The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.
I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.
The British are so funny.
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.
When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.
The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amount of light, which may be why we have a similar sense of humour.