Last week I touched on the humour of logic, mentioned as an aside in my piece about shared meaning assumptions in language. The British sense of humour has particular qualities which tell us something about the national character, British culture, and all the shared assumptions that culture represents, in which we submerge ourselves when we speak Englis…
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