Leroux: How would Germans be able to clarify, when they don't see the problem with it? ;) Frankly, I wouldn't even know what German humor is supossed to be. Even in Germany, some attempts at humor are funny and others are not, some people laugh about this stuff, others about that stuff. I guess it would take a foreigner to explain to Germans what their typical common humor is.
Treasure: Sorry for not seeing your reply earlier, but not all my reply notifications work today... Anyways, better late than never I guess... What I meant by "German" humour is a kind of humour that is typically German, and doesn't exist in other countries or if it does exist it isn't as prevalent. What usually comes to my mind when thinking of German humour is thus a humour similar to the British black one, or jokes based on wordplay, untranslatable thus to other languages (and this although other languages have wordplay jokes too). In case that is of any comfort to you, although I can usually (but not always) detect irony and veiled insults as being joking, I don't like this kind of humour, and personally whenever I use irony, I use it when I'm annoyed by something, that is not in humour, but in annoyance/anger...
like Leroux i am a bit puzzled that there is (or supposed to be) a specific kind of humour that is unique to Germany.
I'll have to google that :p
obviously there is all kinds of humour that is hard to grasp for foreigner as it is based on making fun of specific local customs, dialects etc. And just the casual misuse of the appropriate grammer can be quite funny as well.
but I would think that's not something that only exists in Germany.
