Sunday, January 20, 2013

To Pun or Not to Pun

1/20/13.

"The late William Safire, the New York Times's long-time language writer, wrote in 2005 that a pun 'is to wordplay what dominatrix sex is to foreplay - a stinging whip that elicits groans of guilty pleasure'".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21011778

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