Friday, January 26, 2018

Abiguity and Puns

My son LOVES puns! It's been creating puns since he was 4. Sometimes puns are funny because of ambiguity, which is what we talked about in class today.  When a message has more than one meaning, and we can understand that, the situation becomes humorous. Here's an example:


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