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January 22, 2006
Really? Us?
From the NYT.
Post-Soviet Russians share a sense of the absurd with the British, who
more than any people developed the art of humor, said Victor Raskin, a
linguistics professor at Purdue and a leading humor researcher. Unlike
the Japanese, the British and the Russians have few cultural taboos
that make subjects unavailable for humor, he said.
Do they mean us?
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