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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Laughs and Smiles




Laughs

Today, I am reading my notebook, which I have had since I was a university student in Burma. I found ten kinds of laugh. I took this note from a book but I don’t remember from which book it was. I am sorry.

The ten kinds of laugh that I found in my notebook and I would like to share with you are:
1) An old miser’s chuckle (or) A quiet laugh
2) A giggling school-girls’ laugh
3) A gloating laugh
4) An embraceable laugh
5) A simmering laugh
6) A heart laugh
7) A polite laugh
8) A weak-minded person’s laugh
9) A cynical laugh
10) A scale-ascending laugh

Smiles

In capitalcitysmiles site, there are three main types of smiles:
1) The Commissure Smile
2) The Cuspid Smile
3) The Complex Smile

Anyway, what is difference between laugh and smile?

Fundamentally, I think the big different thing is ‘voice’ or ‘making sound’ between laugh and smile. Roughly, a smile does not have voice but a laugh has. The other different matter between laugh and smile is – people can more feign when they smile than when they laugh.

I have read in a religious story that ‘however an animal is cunning, you can find it much easier than the meaning of a man (a human being)’s dishonest smile.’

What do you think?


Source: http://capitalcitysmiles.ca/

Picture: http://thesituationist.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/monkey_smile.jpg

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