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Re: OT: national humor

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Friday, May 9, 2003, 16:37
>These jokes prove something about cultural relativity, but I'm not >sure what.
There have been whole books dedicated to humor. While I tend to see it as culturally relative, I'm brought up short by the fact that I myself love Chinese and Japanese humor, like most intellectual humor from the USA, Canada & the UK, but do not even smile thinly at most German, Spanish or French humor. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>