“Stop” seems ideal, but it’s too late—they already did it. If your esophagus cooperates, you can mimic a human chuckle, or you can just steamroll through, ignoring the elephant now parked in your conversational foyer. Either way, having to deal at all with the demand that wordplay be acknowledged is probably the reason so many people think they hate puns.
Those people are wrong.
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I have always really like puns. I think they are a really clever way of using language and can be used in really creative ways. I learned Spanish from a man who loved puns. He could hardly go a conversation without slipping one in. His wit was one of the fastest I have ever seen. And it really helped me learn. The way he would joke in Spanish and English, switching between the two seamlessly really engaged my brain in a way that had never been done before. Puns might seem annoying and like low hanging fruit, but they can really be a good gauge of someone's grasp of a language. If you are able to make connections between certain words that really have nothing to do with them, it demonstrates that you know a lot about each word and the distance between the two. Hating play on words should really be PUNished harshly in my opinion.
First, I am so happy that this article ended up on this blog. It is interesting to of puns as a form of art. I had never really thought of rap music or rhyming in music as puns, but it is word play, and that is also what puns are. I agree with this article and with Cooper that puns are a puzzle, and the speed of which some people can put puns together is brilliant. I try my best to keep my word play game on a level where I can crack puns quickly, especially since I have a tendency to be slow when it comes to picking up jokes and sarcasm. Not only am I more aware of my vocabulary, but I have expanded it and makes me feel more engaged with language. It makes me sad that so many people think poorly of puns. I wish that more people would appreciate the ingenuity and creativity behind puns. Shakespeare did wonders with puns in his plays, and when listen to it, it truly is brilliant. I wish more people appreciated the complexity in language when it came to word play, and while puns are not as intellectual as Shakespeare they do not deserve a "booo!"
Second. I am mad at your pun Cooper, but not that mad, because like the article says, puns are loved as much as when they are great, as they are when they are horrible.
I love puns! I think that they are one of those forms of comedy that has never really taken off in the writing and preforming world enough but has found a small home on the internet in recent years and with cartoons. The witty nature and the intelligence needed to to pull of a good pun i think is amazing and takes as much if not more timing and skill then with regular comedic jokes. The writing of puns is something that i have always though to be super complicated and something that I as a dyslexic student have never quiet been able to master or even feel like I could properly attempt in order to make best of the situation. That being said I am glad that others feel this way about puns to and that they are not simply going by the way side because of a lacking popularity and they are still beign fought for.
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