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I didn't think it was a pun, just a play on words.
>There's a difference?
generally speaking, a pun is a specific type of word-play.
"To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms."
-Walter Redfern
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> generally speaking, a pun is a specific type of word-play.
I guess a bad joke is still a joke.
The poster formerly known as Hydra.
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One of my problems is that the ch in "chat" and the ch in "eschatological" aren't pronounced the same.
  Wouldst care to enumerate some of your other problems?
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One of my problems is that the ch in "chat" and the ch in "eschatological" aren't pronounced the same.
Wouldst care to enumerate some of your other problems?
Not particularly.
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>a square is a rectangle. -- eta >generally speaking, a pun is a specific type of word-play. -- tsu 
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