Word play
Posted by TheFallen on October 16, 2002
In Reply to: Word play posted by ESC on October 16, 2002
: : : I am creating a series of photographs
that play on word meanings. For example: "sacrilegious" the image would be church
goers with paper sacks over their heads.
: : : I need to find more words or
phrases that would help with my series. Is this called anything in particular
? Any of your thoughts or ideas where to look would be help.
: : The Meanings and Origins section of this website has a long alphabetical list of phrases. Some of them could be illustrated with punning photos.
: My daughter the artist says:
: "Cutting ties.
: Finger nail.
: Club sandwich.
: Truck bed.
: We did a project like this for 3-D design last year, actually, where we built a model illustrating a word-play. It had to be both an interesting word-play and composition...make a list of words with double meanings, such as "seal" (a sea mammal, or seal as in "seal of approval"). Then expand on that."
English is a language that is, owing to its very varied multilingual roots, rich in pun potential. If you contrast this to other languages, in most cases, you'll find far less homonyms, with the very literal and precise Germans seeming to go out of their way to build longer and longer words, in almost Chinese-like ideogrammatical style, just to avoid any potential chance of confusion.
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