{"id":48459,"date":"2020-08-28T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=48459"},"modified":"2020-09-11T17:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:15:40","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-laughter-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/08\/28\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-laughter-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Laughter haters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between <\/span>1532 and 1564 the French physician Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais, initially using the anagrammatic pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier, published a scurrilous five-volume novel <\/span>La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel<\/span><\/i>, in which he introduced many new words of his own coinage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last week<\/span><\/a> I discussed the origin of the word \u201claughter\u201d, from Greek and Latin words meaning to shout or resound. The Greek word for laughter was <\/span>\u03b3\u03ad\u03bb\u03c9\u03c2, from which come a range of gelastic words, all found in the <\/span>Oxford English Dictionary<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>OED<\/span><\/i>). They include gelasin, a dimple in the cheeks; geloscopy, observation of people\u2019s characters from the nature of their laughter; gelotometer, a gauge for measuring laughter; gelastic, serving the function of laughter or risible; and gelastics, remedies that act by eliciting laughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> does not include other gelastic terms, such as <\/span>gelastic seizures<\/span><\/a> or <\/span>gelastic syncope<\/span><\/a>, nor <\/span>gelotophobia<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> fear of being laughed at, <\/span>gelotophilia<\/span><\/a>, joy at being laughed at, <\/span>katagelasticism<\/span><\/a>, joy in laughing at others, and gelasmus, spasmodic laughter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it does include three other derivatives, citing an essay by the novelist and poet George Meredith (1828\u20131909) as their earliest source: hypergelast, agelast, and misogelastic, by which Meredith described people who are all, in different ways, inimical to comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hypergelasts are people who laugh at everything; Meredith described them as \u201cthe excessive laughers, ever laughing, who are as clappers of a bell, that may be rung by a breeze, a grimace; who are so loosely put together that a wink will shake them.\u201d In so doing they show themselves incapable of understanding what is truly comic in comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

An agelast is a person who never laughs or has no sense of humour. Meredith described such people as \u201cnon-laughers\u2014men who are in that respect as dead bodies, which, if you prick them, do not bleed.\u201d He coined the word from the French word ag\u00e9laste, one of the words that Rabelais had introduced in his novel. Rabelais took it from the Greek word \u1f00\u03b3\u03ad\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, grave or gloomy. Its Latin equivalent, agelastus, was used to describe the orator Marcus Licinius Crassus, as attested by Pliny the Elder in his <\/span>Naturalis Historia<\/span><\/i> (Book 7, Chapter 19): \u201c\u2026ferunt Crassum, avum Crassi in Parthis interempti, numquam risisse, ob id Agelastum vocatum\u201d (Crassus, the grandfather of [the triumvir<\/span> Marcus Licinius] Crassus, who fell in Parthia, never laughed, and was therefore called Agelastus [by the satirist Gaius Licilius]). Heraclitus used the word to describe the Apollonian Sybil and it was also the name given to a stone at Eleusis, \u1f21 \u03c0\u03ad\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1 \u1f00\u03b3\u03ad\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1, on which the goddess Demeter supposedly sat.<\/span><\/p>\n

One step beyond the agelast lies the misogelast, who not only has no capacity for laughter, but positively hates it. The prefix miso- is from the Greek \u03bc\u1fd6\u03c3\u03bf\u03c2, hatred, as in misanthropy, misogyny, misology, misoneism, and misotheism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although only the adjectival form, misogelastic, is attested in the <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i>, quoting Meredith, instances of the noun can be <\/span>found<\/span><\/a>. He who is laughter-hating, says Meredith, \u201csoon learns to dignify his dislike as an objection in morality\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Puritans were misogelasts. On 2 September 1642, they <\/span>ordered<\/span><\/a> the indefinite closure of all London theatres, referring to \u201cSeasons of Humiliation\u201d and \u201cSpectacles of Pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious Mirth and Levity\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabelais hated agelasts, who reacted adversely to his brand of satirical humour, accusing him of heresy and impiety: \u201cla calumnie de certains canibales, misanthropes, ag\u00e9lastes, avoyt tant contre moy est\u00e9 atroce et desraisonn\u00e9e, quelle avoyt vaincu ma patience: et plus n\u2019estoys deliber\u00e9 en escripre une iota\u201d (the calumny of certain cannibals, misanthropists, and agelasts had been so atrocious and unreasonable that it destroyed my patience and I decided not to write another jot). Elsewhere he described them as \u201cmangeurs de serpents\u201d, snake eaters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabelais is remembered and his works have survived; his critics are long forgotten. It is a mistake to give in to the intemperate demands of the agelasts and misogelasts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Competing interests:<\/strong> None declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This week’s interesting integer: 289<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>289 is a semiprime number, since it has two prime factors; in this case the two factors are identical (17); it is therefore also a prime power of a prime number, 172<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>289 is a Sophie Germain semiprime, since (2 \u00d7 289) + 1 is also a semiprime, 579 = 3 \u00d7 193 (see <\/span>Interesting Integer 259<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>Because 289 is the square of a prime number, it is also a powerful number, one that is divisible by the squares of each of its prime factors.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong><\/b>The divisors of 289 are 1, 17, and 289, which sum to 307, another prime number.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong><\/b>289 is an emirpimes, since its reversal is also a semiprime: 982 = 2 \u00d7 491.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>\u00a0Antiharmonic numbers<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> The divisors of 289 are 1, 17, and 289; their sum is 307<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> The divisors of 578 (twice 289) are 1, 2, 17, 34, 289, and 578; their sum is 921<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> The sum of the divisors of 289 divides the sum of the divisors of 578 exactly; that makes 289 an antiharmonic number<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>Brilliant numbers<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> Brilliant numbers are numbers that have two prime factors, each with the same number of digits; squares of prime numbers, like 289, are all brilliant numbers; brilliant numbers have uses in cryptography.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>Friedman numbers<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> Friedman numbers are numbers that can be expressed in terms of their digits, using arithmetic operations and concatenation.<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> 289 = (9 + 8)2<\/sup>; it is the ninth Friedman number.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>289 is a lucky number; I discussed how these numbers are derived at <\/span>Interesting integer 261<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>Pythagorean triples<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> 289 is the hypotenuse of the primitive right-angled triangle with sides 64, 225, and 289.<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> it is the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle with sides 136, 255, and 289<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> it is the short arm of the right-angled triangle 289, 2448, and 2465.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>289 is the sum of:<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> 2 consecutive integers: 144 + 145<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> 17 consecutive integers: 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 + 25<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> the first 17 consecutive odd numbers: 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 + 17 + 19 + 21 + 23 + 25 + 27 + 29 + 31 + 33<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> 2 consecutive triangular numbers: T16<\/sub> + T17<\/sub> = 136 + 153<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> three consecutive non-primes: 95 + 96 + 98<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> six consecutive non-primes: 45 + 46 + 48 + 49 + 50 + 51<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> 12 consecutive non-primes: 16 + 18 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 30 + 32<\/span>
\n\u25cb<\/span> 4 fourth powers: 14<\/sup> + 24<\/sup> + 24<\/sup> + 44<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/b>289 is a centred octagonal number, having the form (2n + 1)2<\/sup>, or 4n2<\/sup> + 4n + 1, where n = 8<\/span><\/p>\n

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