Puns

[nq:1]Are there rules for the writing of puns? For example, if I was playing on the words pause, clause, paws, ... "the cat demanded a claws paws?" the correct way - correct when punning, that is? I would use the former.[/nq]
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

[nq:1]Are there rules for the writing of puns? For example, if I was playing on the words pause, clause, paws, ... as a pun? Or is "the cat demanded a claws paws?" the correct way - correct when punning, that is?[/nq]
The only "rule" is to give the reader the best chance of "getting" the pun, and it's difficult in your example. If you write "... a pause clause", the reader familiar with legal

[nq:2]Are there rules for the writing of puns? For example, ... paws?" the correct way - correct when punning, that is?[/nq]
[nq:1]The only "rule" is to give the reader the best chance of "getting" the pun, and it's difficult in your ... terms may not realize there's any pun involved; "... a paws claws" may confuse a reader unfamiliar with such terms.[/nq]
Either would confuse me. I gathe

[nq:2] Perhaps it's a subsection of the sanity clause.[/nq]
[nq:1]LOL. Your comments indicate one of the difficulties with puns - the punning writer/speaker knows exactly what is meant but ... will know or know of the James Dean movie. -- Ian change mocker to rocker to Reply by email [/nq]

[nq:2]... The only "rule" is to give the reader the ... paws claws" may confuse a reader unfamiliar with such terms.[/nq]
[nq:1]Either would confuse me. I gather from the above that "a pause clause" is a phrase with some meaning in law, but I've never heard of it. Could somebody please explain it? Perhaps it's a subsection of the sanity clause.[/nq]
-- Season's Greetings Peter Duncanson

[nq:2] Either would confuse me. I gather from the above ... I've never heard of it. Could somebody please explain it?[/nq]
[nq:1]Perhaps it's a subsection of the sanity clause.[/nq]
LOL. Your comments indicate one of the difficulties with puns - the punning writer/speaker knows exactly what is meant but may "make up" things because of the availability of homophones.

AFAIK, there

[nq:1]AFAIK, there is no such thing as a "pause clause" - just made it up for an example. (After observing ... when written, and hope the reader applies the homophone. This is what happens with spoken puns of course. Many thanks.[/nq]
If what you say is true, then your example isn't a pun at all, IMO.

Unlike the classic Q : What's the difference between a sentence and a cat? A : A se

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[nq:1]If what you say is true, then your example isn't a pun at all, IMO. Unlike the classic Q : ... sentence has pauses at the ends of its clauses, but a cat has clawses at the ends of its pawses.[/nq]
Now that is clever. Nevertheless the Guinness Book of Words defines a pun as a play on words that sound the same (or similar) but have different meanings. (Often described as

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[nq:2]If what you say is true, then your example isn't ... a cat has clawses at the ends of its pawses.[/nq]
[nq:1]Now that is clever. Nevertheless the Guinness Book of Words defines a pun as a play on words that sound ... I wonder who said that? Someone having trouble thinking of any, I expect. Your example is more a riddle, IMO.[/nq]
Yes, I'd also heard that

[nq:2] in message ) Now that is clever. Nevertheless the ... any, I expect. Your example is more a riddle, IMO.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, I'd also heard that buns are the lowest form of wheat.[/nq]
I can barley believe that. -- Peg