“Puns are threatening because puns reveal the arbitrariness of meaning, and the layers of nuance that can be packed onto a single word,”This all sounds a bit dramatic to me. A simpler hypothesis might be that most puns are lazy attempts at humor.
“Puns are threatening because puns reveal the arbitrariness of meaning, and the layers of nuance that can be packed onto a single word,”This all sounds a bit dramatic to me. A simpler hypothesis might be that most puns are lazy attempts at humor.
