Pun is a play on words or paronomasia.
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Jackson = $$son: pun or topical reference
Alfred Bester's short story The Demolished Man (the original version serialized in Galaxy magazine in 1952, not the novel published in 1963) may have been the first instance of SMS-speak, featuring ...
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A word for when a word is used incorrectly (grammatically) but can still be parsed in a grammatically correct way?
Does such a word exist?
An example:
Do good.
Supposing that my intention in saying "Do good!" was actually "Do well (on your test)!", the sentence still parses correctly as "Do good (deeds)!"
I ...
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Is this sentence grammatically correct or punny (or both)?
I have a comment on this question where I refer to a list of three examples deemed 'valid'. I said: "I think the last valid example is not."
The sentence sounds kind of strange (I did that on ...
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Literal antonym to “Outspoken” [closed]
I'm working on a humorous project in which one character is called the Outspoken Mime.
The adjective "outspoken" means the mime in question is "free, bold, or unreserved in speech." On one side, ...
