Brilliant Professor. Brilliant Linguist. Brillisnat Discourse. Play with the words a nice suggestions. Pun is interesting. Thanks. V.Chandra Sekhara Rao
Delightful! Unfortunately, relatively few native speakers can play "ping pong punning" like the very smart set that David describes in his amusing conclusion.
I wonder if other cultures have an equivalent of our Mexican "albur", which is basically this concept of "ping pong punning": speaker A says a word that triggers an "albur" (a wordplay joke) in order to insult speaker B, going back and forth. "Huele a obo"...
Page 63 foolish or -ed? Cartoons by Edward McLachlan ber|se-kong-kol = united (-ve conotation) My father H. M. N. B. A. love English language. This book is his.
My favorite linguist. Love and respect from Egypt, professor Crystal.
"What's your favourite disease?" Very smart, Professor.
What a cool Linguist! Professor David Crystal rocks!!! :-)
Awesome.He is smart and great
Thanks a lot professor David cristal for each class 🤔
Thanks professor ! I like hear of your's story about language .
Thank you professor David crystal for your speeches on language English
same here, my fave part of every language are puns and wittiness that can be expressed in that particular language.
Brilliant Professor. Brilliant Linguist. Brillisnat Discourse. Play with the words a nice suggestions. Pun is interesting. Thanks. V.Chandra Sekhara Rao
Delightful!
Unfortunately, relatively few native speakers can play "ping pong punning" like the very smart set that David describes in his amusing conclusion.
It used to be the highlight of the week in our teacher's room at BC in Bangkok!
I like this speaking and all video
such an inspiring learned man!!!
Thanks a lot, professor.
LET'S NOT FORGET SADDAM HUSSEIN'S CONTRIBUTION
"THE MOTHER OF ALL BATTLES"
I'd never expected to learn about puns in a linguistics class. The more you know.
the wisest man
I wonder if other cultures have an equivalent of our Mexican "albur", which is basically this concept of "ping pong punning": speaker A says a word that triggers an "albur" (a wordplay joke) in order to insult speaker B, going back and forth.
"Huele a obo"...
inspiring
I love to contort the vowels
4:51 "The topic became our pussy cats", I'm only imagining what would be the puns. 😂😂😂😂
Where can I watch the whole video?
01:37 Yes weekendXD
Page 63
foolish or -ed?
Cartoons by Edward McLachlan
ber|se-kong-kol = united (-ve conotation)
My father H. M. N. B. A. love English language. This book is his.
Very interesting subject and this is the top geezer in it.
English Nationalist ........... White Lives Matter....