| ▲ | tekno45 an hour ago |
| they think art is a niche hobby and not the basis of human culture. I wouldn't listen too intently to them. |
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| ▲ | TFNA an hour ago | parent [-] |
| Art is perennial and omnipresent in human societies, but the sort of art that operates through a language foreign to the aficionado’s own, and learning that language would be beneficial to appreciation of it, is obviously going to be a niche subset of art. |
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| ▲ | tekno45 an hour ago | parent [-] | | basic puns and rhyming are niche forms of art? | | |
| ▲ | Jtarii 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Puns and rhyming can generally be translated across languages. I don't think its controversial to say that its possible to get most of what a piece of art is trying to say through a translation. | |
| ▲ | estebank 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | If anything comedy is an excellent way of learning a language: the use of double and triple entendres helps to quickly get exposed to alternate meanings and misunderstandings of words. Comedy aimed at learners or multilinguals can also help, plenty of anglos who learned Spanish can relate to "feeling pregnant" early on :) |
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