As with Epic Movie. The unrated version has Edward saying:"Jack Swallows? Sounds a little bit gay!"
In English, that's a perfectly alright joke, but in German it makes no sense at all. Because - considering you're an average stupid German teenager with just basic knowledge of English - you won't know what swallowing is. And you won't get that it's a sexual reference.
Annoys me so much that I couldn't even laugh a little bit despite me having read about it beforehand. Agh. I guess I'm finicky?
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Something on TV yesterday was making jokes about Germans not understanding/having jokes or something... I guess this is sort of related XD
Don't worry I know it's not true
I read that out sounding a bit like 'Jack slut'
But yeah of course, stereotypes are almost never true. Nobody where I live speaks in the finest English, and if they did, they'd get kicked to death by all the gangsta kids ^^;
Go to dict.cc and search for 'schlucken', there you can hear it because I think it's hard to describe phonetically.
My grandma always tells me how she hates Americans and loves Englishpeople because she THINKS they all sound like news announcers. Had to break the news to her, though. :D
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