A joke is something that is said, written, or done to cause
amusement or laughter. It could be a short piece or a long narrative
joke, but either way it ends in a punchline, where the joke contains a
second conflicting meaning.
Sometimes when we read a joke, we understand it directly and fully,
but this is not always the case. When a writer writes a joke, he intends
to manipulate the reader in a way that the reader doesn’t get the joke at
once. He does that by using pun on words or any other word play.
We, as listeners to the joke, try to get the message depending mostly
on the tone of the voice, in addition to other factors concerning
vocabulary and grammar. But as readers of the joke, we need more
other factors in order to get
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