Similarly, the joke "Question: Why do we still have troops in Germany? Answer: To keep the Russians in Czech" relies on the aural ambiguity of the homophones check and Czech.
Walter Redfern summarized this type with his statement, "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms." For example, in George Carlin's phrase "atheism is a non-prophet institution", the word prophet is put in place of its homophone profit, altering the common phrase " non-profit institution". See also: Homophonic puns in Standard ChineseĪ homophonic pun is one that uses word pairs which sound alike ( homophones) but are not synonymous.
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