Why is a sense of humour so important for the British?

By the end of this class, please answer this question. Mgu.joff.jp 222 words by Saturday 23:59:59

World-play - allusion, euphemism Sexual suggestiveness Sense of the ridiculousness Jokes are silly but you have to laugh The laugh that laughs at itself

 she is saying? Friday 22nd April, 03:17 PM JST

Japan protests over IHT Snow White cartoon about nuclear crisis
Friday 22nd April, 03:17 PM JST NEW YORK Japans Consulate General in New York lodged a protest with New York Times Co on Thursday for publishing a cartoon in which Snow White, carrying a newspaper with the headline Japan nuclear radiation, asks an old woman offering an apple if she comes from Japan. The consulate said that since the cartoon refers to a story in Grimms Fairy Tales in which Snow White falls into a stupor after biting a poisoned apple, it may stir up what the consulate called unfounded anxieties over the safety of foods from Japan. The cartoon was carried on the editorial page of the International Herald Tribune, which is owned by the New York Times, in its Thursday edition. In the cartoon Snow White looks skeptically at the apple through a magnifying glass and says to the old woman, who is dressed like a witch, Wait a minute! Do you come from Japan? The cartoon was credited to Luojie of the English-language China Daily. It was not immediately known whether it appeared first in the Chinese paper before being reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. Deputy Consul General Yasuhisa Kawamura said consumers do not have to worry about the safety of foods from Japan because they have cleared adequate radiation checks both in Japan and the United States. The newspaper publisher responded that it took the protest seriously, according to the Consulate General.

Differences
What is the difference between laughter, humour, wit? Is British humour just different from the humour of other countries?


You can tell Im British because... I live in the past I dont care what people think Im a different person when the suns out Im not bothered about a bit of dust I never refuse a drink I dont speak a foreign language Im lost without my dog I wouldnt live anywhere else

What is laughter?
Laughter is evolutionary. It helps to make fun of those in power To bring down their arrogance It is to ridicule Self-deprecating humour

Allusion
Allusion is the noun form of the English verb to allude. Allude comes from Latin ad- plus ludere meaning to play.

Quotes
THOMAS HOBBES: THOMAS HOBBES Laughter is 'the sudden glory arising from the sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others.' (Leviathan, 1651)

WILLIAM HAZLITT: WILLIAM HAZLITT 'The essence of the laughable is the incongruous, the disconnecting one idea from another, or the jostling of one feeling against another.' (Lecturers on the Comic Writers, Etc. of Great Britain, 1819)

SIGMUND FREUD: SIGMUND FREUD Laughter arises from 'the release of previously existing static energy.' (Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, 1905) (Nilsen andamp; Nilsen 185)

METONYMY
Metonymy occurs when something is named for a quality that is in some way associated with the item. In the days of CB radios, people often chose handles that were descriptive of their physical characteristics or their hobbies Today with e-mail and the Internet some people choose nicknames that are metonymous.

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OXYMORON
Oxymoron comes from two Greek words oxys meaning sharp and moros meaning foolish or dull. This paradox or contradiction can be seen in such expressions as Icy-Hot (an arthritis medicine), Cool Fire (a line of shoes), and Soft Brick (a floor covering). An article in People Magazine (March 3, 1986) about Warren S. Blumenfeld, who brought oxymorons to the attention of the general public, contains fourteen oxymorons:

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Samuel Beckett, Watt

Of all the laughs that strictly speaking are not laughs, but modes of ululation, only three I think need detain us, I mean the bitter, the hollow and the mirthless. They correspond to successive how shall I say successive suc successive excoriations of the understanding, and the passage from the one to the other is the passage from the lesser to the greater, from the lower to the higher, from the outer to the inner, from the gross to the fine, from the matter to the form. The laugh that now is mirthless once was hollow, the laugh that once was hollow once was bitter. And the laugh that once was bitter? Eyewater, Mr. Watt, eyewater. But do not let us waste our time with that. . . . The bitter, the hollow andHaw! Haw! the mirthless. The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snoutHaw!so. It is the laugh of laughs, the risus purus, the laugh laughing at the laugh, the beholding, the saluting of the highest joke, in a word the laugh that laughssilence pleaseat that which is unhappy. Ululate ; . dianoetic - logical rather than intuitive thought processes; intellectual activity.

the risus purus, the highest laugh.

Simon Critchley For me, it is this smile - deriding the having and the not having, the pleasure and the pain, the sublimity and suffering of the human situation - that is the essence of humour. This is the risus purus, the highest laugh, the laugh that laughs at the laugh, that laughs at that which is unhappy, the mirthless laugh of the epigraph to this book. Yet, this smile does not bring unhappiness, but rather elevation and liberation, the lucidity of consolation. This is why, melancholy animals that we are, human beings are also the most cheerful. We smile and find ourselves ridiculous. Our wretchedness is our greatness.

 there is something melancholic at the heart of humour structure of melancholia and the structure of humour are the same structure. Freud Melancholia is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.

Freud
Later Freud, the essence of humour is the ability to look at myself and find myself ridiculous.

 pathology of humour is the same pathology as that of melancholia or depression BUT humour can transform that experience of wretchedness into something elevating, and liberating people find themselves ridiculous but can rise above the wretchedness It is normal to say about humour that it is good to laugh at yourself and not good to laugh at others - that is the ethical headline of the book. That's the place where I begin: everybody's an expert when it comes to humour. What humour feeds off is a tacit knowledge, an implicit knowledge of the social world that we have.

vocabulary
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