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* ''VideoGame/ABearsNightOut'': If you try to remove your night shirt, you'll get the text: "Why change the habit of a lifetime?", using "habit" both in the sense of "tendency" and its older sense of "attire".
* ''VideoGame/EatMe'': A couple instances of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis antanaclasis]]:
** In the intro text, the narrator describes a lack of dinner as a "mean repast by the meanest measure". The first "mean" is meant in the sense of "ungenerous", while the one in "meanest" is meant in the sense of "unkind".
** If the player persists in eating the mound of filth, the narrator comments:
--->Whatever's gotten into you, my dear, I couldn't guess. Now more filth's gotten into you, at any rate, as you swallow what's in your mouth again.
::::The first "gotten into you" is meant figuratively, while the second is meant literally.
* ''VideoGame/ABearsNightOut'': If you try to remove your night shirt, you'll get the text: "Why change the habit of a lifetime?", using "habit" both in the sense of "tendency" and its older sense of "attire".
* ''VideoGame/EatMe'': A couple instances of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis antanaclasis]]:
** In the intro text, the narrator describes a lack of dinner as a "mean repast by the meanest measure". The first "mean" is meant in the sense of "ungenerous", while the one in "meanest" is meant in the sense of "unkind".
** If the player persists in eating the mound of filth, the narrator comments:
--->Whatever's gotten into you, my dear, I couldn't guess. Now more filth's gotten into you, at any rate, as you swallow what's in your mouth again.
::::The first "gotten into you" is meant figuratively, while the second is meant literally.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': In "[[Recap/HazbinHotelS1E2RadioKilledTheVideoStar Radio Killed the Video Star]]", Vox sings about Alastor, "Now his medium is getting bloody rare!" This is referring to Alastor's medium of radio becoming "rare" as in "scarce", with "bloody" being used as an intensifier. The sentence also has meat-related meanings which are expressed through a VisualPun of Vox pulling a deer head out of an oven -- "medium" and "rare" as in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doneness doneness]] levels for meat, and "bloody" as in literally bloody, which rare meat looks like.
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The problem with puns is that they are seen as the lowest form of humor, (although poetry is [[SelfDemonstratingArticle verse]]), and often [[SelfDemonstratingArticle are not very punny]], at least in English - at best, they're SoBadItsGood. On the other hand, languages such as Chinese or Japanese, where words can be chosen for sound, character, or meaning, allow for puns of incredible complexity, working on multiple levels, and they are often viewed as an art form.
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The problem with puns is that they are seen as the lowest form of humor, (although poetry {{poetry}} is [[SelfDemonstratingArticle verse]]), and often [[SelfDemonstratingArticle are not very punny]], at least in English - at best, they're SoBadItsGood. On the other hand, languages such as Chinese or Japanese, where words can be chosen for sound, character, or meaning, allow for puns of incredible complexity, working on multiple levels, and they are often viewed as an art form.
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* OneLetterPun:OneLetterPun: A pun using words that sounds like a single letter, such as the word "bee" for the letter B or the word "eye" sounding like the letter I.
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Capitalization was fixed from Main.Snow Clones to Main.Snowclones. Null edit to update index.
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The stigma against puns in the English language is a contemporary attitude. Within historic fiction, esteemed authors pun freely including in situations that modern tastes would regard as most inappropriate. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens has Ebenezer Scrooge tell the ghost of Jacob Marley "There's more of gravy than of grave about you," and Shakespeare uses a similar pun in Romeo and Juliet where Mercutio is fatally wounded (3.1.94-95) yet plays on the different noun and adjectival meanings of grave with "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." Even prim and proper Jane Austen gives Mary Crawford the line, "Certainly, my home at my uncle’s brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears and Vices, I saw enough," in Mansfield Park, leaving later generations of readers wondering whether Crawford is talking about different ranks of admirals or [[https://notchesblog.com/2018/12/13/rears-and-vices-the-austens-and-naval-sodomy/ something else]]. Each of those examples reveals something within the larger context of the work: Scrooge puns when seeing the first ghost because he thinks the apparition is a hallucination caused by a bad meal, Mercutio is upbeat and witty concealing the seriousness of his wounds, and Mary Crawford's speech foreshadows that her wealth and connections have not really made her genteel.
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The stigma against puns in the English language is a contemporary attitude. Within historic fiction, esteemed authors pun freely including in situations that modern tastes would regard as most inappropriate. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens has Ebenezer Scrooge tell the ghost of Jacob Marley "There's more of gravy than of grave about you," and Shakespeare uses a similar pun in Romeo and Juliet where Mercutio is fatally wounded (3.1.94-95) yet plays on the different noun and adjectival meanings of grave with "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." Even prim and proper Jane Austen gives Mary Crawford the line, "Certainly, my home at my uncle’s brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears and Vices, I saw enough," in Mansfield Park, leaving later generations of readers wondering whether Crawford is talking about different ranks of admirals or [[https://notchesblog.com/2018/12/13/rears-and-vices-the-austens-and-naval-sodomy/ something else]]. Each of those examples reveals something within the larger context of the work: Scrooge puns when seeing the first ghost because he thinks the apparition is a hallucination caused by a bad meal, Mercutio is upbeat and witty concealing the seriousness of his wounds, wounds (alternatively he is panicking at having just been mortally wounded, and he is desperately trying to hide his fear with a joke), and Mary Crawford's speech foreshadows that her wealth and connections have not really made her genteel.
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* TomSwifty: A punny adverb when attributing a quotation, based on the content of the quotation.
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* TomSwifty: A punny adverb when attributing a quotation, based on sprung from the content line of the quotation.dialogue it tags.
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For trope names that are puns go to JustForPun. For tropes that are pun names of other tropes, you want {{Snowclones}}.
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For trope names that are puns go to JustForPun.JustForFun/PunnyTropeNames. For tropes that are pun names of other tropes, you want {{Snowclones}}.
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* JustForPun: [[Justforfun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will ruin your lines,]] JustForFun.
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Puns are challenging to recreate in another language when a work is subtitled, dubbed, or translated. The translator may have to use a different example to get a pun in the new language. In some cases in novels, the translators can't recreate the pun, so they put a footnote.[[note]]The footnote explains how in the non-English original, the author had created a brilliant pun, and it explains what the pun referred to.[[/note]]
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The problem with puns is that they are the lowest form of humor, (although poetry is [[SelfDemonstratingArticle verse]]), and often [[SelfDemonstratingArticle are not very punny]], at least in English - at best, they're SoBadItsGood. On the other hand, languages such as Chinese or Japanese, where words can be chosen for sound, character, or meaning, allow for puns of incredible complexity, working on multiple levels, and they are often viewed as an art form.
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The problem with puns is that they are seen as the lowest form of humor, (although poetry is [[SelfDemonstratingArticle verse]]), and often [[SelfDemonstratingArticle are not very punny]], at least in English - at best, they're SoBadItsGood. On the other hand, languages such as Chinese or Japanese, where words can be chosen for sound, character, or meaning, allow for puns of incredible complexity, working on multiple levels, and they are often viewed as an art form.
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* StealthPun: An extremely subtle joke (typically a pun) that is not [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] in the work to any extent.
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* StealthPun: An extremely subtle joke (typically a pun) that is not [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] {{lampshaded|trope}} in the work to any extent.
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* JustForPun: [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will ruin your lines,]] JustForFun.
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* JustForPun: [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife [[Justforfun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will ruin your lines,]] JustForFun.
