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The puns in this thread are a great example of why people hate puns. Also a lot of them are spoonerisms and not puns, which will get you ejected from a pun cont
by heckanoobs 8y ago
The puns in this thread are a great example of why people hate puns. Also a lot of them are spoonerisms and not puns, which will get you ejected from a pun contest
- vram22 8y ago>Also a lot of them are spoonerisms and not puns, which will get you ejected from a pun contest You struck a blushing crow.
- d0lph 8y agoIt seems like a spoonerism is unintentional. I feel like a pun for most people means word play. Spoonerism. a verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words, often to humorous effect, as in the sentence you have hissed the mystery lectures, accidentally spoken instead of the intended sentence you have missed the history lectures.
- heckanoobs 8y agoYeah I personally use the concepts interchangeably but if you go to the pun competitions in the bay area they will disqualify spoonerisms in the general sense which includes any partial word substitutions like "punderdome"
- bradknowles 8y agoThere are those of us for whom Spoonerisms are a legit speech impediment. It rarely happens to me anymore, but rare != never.