On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, J.C. Roberts wrote: > My article was just a humorous retelling of the very typical problems > seen by people traveling. The trouble with humor is it can make no > sense across language or cultural barriers. I like to think the world > is a better place when we can laugh, but unfortunately, due to cultural > and language differences, some people will not understand or appreciate > all of the jokes. > > If you asked me to understand a language other than English, I would > fail miserably, but if you asked me to understand jokes in another > language or from another culture, I would fail even worse. You would > have to explain the jokes to me, and even then I might not get them due > to lack of experience.
I don't think language was a barrier. He can write in English, unlike me, very well. Anyway, I laughed a lot.
