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I think this old joke was created in Stalin labor camps (GULAG). At least I heard it in Leningrad after release of the inmates in the 50s after the death of Stalin.<br><br>Hayim Sheynin<br><br><b><i>Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling@sil.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <!-- Network content --> <div id="ygrp-text"> <div> <!-- Network content --> </div><div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">John,<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color:
black;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Good analysis!<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I hope one day we don’t have to communicate with acronyms like:<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">BWL = bursting with laughter<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">FOFL = falling on the floor laughing<o></o></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">LMSO = laughing my socks off<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">LOL = laugh out loud <o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">LSHTTARDML = laughing so hard that tears are running down my leg<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">That reminds me of a joke: <o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black"
face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">A new prisoner joins the group of other prisoners who sit in a circle in the evening and obviously have a good time.<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">One of them shouts “12”, everybody laughs. Another shouts, all men guffaw. One shouts 112, they all slap their thighs.<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">The new prisoner wonders what is happening and asks his neighbor in the circle why they all laugh when someone calls out a number.<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">The other guy says: “We are telling jokes and have given a
number to each joke. As we have already heard all of these jokes, it is enough just to call out the number.” The new prisoner thinks “That is easy, I can do that myself.” So he shouts “71.” Noone laughs.<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">So he turns to his neighbour asking “Why does noone laugh?” His neighbour answers: “one has to know how to tell jokes.”<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I wonder what kind of “laughter” (smile) this provokes with you. I hope I havn’t spoilt the joke by the way I told it.<o></o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o> </o></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fritz<o></o></span></font></div> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg"> <div id="ygrp-msg"> <div id="ygrp-text"> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fritz,<br> <br> I would say the English vocabulary describing laughing has about 2 or 3 <br> levels of intensity with 'laugh' itself describing the 'norm':<br> <br> Describing a restrained laugh: chortle, chuckle, crease up, giggle, <br> snicker, snigger, titter,<br> Norm: laugh, bubble/cackle with laughter<br> Describing an unrestrained laugh: guffaw, <br> hoot/howl/roar/<wbr>scream/shake/<wbr>shriek/snort with laughter<br> Completely uncontrolled laughter: fall about/ split one's sides/ have <br> hysterics/ piss oneself laughing.<br> <br>
The pattern seems to be the more unrestrained the laughing, the more <br> unrestrained the descriptive vocabulary. :-) I think the terms 'giggle' <br> and 'titter' would typically have female agents and 'guffaw' would <br> typically have a male agent, but I don't think the other expressions <br> have this restriction.<br> <br> John Roberts<br> <br> -- <br> ************<wbr>********<br> John R Roberts<br> SIL International Linguistics Consultant<br> <a href="mailto:dr_john_roberts%40sil.org">dr_john_roberts@<wbr>sil.org</a><br> ************<wbr>********<o></o></span></font></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="white" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: white;"></span></font></div></div> <!--End group email --></div></div><div></div> </div> <!--End group email --> </blockquote><br><p>
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