China Bans Puns

[The Minsky Moment]

I don't want to seem like the bull in the shop, but this is really dishing it out to pun lovers, making them take it on the chin.  Perhaps not everyone thinks that puns are the cat's mao. But there are more troubling proclivities out there: drinking tang, or obsessing over whether Han shot first for example.  Even those more conventional people who prefer wine, women, and Song should beware - one day the zhou may be on the other foot.

[Norgy]

Thank you for these puns of freedom. 

[Viking]

Given the number of homonyms in chinese puns are easy to make, especially political ones. It's a language made for animal farm style parodies. If you have a hundred different words that can be expressed well enough in english with "shi" I'm sure you can use the "thing called shi" to represent the "politician called shi" or the "idea called shi" or "the policy called shi".

It's way of being politically subversive while being unclear about if you actually are being politically subversive. Though, on the whole if your police scum can get you for using a pun they could probably do it for being subversive before hand. it feels pretty meaningless on the whole.

[Brazen]

Apparently 10 popular puns were put to the board to see if any would pass muster. But no pun in ten did.

[mongers]

Apparently 10 popular puns were put to the board to see if any would pass muster. But no pun in ten did.

This I like a lot.

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

 

[Sheilbh]

It's way of being politically subversive while being unclear about if you actually are being politically subversive. Though, on the whole if your police scum can get you for using a pun they could probably do it for being subversive before hand. it feels pretty meaningless on the whole.

Alas, yes. But a good start.

[Siege]

This is the punification of the chinese culture.

[Syt]

This is the punification of the chinese culture.

[Admiral Yi]

Apparently 10 popular puns were put to the board to see if any would pass muster. But no pun in ten did.

[Barrister]

Someone needs to go all PLA on this thread.

[Eddie Teach]

said BB, his lips curling in disgust.

[Norgy]

The punishment should fit the crime.

[Jacob]

The punishment should fit the crime.

Cry me a river.