In 2018, my Australian co-worker asked me, “Hey, how are you going?” My response—”I am taking a bus”—was met with a smirk. I had recently moved to Australia. Despite studying English for more than 20 years, it took me a while to familiarize myself with the Australian variety of the language.
‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English
