Delightful! Unfortunately, relatively few native speakers can play "ping pong punning" like the very smart set that David describes in his amusing conclusion.
Brilliant Professor. Brilliant Linguist. Brillisnat Discourse. Play with the words a nice suggestions. Pun is interesting. Thanks. V.Chandra Sekhara Rao
I wonder if other cultures have an equivalent of our Mexican "albur", which is basically this concept of "ping pong punning": speaker A says a word that triggers an "albur" (a wordplay joke) in order to insult speaker B, going back and forth. "Huele a obo"...
Page 63 foolish or -ed? Cartoons by Edward McLachlan ber|se-kong-kol = united (-ve conotation) My father H. M. N. B. A. love English language. This book is his.
"What's your favourite disease?" Very smart, Professor.
My favorite linguist. Love and respect from Egypt, professor Crystal.
What a cool Linguist! Professor David Crystal rocks!!! :-)
Awesome.He is smart and great
same here, my fave part of every language are puns and wittiness that can be expressed in that particular language.
Thanks a lot professor David cristal for each class 🤔
Thank you professor David crystal for your speeches on language English
Thanks professor ! I like hear of your's story about language .
I like this speaking and all video
Delightful!
Unfortunately, relatively few native speakers can play "ping pong punning" like the very smart set that David describes in his amusing conclusion.
It used to be the highlight of the week in our teacher's room at BC in Bangkok!
Thanks a lot, professor.
such an inspiring learned man!!!
Brilliant Professor. Brilliant Linguist. Brillisnat Discourse. Play with the words a nice suggestions. Pun is interesting. Thanks. V.Chandra Sekhara Rao
I'd never expected to learn about puns in a linguistics class. The more you know.
the wisest man
LET'S NOT FORGET SADDAM HUSSEIN'S CONTRIBUTION
"THE MOTHER OF ALL BATTLES"
inspiring
This guy would be very pleased on 9gag :D
I just leave this here: "I am of knowings..."
I love to contort the vowels
Where can I watch the whole video?
I wonder if other cultures have an equivalent of our Mexican "albur", which is basically this concept of "ping pong punning": speaker A says a word that triggers an "albur" (a wordplay joke) in order to insult speaker B, going back and forth.
"Huele a obo"...
01:37 Yes weekendXD
4:51 "The topic became our pussy cats", I'm only imagining what would be the puns. 😂😂😂😂
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foolish or -ed?
Cartoons by Edward McLachlan
ber|se-kong-kol = united (-ve conotation)
My father H. M. N. B. A. love English language. This book is his.
Very interesting subject and this is the top geezer in it.
English Nationalist ........... White Lives Matter....