à ma mère
a mio padre
Neque satis ab ullo explicari puto
Quintilian Inst. Or.
I have had great difficulty in determining what ‘funny’ is.
Lt. Comm. Data, Star Trek—The Next Generation
Two people are laughing together, say at a joke. One of them has used certain somewhat unusual words and now they both break into a sort of bleating. That might appear very extraordinary to a visitor coming from quite a different environment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Preface to the second edition
Linguistic theories of humor (LTH) was my first book. The book was met with quite a bit of attention. It was reviewed in several important places, including Language, where it earned grudging praise from Joel Sherzer. It also earned a lot of citations, making it probably ...
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