• @fishos
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    32 months ago

    This is why literature is dying. If it’s not literally, explicitly, no ambiguity at all stated, then it doesn’t exist. Have you never heard of what a pun is? It’s a literal play on words. Twisting them slightly for the sake of a joke.

    People can’t understand this and then they jump on Reddit/Lemmy and have “discussions” where they do the same shit and can’t grasp any nuance or thought deeper than surface level.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 months ago

          I mean, a it‘s not a play on words because the saying “la melange est la saveur/epice/piquant de la vie” just makes no sense. It’s not that I want things to be literal, it’s just that this particular “play on words” doesn’t even exist.

          • @TrickDacy
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            -72 months ago

            Do you also hate half rhymes? Words are fuzzy.

            • @angrystego
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              62 months ago

              It looks more like they can speak French.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 months ago

              a half rhyme sounds like a rhyme. You just have to not understand what the word means at all to think that a play on words is happening here.

              • @TrickDacy
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                -32 months ago

                Word play. Play doesn’t always have super strict rules 🙄

                • @[email protected]
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                  42 months ago

                  For a man in a an incredibly stylish yellow suit you are suprisingly obtuse. Admit that the original poster doesn’t understand French and his “word play” is stupid or I will throw coffee on your jacket and you will never get the stain out.

    • @[email protected]
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      02 months ago

      Maybe. I do read a lot. I’m so happy for my local library. I just don’t like platitudes.