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Essay Summary of: What’s Funny to Him Is Funnier to Her (pp. 126-127)
The essay “What’s Funny to Him Is Funnier to Her”, by Anne Mcllroy (2005) in reality are cuts from newspaper article which she had written for ‘Globe and Mail’, and appeared on November 8, 2005 issue. It radically compares and contrast the humor of women and men. A cartoon about two birds is used in an experiment and explains that women uses more brain than men when responding to humor. The experiment compares its findings to gambling or snort crack cocaine, which concludes similar results. According to Rob Martin men likes more of visual and action based jokes while women likes anecdotes or stories. Also, men prefer to comment on each other, whereas women prefer to be polite and maintain the relationship says Dr.Martin. Daniela O’Neill states that among children boys are more forward to start a conversation than a girl by knock-knock jokes. According to Eliman Azim’s brain imaging research, both men and women has the same response to the humor as the same part of brain is active to a similar extent, except the prefrontal cortex and limbic system which were more active in women.
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Strunk Jr. & White (2000) in “The Elements of Style 4th Edition” stated that “All writers by the way they use the language, reveal something of their spirits, their habits, their capacities, and their biases. This is inevitable as well as enjoyable” (p.62). It means that, every writer has a unique tongue which reflects about themselves in their writing, like their habits, potential and biases. It is natural and lovable. Smilarly, A. Mcllroy (2005) in What’s Funny to Him Is Funnier to Her points out that: When women processes cartoons like this one they use more parts of their brain than men, a new study has found. But if reading the comics page is more work for women it also may be more fun (p.126). This quote says about the author’s formal style of writing with the use of anecdotes and some striking
The essay “What’s Funny to Him Is Funnier to Her”, by Anne Mcllroy (2005) in reality are cuts from newspaper article which she had written for ‘Globe and Mail’, and appeared on November 8, 2005 issue. It radically compares and contrast the humor of women and men. A cartoon about two birds is used in an experiment and explains that women uses more brain than men when responding to humor. The experiment compares its findings to gambling or snort crack cocaine, which concludes similar results. According to Rob Martin men likes more of visual and action based jokes while women likes anecdotes or stories. Also, men prefer to comment on each other, whereas women prefer to be polite and maintain the relationship says Dr.Martin. Daniela O’Neill states that among children boys are more forward to start a conversation than a girl by knock-knock jokes. According to Eliman Azim’s brain imaging research, both men and women has the same response to the humor as the same part of brain is active to a similar extent, except the prefrontal cortex and limbic system which were more active in women.
QUOTING
Strunk Jr. & White (2000) in “The Elements of Style 4th Edition” stated that “All writers by the way they use the language, reveal something of their spirits, their habits, their capacities, and their biases. This is inevitable as well as enjoyable” (p.62). It means that, every writer has a unique tongue which reflects about themselves in their writing, like their habits, potential and biases. It is natural and lovable. Smilarly, A. Mcllroy (2005) in What’s Funny to Him Is Funnier to Her points out that: When women processes cartoons like this one they use more parts of their brain than men, a new study has found. But if reading the comics page is more work for women it also may be more fun (p.126). This quote says about the author’s formal style of writing with the use of anecdotes and some striking