Good points. Words do not mean the same thing to all people. “Funniness” is a quality arising in the mind of an individual. It is not in the material alone.
Yes, we add it to experience. And I think that how likely we are to add it, or to see it as offered as humor, is helped when we see the person as trying to do that.
Good points. Words do not mean the same thing to all people. “Funniness” is a quality arising in the mind of an individual. It is not in the material alone.
Yes, we add it to experience. And I think that how likely we are to add it, or to see it as offered as humor, is helped when we see the person as trying to do that.
Consider also humor that is either accidentally or intentionally hurtful.