A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of...
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A pun, also known as a paronomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding...
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Tolkien's ambiguity (redirect from Tolkien's puns)
punning names to introduce ambiguity, as when a name like Mordor hints at murder. The name Orthanc, uniquely, is explicitly stated to be a bilingual pun...
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"detachable sleeve", while its French etymon manchette means "cuff". Bilingual pun Hybrid word Inkhorn term Language contact Neologism Phono-semantic matching...
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West Greenlandic Pidgin Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Barikanchi Pidgin Bilingual pun Camfranglais (Cameroon) Creole language Engrish Hiri Motu International...
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Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...
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"Yandex" as an easy way to remember "Yet Another iNDEXer". This is also a bilingual pun on "index" since "Я" ("ya") means "I" in Russian. On September 23, 1997...
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Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...
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poke"). However, it is an expressive loan of Russian d'ogot' "tar". Bilingual pun Eggcorn Hybrid word Hobson-Jobson Internationalism Language contact...
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Code-switching (section Bilingual advantage)
commonly observed among bilingual individuals who are highly skilled in both languages and is actually prevalent in numerous bilingual communities, contrary...
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Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...
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current name Das U-Boot adds a German definite article, to create a bilingual pun on the classic 1981 German submarine film Das Boot, which takes place...
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bilingual education programs, teachers at local schools and members of the community often prefer using Spanish, destabilizing support for bilingual education...
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Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...
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cognitive structures underlying bilingualism. During the 1950s and 1960s, psychologists and linguists treated bilingual speakers as, in Grosjean's terms...
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recording artist, composer, filmmaker and actor. His stage name is a bilingual pun on his first name, the English term for 'name' (Chinese: 名字; pinyin:...
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tower of Orthanc is unique in that it is explicitly stated to be a bilingual pun in The Two Towers: Tolkien gives the two meanings as "Mount Fang" in...
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(diglossía), from δί- (dí-, "two") and γλώσσα (glóssa, "language"), meant bilingualism; it was given its specialized meaning "two forms of the same language"...
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inability to select words from their mental vocabulary. Language in the bilingual brain is not completely separate, which is why code switching can and...
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Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...
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language system in attempts for the city to receive public funding for bilingual situations. Heavy debate arose amongst members of congress, newscasters...
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Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...
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Code-switching in Hong Kong (section Bilingual punning)
motivations, including euphemism, the principle of economy, specificity and bilingual punning. (The following examples come from the same source.) The English counterpart...
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Germanic inflection due to Afrikaans. The Coloured community is generally bilingual. English accents are strongly influenced by primary mother-tongue, Afrikaans...
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Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...
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directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard. The film's title is a bilingual pun intentionally meant to sound like "Faut rêver Mozart" ("Dream Mozart...
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Applied linguistics Back-translation Bible translations Bilingual dictionary Bilingual pun Bilingualism Bridge language Calque Certified translation Chinese...
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language is any expression using a mixture of languages, particularly bilingual puns or situations in which the languages are otherwise used in the same...
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Southeast Asians have more vernacular speech patterns. Ito (2010) looked at bilingual Hmong Americans in Wisconsin and found that local features like the low-back...
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is pronounced ba ba yi in Mandarin, and thus puns on "bye-bye." Probably an elaboration of the similar pun on "88" (ba-ba). See 88 (number).[citation needed]...
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