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⌈ Secret Post #4973 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've always enjoyed her humour more when it comes from the perspective of Elizabeth or Eleanor or Anne. Emma was at times painfully unfunny. The free indirect speaking style of narration she favours doesn't work for me when I don't think similarly to the character.

I think there are people who can't explain why they don't find it funny because they don't have the analytical skills to pick it apart, but they're not necessarily too stupid for the humour itself, which is pretty much "man is pompous","woman is silly" and variations of the same. I enjoy it, but it's not referencing anything you can't find in most comedy. It's certainly not inaccessible to a modern audience.

[(Anonymous)]

And sometimes the reason people can't explain why they don't find it funny is that they just...don't find it funny. There's nothing there to analyze, Austen just employed a type of humour that particular reader doesn't especially enjoy.

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I didn't say there weren't?

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nayrt


I'm pretty sure they were agreeing with you?

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[(Anonymous)]

This. Like humour is subjective, it's really not that complicated.

[(Anonymous)]

sometimes the reason people can't explain why they don't find it funny is that they just...don't find it funny. There's nothing there to analyze

NA - I disagree. I don't think anyone has to analyze why they respond to a thing the way they do, but I think there's always a reason. I disagree with the notion that there's nothing to analyze when it comes to our individual tastes, humors, motivations, and preferences. "I don't find it funny because I just don't" is never the whole of it. It's just the linoleum flooring; there's wood or concrete underneath, whether you give a shit it's there or not.

[(Anonymous)]

If people find a thing boring and unfunny, they're under no obligation to investigate why, especially if they're reading something for fun.

"Eh, i'm not loving this, I'm gonna put it down and read something else and not think about this again bc it doesn't interest me" is a perfectly valid response.

I've read Austen and liked some and disliked others, it's not that I don't understand the humour, it's that sometimes it just fails to land for me and I'd rather spend my energy finding something else to enjoy than interrogating myself as to why i didn't like that particular joke.