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Now am wondering what a prescriptivist definition of 'pun' would be. Maybe we ASCII the Faldage you pointee?



A pun is a play on words in which two or more definitions of a word contribute to the meaning. Often on this board some of us start going crazy with some theme saying things like "I never sausage a situation" and "I'll be bacon a cake tomorrow." Generally the meat related meanings contribute nothing to the discourse. I, for one, would not call these puns.