You Probably Wouldn't Think this were #Humorous if You Thought about it; but---maybe if you saw it Peripherally ...
'That word' (and the high-larry-us pun that the SNORG TEES T-shirt uses, below-hyperlinked to the place where you can order yours) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Humorous” is built on ancient words that mean Body-Fluid (be Wet, Moist, Humid ... Ancient Medicine listed The Four Humors (of Blood, |Phlegm, |Choler, |Melancholy or Black |Bile); as their relative proportions affected one's State-of-Mind, 'Humor' came to mean Mood, Temporary Mindset, Amusement, Funniness, |Jocular Turn, and also produced the verb-sense of Indulging one's Fancy or -|Disposition).
#Humorously #Humorousness #Humor #Humored #Humoring #Humorist #Humorless #Humour #GoodHumored #GoodHumoured #GoodHumoredly #Humoral #Humorlessly #Humorlessness #Humourous #Humourously #Humourist #Humourless (etc. with 'our' instead of 'or')
The word “Humerus” (see its use on the shirt-image---hidden below so you aren't too busy rolling in laughter) is built on ancient words that mean Shoulder (though the actual Bone is the Upper |Arm that is Hangs from the Shoulder's Clavicle with the help of its Scapula (those're 'the little bone across the top' and 'the Shoulder-Blade on the back' (respectively) ... and little joints like the Glenoid & Acromion)).
#Humerous #Humeral #Humero-
Etymonline lists the different types of humor (as defined by Henry W. Fowler in the 1926-article "Modern English Usage"):
motive/aim | province | method/means | audience | |
HUMOR (in general, I guess) | Discovery | human nature | Observation | the sympathetic |
WIT | throwing light | Words & Ideas | Surprise | the intelligent |
SATIRE | Amendment | Morals & manners | Accentuation | the self-satisfied |
SARCASM | inflicting pain | faults & foibles | Inversion | Victim & Bystander |
INVECTIVE | Discredit | Misconduct | direct statement | the public |
IRONY | Exclusiveness | statement of facts | Mystification | an inner circle |
CYNICISM | self-justification | Morals | exposure of nakedness | the respectable |
SARDONIC | self-relief | Adversity | Pessimism | the self |
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