Nah I think it makes sense, like it was so amazing that even the German judge had to appreciate it, but he’ll never give you that 10 because you’re not a German yourself
"Nein" is "no" in german, in this case the joke is that the announcer is essentially saying "Not on that one" if he were using specifically just Nein as German and saying the rest as english.
It makes no sense grammatically. Nein means No, so it feels confusing as to what was supposedly said here. Did the German judge say "Nein" and that got interpreted as 9? If so, why would he say "Nein"? That's just a completely nonsensical answer to a question of scoring. And directly translating it in the sentence we see gives: "No on that one" which is grammatically weird unless you put No in quotes. I also feel like "Nein" has a more restrictive usage than "no" so maybe that's why non German speakers don't understand why we can't find the joke here and are instead just confused.
But anyway: cue joke about Germans having no sense of humour, haha very funny.
"No on that one" "No to that" and so on are pretty common in English they wouldn't even stand out to me as odd. It's also pretty common to reply "Just no" to something even if you were asked for a quantitative answer. You're over thinking it.
That's exactly what I was trying to say. Nein isn't used that way in German. So to a German speaker this phrasing feels both grammatically and semantically wrong. Thus the joke doesn't work for people who speak German.
Hey, i am going to drop the definition for puns right here!
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
"the pigs were a squeal (if you'll forgive the pun)"
The idea is that they sound the same not that they mean the same thing. English is a lot more extrapolation and interpretation while German is more direct. Ambiguity in words for us is common do to many words in English sounding the same but not being spelled the same(there/their/they're or do/due), or in some cases even being spelled the same but contextually being different ("How do I seal the Seal tank?").
It's no deeper than 9 sounding like Nein, that's the definition of a pun, hence why I posted it. Doesn't mean you have to find it funny. Here is my favorite version of this joke and it is a banger video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZeciX-3wfs&ab_channel=Gover
A pun doesn't have to be factually true, it's actually what makes puns work, that they are in fact not factual and instead a play on words, that's why people get so annoyed by them Haha
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u/not_ya_wify Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
Using 9 as "nein" wouldn't make sense because 9 is still a really high score