Max Beerbohm Puns

In a 19th century British context, the paper-hanger is the "nonconformist conscience." http://thisnortheasternlife.blogspot.com/2015/11/quote-of-the-day-for-2015-11-18.html

["Alas, poor Ozone! I knew him, Sickboy: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."] http://thisnortheasternlife.blogspot.com/2016/01/quote-of-day-for-2016-01-27.html

Here's a list of books, stories, and essays involving linguistics, language, and communication, taken from the comments for 5 reddit posts asking of books involving linguistics (including one post from r/linguistics), a Goodreads list, this list from a linguistic (includes lots of great nonfiction resources as well), and from the sf-encyclopedia on linguistics. Here are links to Wikipedia's articles for linguistic relativity (the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, although this is considered a basically disproven hypothesis) and conceptual metaphor (largely championed by George Lakoff; see Metaphors We Live By). Both are pretty relevant for fiction that explores how language might shape our thinking.

The list is organized by how frequently an author or work was mentioned from my 8 sources. I proceed each with how many they were mentioned in, so that number should roughly reflect how relevant an author or work is to the linguistics theme and how popular the work is. I've included basically everything mentioned, since I haven't read most of these, so that does mean some of them may only be loosely related to linguistics, or just do something that's interesting with language. I've included comments with the ones I have read on how much it actually incorporates linguistics.

• 8: Ted Chiang
  • 8: Story of your Life (short story)
    • An iconic story, this is what's generally given as an example in the Reddit posts for what's being looked for. Also the basis for the movie Arrival.
  • 72 Letters (short story)
    • A little bit of a stretch, perhaps. Written names animate golems, with the name determining their attributes.
  • The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
    • About communication methods and memory, such as speech verse writing, so very relevant depending on how loosely you take the linguistic theme.
• 8: Suzette Haden-Elgin (Linguist)
  • 8: Native Tongue Series
    • Includes a dictionary created for the women's language: https://laadanlanguage.com/
  • Coyoted Jones series
  • The Ozark Trilogy
  • The Judas Rose
  • Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series (nonfiction)
• 7: China Mieville
  • 7: Embassytown
  • The Scar (book 2 of the Bas-Lag series)
• 7: Sam

These lists are collected from Project Gutenberg which is a great source for free ebooks in the public domain on a wide variety of topics. I sort through books there to make lists based on various topics so it's easier to find something interesting.

I highly recommend checking out the lists of cookbooks below as well.

• 1 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• 2 The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens
• 3 The Chimes by Charles Dickens
• 4 A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Herbert W. Collingwood et al.
• 5 The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• 6 Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
• 7 The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
• 8 The Children's Book of Christmas Stories by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner
• 9 Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving
• 10 The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For Children by Various
• 11 A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
• 12 Christmas Stories And Legends by Phebe A. Curtiss
• 13 A Little Book of Christmas by John Kendrick Bangs
• 14 Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
• 15 The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
• 16 The Christmas Angel by Abbie Farwell Brown
• 17 The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story by Alcott
• 18 A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm
• 19 Christmas: Its Origin and Associations by W. F. Dawson
• 20 The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
• 21 [Bertha

Anyone can recommend such authors or books? Thank you.

I have read Don Quixote, The Screwtape Letters, and Heart of a Dog. These all fall into the genre I am looking for……

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Mentos

(I will see myself out)

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

But let me give it a shot.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

He’s the new temp.

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.