Actually there is a rather interesting inverse relationship, related to the joke category. A lot of jokes depend on particular cultural stereoptypes and preconceptions, so the more languages you learn, the more likely you become to appreciate that a joke is actually only funny if you are particularily narrow-minded.
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others.
I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
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Actually there is a rather interesting inverse relationship, related to the joke category. A lot of jokes depend on particular cultural stereoptypes and preconceptions, so the more languages you learn, the more likely you become to appreciate that a joke is actually only funny if you are particularily narrow-minded.
No, appreciation is different from understanding. You can understand a joke without appreciating it.
Well that explains why I just understand half the jokes on this site ^^
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