[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/china-media-watchdog-bans-wordplay-puns?CMP=twt_gu[/url]
[quote]From online discussions to adverts, Chinese culture is full of puns. But the country’s print and broadcast watchdog has ruled that there is nothing funny about them.It has banned wordplay on the grounds that it breaches the law on standard spoken and written Chinese, makes promoting cultural heritage harder and may mislead the public – especially children. The casual alteration of idioms risks nothing less than “cultural and linguistic chaos”, it warns.
Chinese is perfectly suited to puns because it has so many homophones. Popular sayings and even customs, as well as jokes, rely on wordplay.[/quote]
Use puns, get sent to the punitentiary!
So Facepunch circa 2012.
I'm glad to see our tradition of "They were never funny to begin with" is being adopted worldwide.
How the fuck would anyone NOT think this was and Onion article? This is absurd
lets be honest here, i didnt know rain wasnt cats and dogs until this past year, this is completely understandable
[QUOTE=Omali;46593809]So Facepunch circa 2012.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1180235[/url]
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Some fascist mod just deleted the thread. [url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:clmQgtnzj74J:facepunch.com/threads/1180235/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1180235%26p%3D35738409%26viewfull%3D1+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]Here's the cached version.[/url]
[QUOTE=Arthamus;46593854][url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1180235[/url][/QUOTE]
That was a good thread.
Seems like a justified punishment.
[QUOTE=Omali;46593809]So Facepunch circa 2012.[/QUOTE]
You can't spell Facepunch without pun.
[QUOTE=Arthamus;46593854][url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1180235[/url][/QUOTE]
How come I have never heard of the Pun Revolution of 2012! That was great.
[QUOTE=Arthamus;46593854][url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1180235[/url][/QUOTE]
I remember never understanding why something 99% of facepunch was ok with was bannable. It's like that now, too, sometimes. Facepunch is basically China.
Did they really just make a "no fun allowed" law?
[QUOTE=Arthamus;46593854][URL]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1180235[/URL][/QUOTE]
And then theres good old Austin Powers, is that bannable again or what?
Is china literally saying: "No Fun Allowed"?
What next, they're going to start limiting the average person's vocabulary?
If you aren't a prole, then this is doubleplusgood!
[QUOTE=Showgun;46594969]是的,我用谷歌翻译......婊子![/QUOTE]
ban this man for crimes against the state
[QUOTE=barrab;46593850]lets be honest here, i didnt know rain wasnt cats and dogs until this past year, this is completely understandable[/QUOTE]
That's an idiom you idiot.
[QUOTE=cdr248;46594901]Is china literally saying: "No [B]Pun[/B] Allowed"?[/QUOTE]
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This reminds me of a Felix the cat episode where a king declared there could be no puns made in his kingdom.
damn that show was weird goodness.
[QUOTE=Arthamus;46593854][url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1180235[/url][/QUOTE]
That thread was shit.
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Those damned fascist mods. Viva la revolution!
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Aw, all those martyrs gone in vain now
[QUOTE=echo78;46595236]That thread was [b]the[/b] shit.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Showgun;46594969]是的,我用谷歌翻译......婊子![/QUOTE]
As a native speaker, that sentence is beyond awkward :V
This happened after one too many jokes about Secretary General Wang Chen
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Postal's gone too far this time.
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Destroying evidence is a criminal offence.
The perfect thread to make a pun, out of all of SH, and my mind is blank
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