Talk:Wordplay

What on earth is "A incolomity " ???

There are a lot of personal names matching "Colom".

Encolomnity might mean a kind of poem where the words are aligned in "columns", as in a table or spreadsheet. Wimbledon32 (talk) 03:29, 19 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Before (prose):

Hunter/Gatherer: harvests what he does not sow. Farmer: harvests what he does sow.

Before (poem):

Hunter/Gatherer: harvests what he does not sow.

Farmer: harvests what he does sow.

After encolomnisation:

Hunter/Gatherer: harvests what he does not sow.

Farmer_ _ _ _ _: harvests what he does _ _ sow.

See how similarities and differences are emphasized. Wimbledon32 (talk) 03:29, 19 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

See wiktionary:incolumity meaning safety, uninjured, secure.

Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work.--suggests that word play only exists where the words are the *subject* rather than the *medium*.

All writers engage in word play to some extent--contradicts this.

James Joyce--whose Ulysses, and even more so, his Finnegans Wake, are filled with brilliant writing and brilliant word play--and this is just flagrantly POV.

LogicalDash
Barbara Shack 14:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)The words can be the subject As well as the medium.Reply
Barbara Shack 16:40, 22 )I had to put David in as well. Having only a woman displaying herself is Politically Incorrect.

I don't think the Joyce bit is POV. You just need a citation, as virtually every scholar will agree on this. Anyway, even if you think there's no way this isn't POV, we must tell people that Joyce's word play is the focus of Finnegans Wake much more than any other book ever written ( until then ). --187.54.98.138 (talk) 20:45, 8 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

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