When someone says "no pun intended", what do they mean?

Answer 1

Pun means: "A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. "
Thus a phrase may have several different meanings depending upon the context in which it is used.Comedians often intentionally use phrases with double meanings(Puns), to create comic effects.If this is done accidentally,then that would be a case of no pun being intended.

Answer 2

A pun is a word that is being deliberately used to have two different meanings that BOTH make sense in a given sentence.

For example "The valuable dog was still missing, believed stolen, however the police announced they have a lead"

Now sometimes, people say sentences all the time where a word can have two different meanings that make total sense (sometimes agree and support each other), but they didn't intend for the pun to be in the sentence - so they say "no pun intended"

Answer 3

It means that someone has said something that can be taken as a pun, but that that was not what the speaker intended. Most of the time when someone says, "No pun intended," they are letting others know that they are not trying to make light of a serious situation.

Answer 4

A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Bad puns are sometimes called "cheesy".

Walter Redfern (in Puns, Blackwell, London, 1984) succinctly said: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms".

In order to be able to pun effectively it is necessary that a language must include homonyms which may readily be misrepresented as synonyms. Languages with complex gender or case structures tend not to facilitate this, although puns can be constructed in all languages with varying degrees of difficulty; i.e. puns are said to be easy to construct in languages such as Chinese or English, but rarer in Russian.

they mean they didnt intend to make what they said into a pun

Answer 5

It means they accidentally made a pun.

Answer 6

some things have double meanings that may have sexual over or undertones. if a person says something that may have a double meaning, they want you to realize they did nit mean for you to take it in a way that may be sexually/racially offensive

Answer 7

trying to see if you is listening, have you heard man

Answer 8

:)