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One of his regular bits is taking words and offering alternative humorous definitions for them. (e.g. "'Asinine': I'll give her face a three and her asinine.") Should there be some sort of link between his article and this one? Or is there some more general article that they should both link to
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For example: Translate the word "unbearable" into German. One correct translation would be "unerträglich". A "daffynition" might be "unentbehrlich" (English: "essential", "indispensible", so just about the opposite): (Mis)take the word part "bear" as meaning the substantive - and then replace its
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Just a thought: Many daffynitions might be unintentional, thus not always intended to be a pun upon something, but rather from "folk etymology", i.e. erroneous conjecture about the origins of a word or the like. But would errors or puns resulting from bad translation also fall into that category?
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I see in the edit section that editors are asked to add no more definitions to this list as 'it is long enough already'. Do other editors agree with this because I don't. Where else on the WWW is there a definitive list of all these? I am sure all ISIHAC fans would like to see such a thing. But I
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really the best title for this article? I've never heard it used outside this article and it doesn't sound entirely, er, encyclopaedic. I have no suggestions for a better title off the top of my head and I'm quite prepared to back down if it turns out that the rest of the world is of a different
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I believe the pretzel entry is not a pun or play on words, as such I am removing it. (for the record it says "pretzel: Edible handcuffs"). This is more of a humorous observation that they look like handcuffs, and not like the rest of the entries.
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yep, Kay is a jewelry store, and in their ads the couple ends up kissing after the man presents some piece of Kay jewelry. every kiss begins with Kay . Kay sounds like 'k', so every kiss begins with the letter 'k'.
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Some years ago the Royal Navy decided to introduce women abpoard its ships, whicj led to the rather funny pun, 'Britannia waives the Rules'. To my memory the nicest pun I ever came across.
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The link at the bottom to "Daffynitions" has many more along these lines like chicken - the animal you can eat before and after death. These aren't daffynitions, eh?
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