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Is humor harder to translate than any other form of language?

For

Jokes depend on wordplay and culture.

Against

Good translation can still make humor understood.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • Humor is one of the hardest things to translate between languages usually.
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • Others are just un-translatable.
    RedditOriginal language: English

Against

  • Sometimes the joke works in both languages.
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • Most of the time, they just change it to another joke that fits the context.
    RedditOriginal language: English
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