• @fireweed@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    510 months ago

    If it’s a joke about Japanese conjugation, but that’s not how Japanese conjugation works, is it actually a joke about Japanese conjugation?

    If someone tried to make a joke about English conjugation that hinged on the past-tense of “to run” being “ron” instead of “ran,” would that even qualify as a joke? “He has such a sweet tooth, the moment his diet ended he didn’t ‘ron’ to the store, he ‘macaron’ to the store!” makes no sense. That’s what the tiramisu meme reads like, except it also misspells tiramisu, so the English joke would actually be more like, “he has such a sweet tooth, the moment his diet ended he didn’t ‘ron’ to the store, he ‘ice cron’ [misspelling of ice cream] to the store!” which makes even less sense.

    • ShustOne
      link
      fedilink
      11
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      that hinged on the past-tense of “to run” being “ron” instead of “ran,” would that even qualify as a joke?

      Yes. There are jokes like this all over the place. Example: Job -> Has Job, Jobn’t -> Doesn’t have Job. This is the exact same style. You just want to be pedantic.

    • Dr. Wesker
      link
      English
      810 months ago

      Yeah, you’re definitely overthinking it.