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| Topic | Ace Attorney Topic Part 4: The Happening (Spoilers for AA1-6, AAI1-2) |
| LeonhartFour 04/13/18 2:19:38 AM #420: | NeoElfboy posted... You may pronounce words in your head but you also see other ways those letters could be arranged (particularly across word borders) or pronounced, which allows wordplay opportunities. It's been years since I've studied literature but I definitely know poetry makes use of this technique as well. Yes, but this sort of wordplay still requires some sense of how to pronounce the word to get the intended effect. You're even saying as much in how you're trying to explain how it's a "visual" pun. You're not getting "Jock" out of "Jacques" without knowing how to pronounce it the way they want you to say it, and the pun is entirely based on how you say it, which is why I didn't get it at first. A visual pun is seeing something with no words and understanding what it's "saying" non-verbally. https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/punny-pixels-illustrated-puns-visual-wordplay/ like if you're using words at all it's not a visual pun (unless it's something like pointing out how the word "bed" looks like a bed), which is why I was so confused by you insisting name puns are visual puns --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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