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> Adding wit to a conversation makes it strictly better. Clearly there are many exceptions to the above assertion. The most common being when the main purpose
by jcoffland 9y ago
> Adding wit to a conversation makes it strictly better.
Clearly there are many exceptions to the above assertion. The most common being when the main purpose of the wit is not to entertain but to showcase the punner's cleverness.
- nostromo95 9y ago>The most common being when the main purpose of the wit is not to entertain but to showcase the punner's cleverness. Not to get bogged down by minutiae, but I'd argue that wit and ostentation are two separate things, and that it's certainly possible to practice one without the other. But sure, I'll concede that some puns are made pretentiously.
- samstave 9y agoYou seem bitter and boring, and I would not want to have conversations with someone who is so strict and boring and so set on their own supposed superiority that they shun the pun, to wit.