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Codes of laughter
I have tried to observe certain persons erasing negative inputs, that could have disturbed or distressed them. Basically, the technique is to overwrite negative inputs with some positive inputs or by some other powerful means. One of the techniques that I have seen is the use of laughter, in its many forms. It can be derisive, wherein the bringer of bad inputs is belittled. Or it can be a laugh that belittles the negative idea. In short, laughter acts as some code input that can sort of select the negativity and sort of delete, quarantine or neutralise it.
Laughter is something that has definite connection to the quality of the language. For example, the more feudal type the language is, the more powerful is the derisive and destructive effect. For example, in terribly feudal languages like Tamil the effect is more powerful. For, it can literally move the targeted person/s defencelessly across the indicant word spectrum, to their doom. It may be observed that the power of mocking, even through literature, is very intense in languages that have feudal content.
This can be understood even when comparatively feudal languages like French is compared with English. Being made fun of can be a very terrible provocation in such languages, for it can send the targeted individuals tumbling down the indicant word array. Especially if the fun making is done on the higher ups by the lower guys. The effect can be quite provocative.
I think this was a technique which persons like Voltaire used to the hilt. However, in languages like English, even though it can be distressing, the huge quantum of provocation that it can cause is comparatively less. For, nothing much changes in the indicant word array.