I'll give you a very simple example I saw recently. I saw a dad joke in Spanish on social media and it gave me a chuckle. It was a comment to a lawyer's video and it translates to "can I study law if I'm a leftie?" It relies on the fact that law is also a word for "right".
replyAI won't be able to succinctly translate that joke and have it hit the same way. As an experiment I just fed that into ChatGPT, and it did explain the pun in 6 paragraphs with quotations and a bulleted list, but that kills the simplicity of the humor.
I once saw a political cartoon that said "No votar basura." It played on the homophony between 'votar' = "to vote" and 'botar' = "to throw out."
replyThat said, there are plenty of jokes in English. Stop me if you've heard this one...
It can't now. It will be able to in the future, when the translation actually becomes fluent for the user.
replyMy point is that a succinct and correct translation for the pun does not exist in the target language.
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