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There are thousands of languages, hundreds of thousands of dialects, but everyone speaks laughter in pretty much the same way." Babies have the ability to laugh before they ever speak. Children who are born blind and deaf still retain the ability to laugh. [9] Provine argues that "Laughter is primitive, an unconscious vocalization."
Nervous laughter is considered analogous to a courtesy laugh, which may be rendered by more of a conscious effort in an attempt to move a situation along more quickly, especially when the comedian is pausing for laughter. Nervous laughter is a physical reaction to stress, tension, confusion, or anxiety.
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It was the sort of outcome that elicits a chuckle and a shaking of the head in disbelief. But chuckling is a healthy response, even when things seem bleak — especially then, in fact.
However, live audiences could not be relied upon to laugh at the correct moment. [3] Douglass noticed this problem, and decided to remedy the situation. [4] If a joke did not get the desired chuckle, Douglass inserted additional laughter. If the live audience chuckled too long, Douglass gradually muted the laughter.
One study analyzed sounds made by human babies and bonobos when tickled. It found that although the bonobo's laugh was a higher frequency, the laugh followed the same sonographic pattern as human babies and included similar facial expressions. Humans and chimpanzees share similar ticklish areas of the body such as the armpits and belly. [6]
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Thus their publication will earn for his name and his writings an even greater share of popularity than he enjoys at present. Whether they will bring him any enduring fame is quite another question, one highly problematical. While he lives and writes, giving us new matter over which to chuckle and laugh, his book will be read and enjoyed." [2]