[lit-ideas] Re: The Other Grice
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:44:32 +0100 (BST)
--- On Mon, 27/6/11, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>I wonder what
> sort of word play is meant.
Of whatever type, while there are many groansome puns there are many apt ones.
Pace Phil, some are even funny.
>But, although I have
> punned on Grice (it means
> "pig" in Scots) quite a bit, I do tend to think that
> they involve some
> rudeness to them -- especially punning on proper
> names -- PERSONAL proper
> names.
This may be so but surely no one, even on grounds of rudeness, would want to
render socially unacceptable a review of "Dream of The Blue Turtles" that ran,
"Sting, Where is Thy Death?"
Donal
Salop
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