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Nope, not in the majority's book - you need to pass a bar of topical cleverness in order to qualify as a pun. Though, anecdotally, I've seen the type of wordpl
by snaily 9y ago
Nope, not in the majority's book - you need to pass a bar of topical cleverness in order to qualify as a pun.
Though, anecdotally, I've seen the type of wordplay you demonstrate referred to as a pun among English speakers in South East Asia. Where do you hail from?
- dvanduzer 9y agoLos Angeles, descended from early 17th century Dutch colonists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I must admit to feigning confusion about the definition of puns; I was keying into the original commenter's complaint that the author was trying too hard on the pun front. So I quoted examples of what I thought were exemplary wordplay (i.e. not particularly forced puns).