I’m not saying it was nonsensical. I’m saying as a native English speaker I read the joke multiple times before I concluded the author was invoking the quintennial meaning of medium to stage a joke. I can see how non-native speakers would be flummoxed.
A medium is 1 a channel of communication (e.g., television, email), 2 a material used by artists (e.g., oil paint), or 3 a substance through which something travels, such as sound through air. It 4 also refers to an intermediate size between small and large, or 5 a person claiming to communicate with spirits
I’m not saying it was nonsensical. I’m saying as a native English speaker I read the joke multiple times before I concluded the author was invoking the quintennial meaning of medium to stage a joke. I can see how non-native speakers would be flummoxed.
A medium is 1 a channel of communication (e.g., television, email), 2 a material used by artists (e.g., oil paint), or 3 a substance through which something travels, such as sound through air. It 4 also refers to an intermediate size between small and large, or 5 a person claiming to communicate with spirits