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Humor in Context
Humour is an interdisciplinary skill !
Intercutural
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In this video, Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, was discussing differences between American and British humor. For him, British humor is a lot about laughing at yourself. American Humor is slightly different in the way that when he tried make them laugh with British humor, they wouldn’t laugh. One day, his American neighbor asked him about his “nightmare travel experience he’d had.” So, his neighbor asked him “Who were you flying with?”
So, this is what he replied:
That they were all strangers. But apparently, his neighbor didn’t laugh. Of course, in American English “Who were you flying with?” means “Which airline did you take?”
Music: Yes, humor can enter the very special realms of music!!!
This song is so funny. Remember it’s supposed to be humorous:
“All the white folks hate the black folks and the black folks hate the white folks. To hate all but the right folks is an old established rule but during National Brotherhood week..."
Humor in physics
Do you know Shrodinger's cat?
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Erwin Schrodinger was a famous Austrian physicist. And to explain the problem of the electrons in Quantum Physics who happen to be at two places at the same time, he used a quite disturbing metaphor of cat being dead and alive at the same time.
His cat allegory has become a quite famous part of Quantum Mechanics.
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But the problem really came to a critical point when going to the Vet:
