Originally Posted by indigo
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Rolleing right along in Calculus.
While enjoying this, it also brings to mind a recent story from world news. Have you seen any of the news articles announcing that China has banned puns? This is not a humor rumor, evidently some believe that word play may mislead children and bring about cultural and linguistic chaos.
A ban clearly doomed to failure, given the pervasive nature of punning in Chinese. Note the comment late in the article speculating that this is a preemptive strike on political commentary.

And word play requires some significant metalinguistic skills--something one would expect is to be cultivated in children.

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...