On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 02:14:35PM +1100, Thaths wrote: > https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/11/15/in-defense-of-puns/ > > Once upon a time—in 382 C.E., to be exact—Eve bit into an apple.
Very interesting, I will read the whole when I get a bit more time. But... [...] > But puns do not deserve such a bitter appellation. Despite its bad > reputation, punning is, in fact, among the highest displays of wit. Indeed, > puns point to the essence of all true wit—the ability to hold in the mind > two different ideas about the same thing at the same time. And the pun’s > primacy is demonstrated by its strategic use in the oldest sacred stories, > texts, and myths. [...] > The best puns have more to do with philosophy than with being funny. > Playing with words is playing with ideas, and a likeness between two > different terms suggests a likeness between their referents, too. Puns are > therefore not mere linguistic coincidences but evidence and expression of a > hidden connection—between mind and material, ideas and things, knowing and > nomenclature. [...] > Let the pun be the starting gun for this renaissance of true wit. Careful with that approach. For decades I was making puns of my buddies (is it how I should say it?) and now they all pretend to not know who I am. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
