Fear can be explained away in many ways, and this one I recently added to the collection. It is a play on the saying that:
Great inventions are not characterized by "Eureka", but instead by "Hmm, that's funny..."
It nudges you to look at reality differently, laughing when people try to scare you. Yes, words are spells, that is why they call it spelling. And yes, due to my proficiency in creating these acrosstics I consider myself somewhat of a spell wizard. But somehow I always seem to go for the light spells...