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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:57 am
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One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
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Mike.
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Maria Conlon
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:43 am
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No, but I found two sort-of-interesting anagrams:
VISCOUNTS EMPURPLE and CONSUL PRESUMPTIVE
Actually, I've never heard of there being a special word for "compulsive
punster." I hope there *is* one, as it would be fun to use.
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Spehro Pefhany
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Dick Chambers
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:57 am
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The doctor who went to Glörster and stepped in a puddle? Or am I getting in
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Mike Page
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:15 am
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| Quote: | One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
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My girls would tell you 'Dad'.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:36 am
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| Quote: | My girls would tell you 'Dad'.
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Mine are restrained from such disrespect only by the knowledge that
their brother is worse.
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:48 am
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Spehro Pefhany filted:
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Mike Lyle wrote:
One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
According to this web page:
http://www.worldsapartreview.com/words.htm ,
it is called "Förster's Syndrome", apparently after neurosurgeon
Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941). I guess he did his bit.
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He was probably tired of people axon him if he dendrite a paper on the
subject....r |
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:35 am
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Mike Lyle wrote:
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One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
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I think we'll have to coin it. I'm torn between "paronomasiac" and
"paronomaniac".
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:45 am
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:57:23 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
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Bore. |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:02 am
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Robert Lieblich wrote:
| Quote: | Mike Lyle wrote:
One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or
for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
I think we'll have to coin it. I'm torn between "paronomasiac" and
"paronomaniac".
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Hmm. "Paronomasomane" is a slightly more regular formation, but your
"Paronomaniac" is a much pleasanter word. I think your "paronomasiac"
lacks the implication of derangery. I, too, am torn.
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Richard Maurer
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:14 am
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Mike Lyle wrote:
One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning,
or for a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
Mustypuny?
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Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
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Jim Lewis
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:14 am
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Maria Conlon wrote:
| Quote: | Mike Lyle wrote:
One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
No, but I found two sort-of-interesting anagrams:
VISCOUNTS EMPURPLE and CONSUL PRESUMPTIVE
Actually, I've never heard of there being a special word for "compulsive
punster." I hope there *is* one, as it would be fun to use.
Maria Conlon
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Dunno, but it's bound to be punful.
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Laura F. Spira
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:46 pm
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Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
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That'd be Michael/Mike in my experience.
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dobey the elf
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:07 am
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Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
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Euripedes might...
"Books by Euripides
"The sure sign of the general decline of an art," says Macaulay, "is
the frequent occurence, not of deformity, but of misplaced beauty. In
general tragedy is corrupted by eloquence." This symptom is especially
conspicuous in Euripides, who is constantly sacrificing propriety for
rhetorical display; so that we are sometimes in doubt whether we are
reading the lines of a poet or the speeches of an orator. Yet it is
this very quality which has in all ages made him a much greater
favorite than Aeschylus or Sophocles; it is this which made
tragi-comedy so easy and natural under his treatment; which recommended
him to Menander as the model for his new comedy, and to Quintilian as
the model for oratory. In the middle ages he was far better known than
his two great contemporaries; for this was an era when scholastic
subtleties were mistaken for eloquence, minute distinctions for
science, and verbal quibbles for proficiency in dramatic art. Pitiable
also is his habit of punning, as in the Bacchae, where his Greek may be
rendered, "Take heed lest Pentheus makes your mansion a pent-house of
grief." "
www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/euripides001.html
After all, he might have been the first Greek to make a Play on words?
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highstep
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:46 am
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On 28 Apr 2005 15:07:00 -0700, dobey the elf <dobeygjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Mike Lyle wrote:
One of my girls is sure there's a word for compulsive punning, or for
a compulsive punster. Anybody know it?
Euripedes might...
"Books by Euripides
"The sure sign of the general decline of an art," says Macaulay, "is
the frequent occurence, not of deformity, but of misplaced beauty. In
general tragedy is corrupted by eloquence." This symptom is especially
conspicuous in Euripides, who is constantly sacrificing propriety for
rhetorical display; so that we are sometimes in doubt whether we are
reading the lines of a poet or the speeches of an orator. Yet it is
this very quality which has in all ages made him a much greater
favorite than Aeschylus or Sophocles; it is this which made
tragi-comedy so easy and natural under his treatment; which recommended
him to Menander as the model for his new comedy, and to Quintilian as
the model for oratory. In the middle ages he was far better known than
his two great contemporaries; for this was an era when scholastic
subtleties were mistaken for eloquence, minute distinctions for
science, and verbal quibbles for proficiency in dramatic art. Pitiable
also is his habit of punning, as in the Bacchae, where his Greek may be
rendered, "Take heed lest Pentheus makes your mansion a pent-house of
grief." "
www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/euripides001.html
After all, he might have been the first Greek to make a Play on words?
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Mike.
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we will never know
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Highstep
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