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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Iranians get that biting sarcasm and wit from the Farsi language, which is remarkably similar to English. We all think in language, and when we do, it literally shapes our brains.

Farsi is an Indo-European language. This means that the Iranian sense of humor is going to be far more similar to our own than that of an Arabic or Vietnamese speaker. We don't even need a translator to laugh at their visual humor, and Persians have been satirists for literally millennia.

I don't think our imperial managers ever even considered this.

Pietro Wislon's avatar

Hollywood move over!

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