On 16 Jun 2006, at 02:21, Bureaud wrote:
> Humor is NOT universal .... may be we should remember that .... ;-)
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> Annick
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>> There was also an article in the Guardian a while ago about why
>> the British don't think Germans have a sense of humor -- it has to
>> do with the difference between English and German and the
>> dependence on word play in English humor that the structure of
>> German can't translate. In other words, there is no such thing as
>> a German Monty Python. Does schadenfreude come close?
Sorry to derail, but as any fule kno, Monty Python did in fact record
two specials entirely in German, filmed in Bavaria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Fliegender_Zirkus
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Greg Turner
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