Jokes - Morphology

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Jokes (taken from Victoria Fromkin, An Introduction to Language

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Jokes(taken from Victoria Fromkin, An Introduction to LanguageThe lack of pauses between words in speech has provided humorists with much material. The comical hosts of the show Car Talk, aired on National Public Radio, close the show by reading a list of credits that includes the following cast of characters!n all these instances, you would have to have knowledge of "nglish words to make sense of and #nd humor in such plays on words. Copyeditor $deline %oore (add a line more& Accounts payable !needa '(ech (! need a check& Pollution control %aury %issions (more emissions& Purchasing )ois *idder (lowest bidder& Statistician %arge !nnovera (margin of error& Russian chaufeur +icov $ndropov (pick up and drop o,& Legal frm -ewey, 'heetham, and .owe/ (-o we cheat 0em1 $nd how/2! never heard of 34gli#cation,05 $lice ventured to say. 26hat is it15 The 7ryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 28ever heard of uglifying/5 it e9claimed. 2:ou know what to beautify is, ! suppose15 2:es,5 said $lice doubtfully 2it means;to make;prettier.5 26ell, then,5 the 7ryphon went on, 2if you don0t know what to uglify is, you are a simpleton.5)"6!< '$RR=)), Alices Adventures in Wonderland, 1865+ullet a young hen (less than one year old&