Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles
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Re: Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles
#12It would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put "trips" in there, and I got: - List of largest cruise trips List of largest cruise ships - Trips Industries, Tips Industries What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns. A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.
You need to put in a funny word for it to be something that resembles a pun
Re: Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles
#13It would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put "trips" in there, and I got: - List of largest cruise trips List of largest cruise ships - Trips Industries, Tips Industries What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns. A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.
You need to put in a funny word for it to be something that resembles a pun
That's certainly desirable but I'm not sure I'd call it a requirement? For example, if someone asks "We volunteered for this; who else did?" and you reply "Us two", that seems like a fairly uncontroversial pun with "Us too", but it's not particularly funny.
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#14This was a great opportunity to enter a pun contest, so I generated 10 of them and sent them in as entries. When I asked who had won, they told me: "No pun in ten did."
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#15A pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word. What you have here is a rhyming phrase generator.
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#16Simple & fun. Well done.
Note for others asking how it works: this generates simple puns based off of rhymes. Many potential puns won't make sense. But if you were, say, writing an article about finding a bread recipe for the fall, the tool's suggestion of "Hunt for the Bread October" would be a good pun.
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#17It would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put "trips" in there, and I got: - List of largest cruise trips List of largest cruise ships - Trips Industries, Tips Industries What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns. A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.
Linguists don't tell puns. They cant.
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#18Fun site, but I encountered what seems to be a bug.
It 500s for the word "bill" and (after some further testing) with "kill", "thrill", "will", "still", "fill" and "phil".
It worked with "infill" (no results), but not "refill".
Any clue what is going on here?
Re: Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles
#19It would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put "trips" in there, and I got: - List of largest cruise trips List of largest cruise ships - Trips Industries, Tips Industries What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns. A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.
>A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.
There are other sorts of puns than that but also, 'Trips Industries, Tips Industries' is a decent pun if you know anything about the trips industry. I agree that this is identifying rhymes, so essentially it's doing half the job and then you have to use context to understand if it's a valid pun or not.
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#20They have been using guns