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Alfabet (1981) is a book-length poem using two reticulating systems: the alphabet (that adamic, prelapsarian state of language, as Roland Barthes suggests, because it is pre-word & pre-syntax, & thus before misuse, lying, rhetoric, polysemy are possible) & the Fibonacci series (where each number is the sum of the two previous ones, i.e.: 1,2,3,5,8,13,34,47,81,128 ...)— Nomadics
"Such a diversity of meanings presents a key challenge to science communications, so both scientists and journalists could benefit from a clear classification of the polysemy," the paper argues.— Lockergnome
If you want some fancy words for how puns can be created, consider homophony, homography, homonomy, or polysemy.— Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune
And I'm not even talking about polysemy, which is the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves.— Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
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