As the saying goes, analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog—it kills the frog and it’s not much fun for you, either.
Yeah, i found out the hard way. Took up ridiculously ambitious projects to teach a program to differentiate semantic and/or homographic puns vs non- puns.. Ofcourse, failed spectacularly, and only while writing it up did i realize why that was a bad experimental design in the first place. To paraphrase, HPMOR, “It(the plot) required more than 5 things to go right to work” :-P
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