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LordGro Since: May, 2010

Nov 29th 2018 at 11:59:55 AM •••

I have removed this paragraph from the description:

British humour has been present in works that we still have access to today since there was British work that we still have access to today. That makes Beowulf, composed around 700 CE, the Ur-Example, and subsequently showing British humour as older than the concept of zero. Given that nowadays the concept and practice of British humour would solidly fall under meta-postmodernism, being as old as it is it could well have invented the stylistic wave of proto-meta-postmodernist-anti-nihilism, which sounds like bullshit and probably is.

The references to Beowulf are cryptic. Beowulf is not an inherently comic work. Maybe there is humour in it; in any case very few readers (if anyone) will get what is being referred to here. The reference is completely intransparent for everyone else. The reader is expected to take home that British Humour is very old; yet we don't get any proof for it, just an assertion.

Further problems with this paragraph:

It is confusingly written ("British humour has been present in works that we still have access to today since there was British work that we still have access to today")
There is no certainty about when Beowulf was composed. Estimates range from 700 CE up to c. 1000 CE.
Beowulf is, in any case, not the oldest work of Old English literature, nor of British literature
The concept of zero could actually be older than 700 CE

Edited by LordGro Let's just say and leave it at that. Hide / Show Replies

ThompsonHaddock9991 Since: Oct, 2016

Nov 17th 2019 at 2:12:20 PM •••

I feel that this article needs a massive clean-up. This article's insinuation that all Brits are nothing but constant sarcastic jokers is absolute bollocks. "British humour" is a spectrum. But honestly I wouldn't know where to start in regards to edits since the whole thing is written in a way that assumes everyone already knows what's being talked about.

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