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<blockquote data-quote="satellitedriver" data-source="post: 135042" data-attributes="member: 1664"><p>A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Bad puns are sometimes called "cheesy".</p><p></p><p>Walter Redfern (in Puns, Blackwell, London, 1984) succinctly said: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms".</p><p></p><p>In order to be able to pun effectively it is necessary that a language must include homonyms which may readily be misrepresented as synonyms.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Make some of that easy $,file a grieve and whoop some ass. No wonder so many upsers are sick and tired of "duh teamsters".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="satellitedriver, post: 135042, member: 1664"] A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Bad puns are sometimes called "cheesy". Walter Redfern (in Puns, Blackwell, London, 1984) succinctly said: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms". In order to be able to pun effectively it is necessary that a language must include homonyms which may readily be misrepresented as synonyms. Make some of that easy $,file a grieve and whoop some ass. No wonder so many upsers are sick and tired of "duh teamsters". [/QUOTE]
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