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SuperESL Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Pun
"The result of Stalin's economic policies in the 1930s was crash development - in more sense than one."
I am trying to play a pun on the word 'crash' here to refer both to Stalin's effort to promote rapid development (i.e. 'crash' meaning rapid/quick, as in 'a crash course') and the fact that they were a disastrous failure (i.e. they 'crashed'). Do you think most people will catch my meaning? Does the pun work?
Thank you.
I am trying to play a pun on the word 'crash' here to refer both to Stalin's effort to promote rapid development (i.e. 'crash' meaning rapid/quick, as in 'a crash course') and the fact that they were a disastrous failure (i.e. they 'crashed'). Do you think most people will catch my meaning? Does the pun work?
Thank you.
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I think you're OK if you immediately explain yourself. If you just let that lie there, it will come off coy.
- I think you're OK if you immediately explain yourself.
- If you just let that lie there, it will come off coy.
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I think you're OK if you immediately explain yourself. If you just let that lie there, it will come off coy.
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SuperESLDo you think most people will catch my meaning? Does the pun work?I don't think so. The sentence doesn't make sense.
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