Why Do We Laugh?

Originally posted by Suzianne
Hehehe, this is a good joke, but very German.

It doesn't translate well to English, though.

The joke turns on the English phrase "What are they doing?" in German directly translates to "What are they making?"

The joke is funny in German, but makes little sense in English with a direct translation, since we don't say "What are they making?" but "What are they doing?"

I know about that. So I thought maybe some German speaking English native speaker would come up with an anlogous joke in the English language.

Question we face, from time to time, involves choosing between the options of foolishly
attempting to cling or callously letting go or finding some tertium quid (a third way).

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Question we face, from time to time, involves choosing between the options of foolishly
attempting to cling or callously letting go or finding some tertium quid (a third way).

...and the laugh is exactly where?