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.
Brilliant Professor. Brilliant Linguist. Brillisnat Discourse. Play with the words a nice suggestions. Pun is interesting. Thanks. V.Chandra Sekhara Rao
"What's your favourite disease?" Very smart, Professor.
the wisest man
01:37 Yes weekendXD
My favorite linguist. Love and respect from Egypt, professor Crystal.
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!
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What a cool Linguist! Professor David Crystal rocks!!! :-)
same here, my fave part of every language are puns and wittiness that can be expressed in that particular language.
I'd never expected to learn about puns in a linguistics class. The more you know.
I like this speaking and all video
Where can I watch the whole video?
Awesome.He is smart and great
Thanks professor ! I like hear of your's story about language .
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"...
such an inspiring learned man!!!
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.
inspiring
4:51 "The topic became our pussy cats", I'm only imagining what would be the puns. 😂😂😂😂
Brilliant Professor. Brilliant Linguist. Brillisnat Discourse. Play with the words a nice suggestions. Pun is interesting. Thanks. V.Chandra Sekhara Rao
Thank you professor David crystal for your speeches on language English
Thanks a lot professor David cristal for each class 🤔
Thanks a lot, professor.
I love to contort the vowels
Very interesting subject and this is the top geezer in it.
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