Recently a German friend of mine, Tanja, and an American friend, Patrick, happened to cross paths and I asked if they knew each other. "I know you," Tanja said, while Patrick blinked at her in surprise. "You're the one who told the joke nobody could understand."
Rewind a few months to my birthday party, where Patrick (who has some sort of claim to Scots-Irish background, or something) had everybody in stitches with his Scottish jokes, which involve plenty of dialogue related in a thick Scottish brogue.
Most of the listeners were Germans who, though they speak excellent English, were not quite up to the whole Scottish accent thing.
So Patrick told Scottish jokes and I stood there and listened and then translated what he said into "regular" English that the Germans present could understand.
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