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From: smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial intelligence and laughter
Summary: I need a semantics checker...
Keywords: laughter, tears, empathy, crocodile tears, remorse
Message-ID: <5250@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 88 07:02:12 GMT
References: <448@soleil.UUCP> <1620@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <5220@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <41489@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er)
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In article <41489@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes:
>In article <5220@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu
>(Shannon Mann - I.S.er) writes:
>
>> The cause?  It was explained to me that they react that way because 
>> laughing is an excepted behavior while crying is not.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
>I think the teenage males consider crying the excepted behavior
>and laughing the accepted behavior.  But some of us take exception
>to accepted norms.
>
>--Barry Kort

Thanks, Barry.  Everyone please note my lack of care.