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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Type of pun
Does anyone know what it's called when you make a sentence sound like another (usually nonsense) sentence without (really) changing the sounds? For example: 'I want you' and 'I won chew.'
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Pun: the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- Pun: the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
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Pun: the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
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