “Hi” the other says “where?!”

Two hunters meet. Both of them are dead.

Which language of origin?

German:

  • Joke: “Hi” is spoke like “Hai” German for shark. So when two divers meet and one says hi, the other thinks, where is the shark??

  • Joke: “to meet” is translated in german as treffen. Treffen can also the mean to hit. So the joke goes from a freindly meet up between hunters to both of them hitting eachother while on the hunt and dying.

  • That is so incredibly german, holy shit.