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摘要

Reflecting recently on the overzealous censorship of the proceedings of a scientific conference by a prudish Al, we called for professional help to establish what it is about the sound of words like "flange" that makes them ripe for double entendre (7 November). Cometh the hour, cometh the man: psycholinguist Chris Westbury at the University of Alberta in Canada, co-author of such papers as "Telling the world's least funny jokes: On the quantification of humor as entropy" and "Wriggly, squiffy, lummox, and boobs: What makes some words funny?".