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Scientists have discovered that some made-up words such as subvick, bollyze and quingel are far more amusing than others. This is because people find nonsense words with uncommon letter combinations more unexpected and humorous than those words with probable sequences of letters. 科学家发现诸如subvick, bollyze和quingel之类的混合词比其他词汇更加有趣。这是因为人们发现，不常用字母拼成的无意义词汇比正常词汇更令人惊喜和引人发笑。 A study, led by a team from the department of psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada, examined the theory that some nonsense words are funnier than others. The team used a computer programme to generate thousands of random nonsense words. 加拿大阿尔伯塔大学的心理系团队进行了一项实验，用于检查该理论，即无意义词汇是否比其他词汇更加引人发笑。该团队利用电脑程序生成了上千个随意的无意义词汇。 Any words that sounded the same as real words were removed from the test. Students were asked to compare two non-words and select the option they considered more humorous. 和正常词汇读音相同的无意义词汇会被删除。参与实验的学生被要求对比两个无意义词汇，并且选出他们认为更引人发笑的那个词。 In the second part, they were shown a single non-word and asked to rate how humorous they found it on a scale from one to 100. Researchers discovered that some words such as blabesoc were indeed funnier than other non-words, like anotain. | 
