• Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    But then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”:

    Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.

    The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.