Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The pun conundrum - BBC News








BBC News



The pun conundrum

BBC News

We may groan at puns as an acknowledgement that we have been outplayed by a speaker who has asserted his or her superiority over us. Sigmund Freud, by contrast, identified puns as an admission of weakness, a psychic release-valve in which humour ...





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