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...

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...

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...

"detachable sleeve", while its French etymon manchette means "cuff". Bilingual pun Hybrid word Inkhorn term Language contact Neologism Phono-semantic matching...

West Greenlandic Pidgin Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Barikanchi Pidgin Bilingual pun Camfranglais (Cameroon) Creole language Engrish Hiri Motu International...

Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...

"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...

Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...

poke"). However, it is an expressive loan of Russian d'ogot' "tar". Bilingual pun Eggcorn Hybrid word Hobson-Jobson Internationalism Language contact...

commonly observed among bilingual individuals who are highly skilled in both languages and is actually prevalent in numerous bilingual communities, contrary...

Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...

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...

bilingual education programs, teachers at local schools and members of the community often prefer using Spanish, destabilizing support for bilingual education...

Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...

cognitive structures underlying bilingualism. During the 1950s and 1960s, psychologists and linguists treated bilingual speakers as, in Grosjean's terms...

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:...

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...

(diglossía), from δί- (dí-, "two") and γλώσσα (glóssa, "language"), meant bilingualism; it was given its specialized meaning "two forms of the same language"...

Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...

language system in attempts for the city to receive public funding for bilingual situations. Heavy debate arose amongst members of congress, newscasters...

inability to select words from their mental vocabulary. Language in the bilingual brain is not completely separate, which is why code switching can and...

motivations, including euphemism, the principle of economy, specificity and bilingual punning. (The following examples come from the same source.) The English counterpart...

Germanic inflection due to Afrikaans. The Coloured community is generally bilingual. English accents are strongly influenced by primary mother-tongue, Afrikaans...

Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...

Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic...

Applied linguistics Back-translation Bible translations Bilingual dictionary Bilingual pun Bilingualism Bridge language Calque Certified translation Chinese...

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]...

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...

language is any expression using a mixture of languages, particularly bilingual puns or situations in which the languages are otherwise used in the same...

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...