Questions tagged [humor]
Questions about humorous expressions, jokes, puns, etc.
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Connotation of a sentence in a listening material from TPO
(Here for the original audio source (MP3 file). The part in question begins approximately at 2'18'')
This conversation is an excerpt from one listening material in a TPO (TOEFL Practice Online) test, ...
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Term for new or inappropriate phrases that appear when you remove the spaces between words?
I'm looking for a term, if it exists at all, that describes a new word or phrase that appears when you remove the spaces from a phrase.
Lots of websites have fallen into this trap, for example:
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What is the humor in "water's warm and deep" while relieving oneself?
The two men halted at the edge of the canal, hiked their tunics, then
fumbled with their loincloths. Soon two arcs were gurgling across the
filmy surface. “Hmm,” Xinemus said. “The water’s warm.” Even
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Examples of people that have really low name recogniton?
Not exactly sure how to phrase the title, but here's the sentence I'm asking about:
Our job? Somehow get XXXXX, (a candidate with less name recognition than _____ ) to the top of the polls.
I was ...
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