Re: Blood Moon

John F. Eldredge wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:29:56 +0000 (UTC), Cally Soukup
<soukup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anna Mazzoldi <AnnaUsenet@xxxxxx> wrote in article <xn0eig2eytcz18001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Italian is not as flexible as English: Italians who like to play with
words often do that by resorting to other languages and to dialects.
I was at a convention this past weekend and spent some time talking
with the fan who is Curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory.
He said that while it's possible to make puns in Italian, if you do,
they just look at you funny; it's not considered a valid form of humor.
He also said there aren't any comparitives in Italian, so you can say
something is good or bad, but not better. Is all this true, or is he
just a lousy punster in Italian?

I would be surprised to find any language without puns.

It is impossible to do a proper pun in Loglan (<URL://www.loglan.org>), though one can be approximated.

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John W. Kennedy
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that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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