@slowenough yhe term FOR “word play” if it’s about trading insults is “flyting”. If the context is African American he might be witnessing toasts or the dozens.

@slowenough if Sikas is joining the fray to shut it down he might be eunabke to resist conciliation. If instead he is joking the fray to meet insults with praise, he is unable to resist encomium.

You are looking for terms from rhetoric, not linguistics.

@slowenough lol I was taking “word play” to mean “pun” which makes this conversation very meta!

@sundogplanets Scott Moe has got to go. As a Canadian I’ll happily support campaigns to rid our fine province of Saskatchewan from his leadership. Luckily Saskatchewans party and election finance laws are as broken as he is so it’s possible for folks from everywhere to help fund his defeat. I’ll […]

@slowenough “…resist an opportunity to be literal. “

@slowenough what do you mean? Use the term you’re looking for in a sentence…

Plain language?

@sillygwailo it’s as if cats were in charge of the Babelfish

@sundogplanets im not an academic and so my experience is more like the other commenters in this thread. The people that ask me for a reference are acknowledging a deep trust in our relationship. They know I will be honest and supportive and I will say no if I don’t know a person well enough but […]

@harold thanks for this read. Inspired this post. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/ai-and-the-need-for-your-authentic-voice/

@chad well here in the Vancouver area that’s called “winter” basically.