Sense of Humor
Sense of Humor
Fenley Lamothe
11-29-13
English
What is a Sense of Humor? Is it something we all need in life? Is it a bad thing to have it or a good thing? According to the dictionary and resources of online a Sense of Humor is the ability to perceive humor or appreciate a joke. Well I say that definition is vague, not enough proof to help what does it really means. I’m proving that there is more to explain what a sense of humor is. In my own definition I say that a sense of humor is being able to express the humorous, but there is more to that. The etymology of sense of humor that I found is the trend of particular mental experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term develops from the humeral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors control human health and emotion. Western humor theory begins with Plato, who attributed to Socrates (as a semi-historical dialogue character) in the Philebus the view that the essence of the ridiculous is ignorance in the weak, which are thus unable to react when mocked. The negation of sense of humor is taking something serious of joke, like sarcasm. Not smiling in a joke. Late to the punch line, explaining the joke and telling the joke. The process of a sense humor is to find your funny bone. This is the first step and probably one you've already got the answer to. There are various types of humor, from the witty humor of Mark Twain, to the physical humor of The Three Stooges, to the dark humor of George Carlin. Know the difference between being funny and having a sense of humor. Both are important, and it's usually difficult to have one without the other—but it's not impossible. You do need to have a sense of humor to be funny. Having a sense of humor means being able to laugh at or at least see the humor in life's meaninglessness. You do not need to be funny to have a sense of
Fenley Lamothe
11-29-13
English
What is a Sense of Humor? Is it something we all need in life? Is it a bad thing to have it or a good thing? According to the dictionary and resources of online a Sense of Humor is the ability to perceive humor or appreciate a joke. Well I say that definition is vague, not enough proof to help what does it really means. I’m proving that there is more to explain what a sense of humor is. In my own definition I say that a sense of humor is being able to express the humorous, but there is more to that. The etymology of sense of humor that I found is the trend of particular mental experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term develops from the humeral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors control human health and emotion. Western humor theory begins with Plato, who attributed to Socrates (as a semi-historical dialogue character) in the Philebus the view that the essence of the ridiculous is ignorance in the weak, which are thus unable to react when mocked. The negation of sense of humor is taking something serious of joke, like sarcasm. Not smiling in a joke. Late to the punch line, explaining the joke and telling the joke. The process of a sense humor is to find your funny bone. This is the first step and probably one you've already got the answer to. There are various types of humor, from the witty humor of Mark Twain, to the physical humor of The Three Stooges, to the dark humor of George Carlin. Know the difference between being funny and having a sense of humor. Both are important, and it's usually difficult to have one without the other—but it's not impossible. You do need to have a sense of humor to be funny. Having a sense of humor means being able to laugh at or at least see the humor in life's meaninglessness. You do not need to be funny to have a sense of