Please explain this to my not native speaker brain
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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"Dad Jokes" are a specific kind of joke, which typically make people groan, because they're so terrible. See !dadjokes@lemmy.world, for example.
But his sentence could also mean that he tells jokes to his dad. She notices that and asks about it, therefore making a Dad Joke herself.
He doesn't get the Dad Joke, which exposes him as perhaps not being very good at the whole Dad Joke thing.
I like to tell (my) dad jokes
I like to tell my dad jokes to anybody willing to listen.
Does your father laugh at the jokes you tell him?
and then go home (you missed it)
The test is over.