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title: "Pun"
description: "The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exp..."
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published: "2012-03-11T08:04:04+00:00"
modified: "2012-03-11T08:04:41+00:00"
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# Pun

> The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exp...

The **pun**, also called **paronomasia**, is a form of [word play](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_play) which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended [humorous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor) or [rhetorical](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric) effect.These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of [homophonic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone), [homographic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph), [metonymic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy), or [metaphorical](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor) language. A pun differs from a [malapropism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism) in that a malapropism uses an incorrect expression that alludes to another (usually correct) expression, but a pun uses a correct expression that alludes to another (sometimes correct but more often absurdly humorous) expression. [Henri Bergson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson) defined a pun as a sentence or utterance in which "two different sets of ideas are expressed, and we are confronted with only one series of words".Puns may be regarded as [in-jokes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-jokes) or [idiomatic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiomatic) constructions, given that their usage and meaning are entirely local to a particular language and its culture. For example, camping is intense (in tents).

Puns are used to create [humor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor) and sometimes require a large vocabulary to understand.

I think that puns are also used for satirizing disadvantages of human character.

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Source: [https://yvision.kz/post/pun-239181](https://yvision.kz/post/pun-239181)