As you all know, there are certain ideas, concepts and things that exist in one culture but not another. The following are a few of the many failed attempts to explain American things to German people.
Professor: What is a"bean-bag chair"?
Ben: Its basically a trash bag filled little plastic beans....
Prof: Huh? Thats sounds horrible..why would you all sit on that?
Ben:...uh....Your right that does sound bad....but its not!
Me: Its a running gag we have.
Anna: 0_o? What?
Me: Running means continuous. And gag is another name for a joke. So its a continuous joke.
Anna: But doesn't Gag mean someone is choking? Why would you use it for the word "joke"?
Me.....Yeah....Nevermind.
Kat: She was sassy today! lol
Grammar Prof: Sassy?
Kat: hum........(Several thousands adjectives and examples later)
Prof: I still don't understand
Kat: Yea me neither....
(Yeah, you try to come up a concrete definition for that)
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