The covert, committed belief violated by puns is usually one of these.
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The ideal reaction from your audience after a pun is not laughter, but a miserable groan as if stabbed (right in the epistemic commitment)
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...and often that epistemic commitment is that you the teller are a basically sincere person and not a jerk who would toy with people
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@sarahdoingthing perhaps punning is akin to flirting1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Carefully/intuitively calibrated fake-attacking, kind of...social push-hands? I dunno, I am flirt-blind.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev I know you don't like it but I have a really hard time not doing it e.g. http://quietrev.com1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing autistic people, why are they so bad0 replies 0 retweets 3 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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