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What is the appeal of this comic?
durao:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 16 Sep 2008, 16:14 ---Jeph claims to hate puns, but he throws so many in there...
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Until the moment I could not decipher the meaning of the word PUNS
Will someone (finally) tell me what it means?
skylinetrain:
Dictionary.com Unabridged
pun /pʌn/ [puhn] noun,
verb, punned, pun·ning.
–noun
1. 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.
2. the word or phrase used in this way
–verb (used without object)
3. to make puns.
[Origin: 1655–65; perh. special use of pun, var. (now dial.) of pound1, i.e., to mistreat (words)]
It is both startling and interesting that the linguistic pronunciation key of "pun" looks quite like "pwn." A connection? I think yes.
gardenhead_:
except that 'pwn' came from the mispelling of 'own', which only shares the letter 'n' with 'pun'. I'm not seeing the connection.
bbqrocks:
--- Quote ---It is both startling and interesting that the linguistic pronunciation key of "pun" looks quite like "pwn." A connection? I think yes.
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No, there really, really, isn't. 'own' and 'pun' have nothing in particular, and 'pwn' (meaning) has nothing to do with 'pun' (meaning).
Is it cold in here?:
For me, it's partly the characters and partly the occasional brilliant dialog and humor. Things like #616 are harder to write than they look, #787 combines a gentle warmth with a certain amount of cuckooness, and every now and then Jeph will take something that is funny to begin with and add a twist.
For example, 1094 has Penne-lope asking Dora to delay Faye's execution long enough for her to make popcorn. That's funny. But in the last panel of 1095 she's in the background silently eating popcorn. That's genius. Jeph succeeded with the same maneuver in 1089/1090, where you have to be looking at Dr. Buenvenida's corkboard to notice that she really did need to go ahead with the colored string.
It's highly quotable.
The characters mostly feel like real people.
That's just me.
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