Good luck trying to ban that, the Chinese seem to love puns. It will be probably as successful as smoking bans, or getting people to follow traffic rules. Howe

Good luck trying to ban that, the Chinese seem to love puns. It will be probably as successful as smoking bans, or getting people to follow traffic rules. However it looks to me that this has been blown out of proportion. Just guessing from the quotes they gave, they want to stop sloppy use of language in media, so kids don't pick up the wrong phrases. Imagine a news anchor saying "for all intensive purposes", or someone in a medical show talking about "old-timers' disease" or "high pertention". If it's clearly a joke, it's one thing, but if it's ignorance or sloppyness, then I'm sure its frowned upon here too.