BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agoDo Sign Languages have puns?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down11
arrow-up1140arrow-down1message-squareDo Sign Languages have puns?BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareCaptainEffort@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down2·9 months agoDepends on what you mean by puns. As someone else pointed out, some signs in and of themselves are jokes, but there are also plenty of jokes in ASL in particular that don’t translate super well, so they’re really only funny in the language.
Depends on what you mean by puns. As someone else pointed out, some signs in and of themselves are jokes, but there are also plenty of jokes in ASL in particular that don’t translate super well, so they’re really only funny in the language.